Michael Hiles is the Senior Vice President for R&D and Chief Scientific Officer of Cook Biotech Inc, a medical device firm specialising in the development of extracellular matrix and resorbable biomaterial technologies for medical purposes. Cook Biotech researches, develops, and manufactures surgical implants and topical medical devices from these materials.

Mike was the first employee of Cook Biotech, which now has more than 200 employees and has provided more than 6 million patient treatments worldwide.

Prior to moving to Cook Biotech, Mike investigated these same materials for vascular grafts, ligaments, and bladder repair as an Associate Research Scholar in the Hillenbrand Biomedical Engineering Center at Purdue University. Before that, he completed his graduate education through the same Biomedical Center. He received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue and his PhD in Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology from the Veterinary Medical School at Purdue. He has published articles on catheter-based medical instrumentation, cardiac fibrillation, pharmacological intervention in acute animal disease, biomaterials, tissue engineering, and biomechanics of soft tissues.

Mike is an inventor on more than 50 issued or pending US patents, serves in an advisory capacity to several industry and academic groups, lectures at two academic institutions, and is an Adjunct Professor in both Biomedical Engineering and Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Purdue. He lives with his wife in rural Lafayette, IN.