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Stephanie Willerth is an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and Canada Research Chair of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Victoria. During 2017, she served as the acting director of the Centre for Biomedical Research and as the president of the Canadian Biomaterials Society. Her honors include being named a Woman of Innovation in 2017, one of the 2015 Young Innovators in Cellular and Biological Engineering, and a “Star in Global Health” by Grand Challenges Canada in 2014. She spent Fall of 2016 on sabbatical at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery supported by the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) International Travel Award where she wrote her book “Engineering Neural Tissue Using Stem Cells” published by Academic Press. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of California-Berkeley after receiving her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University. Her undergraduate degrees were in biology and chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.