Michael Hiles, Ph.D.

Mike has more than 30 years of experience discovering, developing, and delivering tissue-engineered medical products to patients worldwide, and his engineering teams developed more than 50 products that were launched in the US and other territories. He has extensive knowledge in preclinical testing and model development, and understands design controls, verifications, and validations quite well. Mike has also been dedicated to continuous improvement, processing efficiency, and design for manufacturing to reduce costs. He is an inventor on more than 50 US patents, and he has a keen sense for what should be patented versus kept as a trade secret. Business Development, partnering, and strategic vision, focusing especially on the patients, round out some of Mike’s many strengths. Mike was a founder and long-term builder of Cook Biotech and was its Senior Vice President and CSO when the company was purchased in 2024. Mike is a Purdue Boilermaker through and through by earning his BS and MS in electrical engineering and his PhD in veterinary physiology, pharmacology, and basic medical sciences.