Auburn University: Chemical Engineering, B.E.
Rice University: Bioengineering, PhD
Sean Bittner is currently the Director of Programs for new ventures at Proxima Clinical Research, a contract research organization that serves the emerging drug and medical device industries.
Prior to joining Proxima, Sean was a graduate research fellow at Rice University, where he studied applying 3D printing to tissue engineering of bone and cartilage. While in graduate school, Sean developed a passion for personal and professional development, particularly leadership development. He completed over 200 hours of training in coaching skills and interpersonal dynamics and was recently credentialed as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. Using the skills developed during his leadership training, Sean went on to manage three graduate student teams to design experiments for his PhD work, and two short-term consulting projects with life science companies in Houston. As the Director of Programs for new ventures at Proxima, Sean is excited to support the development of life science startups from idea to market.
Proxima Clinical Research, Inc., Houston, Texas
Dir. Of Programs, New Ventures
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Graduate Research Fellow
Enventure Life Science Innovation, Houston, Texas
Leadership Development Coach
Consulting Project Manager
Mr. Bittner has contributed to the following peer-reviewed publications:
Bittner, Sean M., Hannah A. Pearce, Katie J. Hogan, Mollie M. Smoak, Jason L. Guo, Anthony J. Melchiorri, David W. Scott, Antonios G. Mikos. (2021). Swelling behaviors of 3D printed hydrogel and hydrogel-microcarrier composite scaffolds. Tissue Engineering Part A.
Guo Jason L., Luis Diaz-Gomez, Virginia Y. Xie, Sean M. Bittner, Emily Y. Jiang, Bonnie Wang, Antonios G. Mikos. (2021). Three-dimensional printing of click functionalized, peptide patterned scaffolds for osteochondral tissue engineering. Bioprinting. 2021 Mar 26:e00136.
Smith, Brandon T.*, Sean M. Bittner*, Emma Watson, Mollie M. Smoak, Luis Diaz-Gomez, Eric R. Molina, Yu Seon Kim, Carrigan D. Hudgins, Anthony J. Melchiorri, David W. Scott, K.Jane Grande-Allen, James J. Yoo, Anthony Atala, John P. Fisher, Antonios G. Mikos. (2020). Multi-Material Dual Gradient 3D Printing for Osteogenic Differentiation and Spatial Segregation. Tissue Engineering Part A. 2020 Mar 1;26(5-6):239-52.
Bittner, Sean M., Brandon T. Smith, Luis Diaz-Gomez, Carrigan D. Hudgins, Anthony J. Melchiorri, John P. Fisher, Antonios G. Mikos. (2019). Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of 3D Printed Vertical Uniform and Gradient Scaffolds for Bone and Osteochondral Tissue Engineering. Acta Biomaterialia 90, 37-48.
Diaz-Gomez, Luis, Brandon Smith, Panayiotis Kontoyiannis, Sean Bittner, Anthony Melchiorri, and Antonios Mikos. (2019) Multimaterial segmented fiber printing for gradient tissue engineering. Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods 25(1), 12-24.
Bittner, Sean M.*, Jason L. Guo*, Antonios G. Mikos. (2018). Spatiotemporal Control of Growth Factors in Three-Dimensional Printed Scaffolds. BioPrinting e00032.
Bittner, Sean M.*, Jason L. Guo*, Anthony J. Melchiorri and Antonios G. Mikos. (2018). Three-Dimensional Printing of Multilayered Tissue Engineering Scaffolds. Materials Today, 21(8), 861-874.
