Dr Christopher Hernandez

The University of California, USA

Dr. Hernandez is a Professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and is an Investigator at the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco. He is a recipient of the Fuller Albright Award (2018) and Adele Boskey Award (2024) from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. for In 2022 he was named to the inaugural class of BRITE Fellows by the US National Science Foundation. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Orthopaedic Research Society and Councilor (Board of Directors) of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. He has written about creativity in science in Scienceand in a TEDx talk. His laboratory’s research currently focuses on the effects of the microbiome on the musculoskeletal system and orthopaedic surgery, the biomechanics and mechanobiology of bacteria and engineered living materials.