Dr. Joshua Mauney is a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Urology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He holds the Jerry D. Choate Presidential Endowed Chair in Urology Tissue Engineering. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Biotechnology Engineering from Tufts University. Dr. Mauney comes to UCI from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital where he led a translational research group for 12 years as faculty. At UCI, Dr. Mauney’s laboratory focuses on the development and evaluation of silk fibroin grafts for the repair of visceral hollow organs including the bladder, urethra and the esophagus. He also specializes in the creation of novel large animal models of urinary tract disease for preclinical medical device testing. Dr. Mauney also performs mechanistic studies to determine key signaling pathways involved in tissue regeneration and disease progression within the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts. Dr. Mauney has been continuously funded from the National Institutes of Health since 2011 and has been the Principal Investigator on various R01 and R21 awards. Dr. Mauney has also authored >50 international peer-reviewed journal publications. Dr. Mauney’s contributions to education at UCI includes teaching core graduate courses within the Biomedical Engineering Department including BME240: Introduction to Clinical Medicine and BME210: Molecular and Cellular Engineering as well as training clinician-scientists in surgical research.