Mike Kallos

Professor, and Director at BME Calgary Initiative

Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Michael Kallos is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine. He is the Associate Director of the Pharmaceutical Production Research Facility (PPRF), the Director of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Graduate Program and Associate Director of the Center for Bioengineering Research and Education (CBRE). Dr. Kallos runs an NSERC funded bioengineering lab investigating the development of scaled-up expansion and differentiation bioprocesses for adult/ embryonic stem cells, and he is also a member of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health in the Faculty of Medicine. He is a Principal Investigator in the Stem Cell Network, where he has served on the Training Committee, as well as the Steering Committees for the 2007 and 2010 AGM. Dr. Kallos has received a number of awards, including an ASTech (Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Foundation) Leader of Tomorrow Award (2002), numerous teaching awards from peers and students (including “Professor of the Year” and “Outstanding Excellence in Teaching”), and other honors including being named as one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 (Avenue Magazine, 2009). Dr. Kallos has significant service contributions including being involved in organizing several local, national and international conferences, and has received a Faculty of Engineering Service Award in 2005 and again in 2013 (Schulich School of Engineering). He has received funding from several Canadian and international granting and funding agencies including NSERC, CIHR, NIH, CFI, ASRIP, JDRF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.