Dr. Dake Hao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, Davis, and a Principal Investigator at Shriners Hospital for Children, where he established the Laboratory for Tissue Regenerative Engineering And Therapeutics (TREAT) in July 2024. He completed his doctoral and postdoctoral training in biomedical engineering and related fields before joining the UC Davis faculty. His innovative work has been recognized with several prestigious honors, including the 2026 BMES–CMBE Rising Star Faculty Award. His research program focuses on exploring disease mechanisms and cell-extracellular environment interactions, while developing disease-driven dynamic biomaterials, targeted delivery platforms, and next-generation biomedical products to advance regenerative medicine and translational therapies from bench to bedside.