Professor Rui L. Reis has been a full professor at the University of Mineo in Portugal since 2011. Since 2013 she has served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mineo and as the Director of the 3BS Laboratory.He has also served as President of the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapy and the International Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.He was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Dr. Rui L. Reis is a professor of biomedical materials, tissue engineering, and the design of oncology drug carriers in fundamental and applied research.He has published more than 1000 articles in international journals, applied for 75 national and international patents, authored 10 professional books, 6 special issues of scientific journals and more than 250 chapters of books in international circulation and international encyclopedias, attended more than 1980 conferences, and given about 200 guest lectures at other universities or research institutions.The article has been cited about 33,600 times in ISI Wok, with an ISI H index of 87.In 2013, he was selected by the prestigious newspaper Expresso as one of the 100 most influential Portuguese citizens (in all fields of activity).He has received the ESaform Science Award, the Jean Leray Award, the Incentive Excellence Award, the Pfizer Clinical Research Award, the Start Innovation Award, the University of Mineo Scientific Achievement Award of the Year, the George Winter Award, and the Clemson Award for Contribution to Literature.In 2014, he was nominated as one of the first two honorary citizens of Guimares, Portugal, and won the Gold Award of Guimares.In 2018, he was awarded the Harvey Prize for Engineering Research, one of the international awards for major engineering research.In 2019, he received the Career Achievement Award from the International Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.