Kaushal Rege is Profesor and Director, Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation (CBIT), in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (ASU), and is member of the graduate faculty of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biological Design, Materials Science and Engineering, and School of Molecular Sciences. He also chairs the Biological Design Graduate Program at ASU. He completed his doctorate in Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and went on to postdoctoral research at the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

Research in the Rege laboratory in at the forefront of biomaterial and nanomateirals innovation for tissue repair, wound healing and cancer. Rege has made notable progress with photothermal nanomaterials, using them with polymers and polypeptides to repair body tissues. His research findings have major implications for diabetic wounds and skin injuried, repair and regeneration of ruptured intestines, and melanoma.

His work has attracted funding from the the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Defense Threat Recution Agency, Flinn Foundation, and the Mayo Clinic. In recent years, his research findings have been featured in several leading science and engineering news publications, including Scientific American. He was elected as Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE) in 2017, received the New Investigator Award from the American Society of Photobiology in 2014 and a Young Investigator Award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. His mentees have gone on to successful careers in academia and industry.