Interests:
Vascular and Lung Engineering

Selected Awards & Honors:
National Academy of Inventors Fellow, 2014.
Winner of Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Innovators Award for 2011, for development of "off-the-self" tissue engineered vascular graft to treat patients with vascular disease. Award went to Humacyte, Inc, of which Niklason is the Founder.
Winner of Frost & Sullivan Growth, Innovation & Leadership Award 2011, for development of engineered vascular graft. Award went to Humacyte Inc, of which Niklason is Founder.
Time Magazine 50 Best Inventions of 2010 for Engineered Lung, 2010.
College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 2008.
One of twenty-one US News & World Report Innovators for 2001.
Hunt Scholar, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, 2001.
2000 DISCOVER Magazine Award for Technological Innovation, Finalist in Health category, 2000.
Selected by National Academy of Engineering for Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, 2000.