Dr. Ameer is the Daniel Hale Williams professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery at Northwestern University. He is the founding director of the Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE), director of the NIH-funded Regenerative Engineering Training Program (RE-Training), Deputy Editor at Science Advances, a journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and founding director of the Querrey Simpson Institute for Regenerative Engineering at Northwestern University (RENU). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Ameer’s laboratory pioneered the development and tissue regeneration applications of citrate-based biomaterials, the core technology behind innovative bioresorbable orthopaedic tissue fixation devices CITRELOCK,TM CITREFIX,TM CITRESPLINE,TM CITRELOCK ACL,TM and CITRELOCK DUO,TM and the CITREGRAFT,TM synthetic bone void filler, which were recently cleared by the F.D.A for clinical use.

He has published 350 publications and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science Advances and has over 75 patents issued and pending. His awards include the Key to the City of Panama, the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature, the SFB Technology Innovation and Development Award, the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas Innovation and Commercialization Award, the Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation Excellence in Biomaterials Science Award, the Bioactive Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Biomedical Engineering Society Athanasiou Medal for Excellence in Translational Bioengineering.