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Jiro Nagatomi is a professor of Bioengineering and the director of the Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology Laboratory at Clemson University (South Carolina). He has been an active researcher and educator in biomechanics and mechanobiology for over 20 years. He completed his B.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York). His doctoral thesis was on an in vitro investigation of the effects of hydrostatic pressure on bone cell functions. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in soft tissue biomechanics before assuming his current faculty position at Clemson University in 2005. His research group is interested in understanding the mechanisms involved in cellular mechanotransduction of hydrostatic pressure and developing bioreactors for research in mechanobiology. In addition, his group has had projects in biomaterials and regenerative medicine research. He is also active in international education, especially in student exchange activities with Japanese universities, and has sent over 100 students from Clemson University to various institutions in Japan.