Sandy Williams's Biography

Sandy Williams, Marketing and Product Manager, Scientific Bioprocessing

Dr. Chrysanthi (Sandy) Williams is a biomedical engineering expert focused on regenerative medicine. Dr. Sandy completed her B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering in 1998 from the National Technical University of Athens and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2003 from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Her doctoral thesis was focused on the development of bioreactors for small diameter tissue-engineered vascular grafts. She continued her postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota in heart valve and vascular graft tissue engineering while consulting for ElectroForce Systems Group of Bose Corporation on the development of the BioDynamic Test Instrument product line. Dr. Sandy joined Bose Corporation in 2005 and spent 10 years in various roles and positions. She worked as an applications engineer, market manager for tissue engineering and biomaterials, biologics business unit manager and director of market/product vision development and customer satisfaction.

Dr. Sandy has authored several papers in peer-reviewed journals, is co-inventor on five tissue engineering bioreactor patents, and has presented at numerous international conferences. Dr. Sandy is very actively engaged in volunteer professional activities in the biomedical field: she co-chaired the development of an ASTM standard guide for characterization of tissue engineered vascular grafts, is an invited reviewer of submitted manuscripts to the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Tissue Engineering journals and Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, is a program evaluator for biomedical engineering programs for ABET, and a grant reviewer for NSF. Her consulting company, Access Biomedical Solutions, provides product development and marketing strategy support to medical devices, regenerative medicine and biotech companies.