Dr. Seliktar is Professor and Vice Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. He holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Strathclyde University in Galsgow, United Kingdom. Dr. Seliktar has substantial research and practical experience in the fields of control of limb prosthesis, assistive technology, human performance analysis, orthopedic and occupational biomechanics. Dr. Seliktarrsquo; research has been supported by the Scottish Home and Health department, Israelrsquo Department of Defense, the US National Science Foundation NSF and the National Institutes of Health NIH, the Easter Seal Research Foundation, The National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research NIDRR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and hospitals. More than 100 publications have been resulted from his research.

Rehabilitation engineering, Limb prostheses, Biomechanics, Human motion, Orthopedic biomechanics

Microfludics

Dr. Partha Roy has received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1997. He completed his postdoctoral training in Cell Biology from Harvard Medical School and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored 25 research articles and book chapters. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for a number of biomedical science journals including Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Biophysical Journal, Cell Motility and Cytoskeleton, European Biophysical Journal, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering and Journal of Biomechanics. He is a member of American Society of Cell Biology, American Association of Cancer Research and Biomedical Engineering Society.

Cell migration, tumor invasion and metastasis, angiogenesis, cell signaling, actin cytoskeleton, protein-protein interactions, optical manipulation of proteins

Dr. Koji Shimoke is associate professor at Kansai University in the Department of Chemistry , Materials and Bioengineering Life Science and Biotechnolog

Neurotrophins-mediated anti-apoptotic mechanisms of neurons and PC12 cells, Intracellular signaling leading to neurite outgrowth, Epigenetic regulations in cell survival and neurite outgrowth, Clinical basic research about HDAC inhibitors, Toxicological research about endocrine disrupting chemicals

Professor Shahzad is currently affiliated with University of Vienna, Austria. Professor Shahzad is one of the pioneers, working for the progress of translational medicine field. He is serving as a secretary general and director of administration for “international society for translational medicine (ISTM)”. He is serving as visiting professor of translational medicine, at the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. He is also appointed as associate professor of translational medicine (Adj), at the First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, China. Professor Shahzad has won many prestigious international fellowships and awards. Professor Shahzad is invited speaker for many international life sciences conferences.

Translational Research and Clinical Diagnostics

Qing Nie is a Professor of Department of Mathematics and Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the Center for Mathematical and Computational Biology (CMCB). He is also an affiliated faculty of Center for Complex Biological Systems(CCBS) and he is serving as the Acting Director for the UCI Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Gateway Program on Mathematical and Computational Biology (MCB).

Computational Systems Biology, Cell Signaling, Stem Cell, Morphogenesis, and Patterning, Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis

Interface Dynamics in Materials and Fluids

Ariel Fernandez is the Karl F. Hasselmann Chaired Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, USA. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1984,  fasted awarded Ph.D. at Yale. He has published over 300 peer reviewed papers, several book chapters and is the author of a book on rational drug design “Transformative Concepts for Drug Design: Target Wrapping”, Springer,  2010. He has accrued a teaching experience spanning almost 30 years, served as reviewer to all major journals in molecular biophysics and to NIH special panel on centers of excellence in systems biology. Amongst his various accolades he received the Camille and Henry Dreyfus TeacherScholar Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Award and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He is an honorary member of Collegium Basilea Switzerland and editor of Frontiers in Bioscience, Encyclopedia of Bioscience, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry Basel, Switzerland etc.,

Molecular basis of drug specificity, Transformative concepts in drug design, Nonadaptive origin of interactome complexity, Translational medicine, Molecular Theranostic Engineering, Protein folding as a many-body problem.

Dr. Carter is a UW professor of rehabilitation medicine. He codirects the Muscular Dystrophy Association/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Center. He is a founding member of the neuromuscular medicine subspecialty board of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Muscle and Nerve, the Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease and the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Patient Care Philosophy. His goal is to take care of the whole person, not simply the disease symptoms. This might include making lifestyle and nutritional recommendations as well as rehabilitation modalities and medicines. He aims to improve the quality of life for those with disabilities. He sees patients with all forms of neuromuscular disorders. He has an interest in the management of neuropathic pain in the population of patients with hereditary neuropathies. His clinical practice is focused on the rehabilitation and palliative care of people with severe neuromuscular disease, particularly amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy DMD, with the goal of trying to improve the quality of life and lessening the burden of disease for these patients. Dr. Carter is also an electrodiagnostician with special expertise in diagnoses of hereditary neuromuscular disorders, including peripheral neuropathies, muscular dystrophies, and motor neuron disease.

Neuromuscular Diseases, Rehabilitation Medicine

Professor Snehasis Mukhopadhyay has received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1994. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis. In the past, he has also served as an Associate Director of Bioinformatics in Indiana University School of Informatics. He has authored over eighty research articles/books. He has served in the Program and Advisory Committees of many conferences such as IEEE Biocomputing workshop, IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Systems, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Intelligent Control etc. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1996.

Bioinformatics, Data and Text Mining, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning

Professor Qing X. Li has received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry from the University of California at Davis during the period of 1986 and 1990. He has then received postdoctoral training in the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1995 as an assistant professor and has been a full professor since 2002. Dr. Li has authored more than 170 research articles/books.

Proteomics, microbial biotransformation, agricultural chemistry

Dr. C.C. Chu joined the Cornell faculty in 1978 after completing postdoctoral research on biomaterials for maxillofacial prostheses at the Medical Center of the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He had held visiting appointments in the Department of Dental Science at University of Liverpool in the UK, at the National YangMing Medical College in Taiwan, at Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and in the Division of Mechanics and Materials Science, Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He has served on the editorial boards of The Open Macromolecules Journal, The Open Material Science Journal and The Open Biomaterials Journal. He also served on the board of directors for the Society of Plastic Engineers medical plastics division and was on the editorial board of the Journal of Investigative Surgery. Dr. Chu earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Tamkang University and a Ph.D. in polymer science from Florida State University.

Biomaterials, wound healing, fibers, polymers, biodegradable polymers, tissue engineering, material science

Dr. John Lee Robertson received Ph.D. in Pathology from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia in 1977. He held of position of Professor, Department of Basic Sciences Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine VTCSOM Roanoke, Virginia and Anatomic Pathology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia, Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine VMRCVM. Dr. John Lee Robertson got Professional License to practice veterinary medicine and surgery in Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1989.

Comparative oncology of malignant melanoma and malignant lymphoma, Chronic renal disease, Implantable biomaterials

John Leicester Williams has done PhD in Theoretical and Apllied Mechanics from Northwestern University, Evanston. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Ted Belytschko. Currently he is working as Professor Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Diego Mantovani currently working as Director Laboratory for Biomaterials and Bioengineering at Laval University CANADA

Metabolism, vascular and renal health

Dr. Bradley N. Doebbeling 1991-1996, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa; 1996-1999, Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa; 1999-2001, Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; 2001-2003, Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; 2003-2009, College of Medicine Professorship in Health Services Research Department of Internal Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; 2003 to Present, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology Department of Internal Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana

Dr. Doebbeling is a nationally recognized health care epidemiologist, health services researcher, and mentor. His research focuses on identifying environmental, organizational, provider and patient factors influencing the effectiveness of systems interventions, such as implementing decision support, to improve healthcare. His methodologic work has defined new approaches to benchmark performance and identify determinants of program effectiveness. His research is interdisciplinary and cross-cutting in the areas of the prevention and management of antimicrobial resistance and patient safety, mental health, cancer and other chronic conditions. Dr. Doebbeling currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. He also serves as Associate Director for the NIH K30 Clinical Investigator Training Enhancement (CITE) Program and the Indiana Health Services Research Fellowship Training Program.

Dr. Steven Batterman received his B.C.E. from the Cooper Union School of Engineering, New York in 1959 and continued his education at Brown University in Providence, RI where he received his M.Sc. Engineering in June 1961 and his Ph.D. Engineering in June 1964. From 1964 to 1997, Dr. Batterman was a continuous, fulltime faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA where he served as a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Department of Bioengineering and in the School of Medicine 19721997, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. In 1997, after 33 years of service, Dr. Batterman retired as a Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering Biomechanics and a Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering in Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Batterman was the first engineer in the world to be elected President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Forensic Biomechanics, Mechanics of Injury, Stress Analysis and Solid Mechanics of logical Systems, Bioengineering Design

Dr. John Lowengru has received PhD in Applied Mathematics from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Currently working as Vice Chair for Graduate Studies Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine

Applied analysis and numerical analysis of free boundary problems: Multicomponent fluid flows; fluid flows with deformable elastic oundaries; phase transformations in liquids, solids and biological tissues; tumor modeling; tissue engineering.

Dr. Zhongping Chen is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of OCT Laboratory at the Beckman Laser Institute of University of California, Irvine. He is also a Visiting Professor of World Class University program at Department of CognoMechantronics Engineering, Pusan National University in Korea. He is a Founding Director of OCT Medical Imaging Inc. Dr. Chen received his B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1982, his M. S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1987 and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 1993.

Dr. Chen’s research interests encompass the areas of biomedical photonics, molecular imaging, microfabrication, biomaterials and biosensors. His research group has pioneered the development of functional optical coherence tomography, which simultaneously provides high resolution 3-D images of tissue structure, blood flow, and birefringence. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and review articles and holds a number of patents in the fields of biomaterials, biosensors and biomedical imaging.

Xuejun Wen is currently a tenured full professor in the department of Bioengineering, Clemson University. He is also the State of South Carolina Named Hansjorg Wyss Endowed Chair Professor in Regenerative Medicine. He joined Clemson Bioengineering as a tenuretrack faculty in 2003, and resides in Charleston, SC to initiate joint bioengineering program between the Clemson University and Medical University of South Carolina CUMUSC with the mission to foster translational research and promote interinstitutional, multidisciplinary collaborations. He is also being appointed as adjunct faculty in a couple of clinical and basic science departments at MUSC, fields including neuroscience, orthopaedic surgery, dental medicine, and cell biology and anatomy. Through the past 8 years of his independent academic career, he has established a strong independent extramurally funded research lab in the field of biomaterials, tissue engineering, stem cells, and regenerative medicine. His research focuses on regenerating functional and safe human tissues by combining the principles of biomaterial science, biological science, stem cell biology, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine with the advanced techniques in molecular and cell biology. His lab has been extensively funded by federal organizations, as well as private foundations. Currently, his lab is funded by NIH R01 awards, and R21 awards, NSF NSF CAREER award, and NSF research grant, DoD Office of Naval Research, CDMRP, National Textile Center, Michael J. FOX Foundation for Parkinson’s disease, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, March of Dimes Foundation, AO Foundation, Orthopedic Trauma Foundation, South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund, etc. He has filed over 30 disclosures with 12 full patent applications. His research has been featured in numerous press releases and was highlighted in the front page of Clemson University, and the front page of the College of Engineering and Science of Clemson University.

Novel Biomaterials, Stem Cell Biology, Cell/Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine

Prof/Dr. Natalya Rapoport has received her Master Degree from Moscow State University in 1960, PhD Degree from Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry in 1965, and Dr. of Science degree one step above the Ph.D. in Europe and Russia in the Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1985. Currently, she is working as a Research Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, USA. She is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Bubble Science, Engineering, and Thechnology Maney Publishing, Inc. She has authored more than hundred research articles/books. She is a member of several scientific societies Therapeutic Ultrasound; Controlled Release; EPR. She has honored as W.W. Clyde Chair in 1990

Nanomedicine, drug targeting, ultrasound-mediated drug delivery

Professor Zhao graduated from the 3rd Military Medical University in Chongqing in 1985. After completion of PhD training under the supervision of Professor Zhengguo Wang in 1991, he worked on trauma research at the Research Institute of Surgery. In 1994 he joined Dr Geff Burnstock in 1994 at University College, London. He then moved to the University of Aberdeen as a research fellow. He won a Wellcome Trust University Award Lectureship in 1999, a Wellcome Trust University Award Senior Lectureship in 2002, in 2004 he was promoted to a full Professor in Biomedical Science and Regenerative Medicine. His group discovered that PI3 kinase/Pten molecules are key elements in the electric signaling Nature 2006; 442, 457460. In 2007, he moved to UC Davis and is currently a Professor of Dermatology and ophthalmology and he also holds a joint appointment with Center for Neuroscience and Institute for Regenerative Cures. Dr. Min Zhao is an honorary professor at the University of Aberdeen,and University of Cardiff

Directing cell and tissue growth in healing and regeneration. Engineering directed cell motility and directed cell division, the role played by small physiological electrical fields in wound healing, the development and regeneration of many tissues.

Dr. Hassan Shirvani has received PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath. Currently he is working as Professor of Engineering Design Simulation, Department Research coordinator, Anglia Ruskin University.

Medical Engineering Research Group (MERG)

Dr. Jon Dobson has joined the department from Keele University in the United Kingdom and will hold a joint appointment with Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Dobson has been working in MSE as a Visiting Professor for the past six winters, focusing on biomedical applications of magnetic materials. He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich, 1991). Dr. Dobson received a Royal Society of London Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2004, the UK Medical Research Council’s Cesar Milstein Award in 2008 and was co-recipient of The Wellcome Trust’s Sir Henry Wellcome Showcase Award 2002. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Institute for Nanotechnology in 2007 and is on the editorial board of seven journals, including IEEE Transactions in NanoBioscience. He has >170 publications including 21 invited articles for journals such as Nature Nanotechnology and Journal of Physics D (the 2nd most highly cited paper in this journal over the past decade) and has been an invited speaker at more than 45 institutes & scientific meetings, including the recent Gordon Conference on Magnetic Nanostructures (2010). He is also founder of two spin-off companies, nanoTherics and MICA BioSystems.

 

Dr. Andy Sewell trained in chemistry and obtained a PhD in the Department of Genetics at the University of Liverpool in 1991. He undertook postdoctoral studies at the University of Utah 199194. He was promoted to the faculty in Utah in 1994 but returned to the UK in 1996 to undertake studies in the area of immunology in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford. In 2000 he received a prestigious Senior Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. In December 2001 his research group moved from the John Radcliffe Hospital to The Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research within Oxford. In July 2006 he obtained a Distinguished Professorship at Cardiff University. He continues to study Tcell activation with a focus on Tcell antigens and the receptors that recognize them. He has several established connections throughout the UK biotechnology industry

Immunotechnologies, Immunotherapies, Protein engineering, Biochemical modulation of T-cell responses, Cancer Immunology, Protein-Protein interactions

Professor Jingzhe Pan received his BSc in Applied Mechanics from Shenyang University of Technology in 1982, MSc in Computational Mechanics from Dalian University of Technology in 1985 and PhD in Solid Mechanics fatigue damage of fibberreinforced composite laminates from Shanghai JiaoTong University in 1988. ACADEMIC CAREER: In 1990 Jingzhe Pan was a visiting fellow at the Civil Engineering Department of Liverpool University, working on impact damage of concrete structures. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University, working on creep failure of engineering materials. From 1994 to 2006, he was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the University of Surrey. His research at Surrey was focused on sintering science and technology. In 2006, he joined the University of Leicester to take up a Chair in Mechanics of Materials.

Biomaterials for tissue engineering and internal fixations, Properties and processing of advanced ceramics and ceramic coatings, Impact and penetration failure of materials and structures, Strength, creep and fatigue analysis of engineering equipments and structures, Multi-physics finite element analysis of engineering systems.

Dr. Ravi Kumar did his PhD in drug delivery from IIT Roorkee, India in 2000. He was a post doctoral fellow in University of Kentucky, USA from 2000-2002 and consecutively an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Saarland University for one year. From Sep 2003-Dec 2007 he was assistant professor with NIPER, Mohali, India. Since January 2008 he is professor of drug delivery at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences SIPBS, University of strathclyde.

 A lot of so called nutraceuticals and antioxidants are undergoing clinical trials these days, physicochemical/biopharmaceutical properties, Lastly, we believe in the future belonging to combination therapies involving a drug and phytochemicals/herbal medicines, To achieve the above, we investigate a range of drug dOur primary objective is to harness the maximum therapeutic potential of existing drug molecules aided by better delivery approaches, that not only leads to better therapies but also possible new indications, We are focusing on developing products based on alternative/traditional medicines.elivery systems that include nanoparticles, microparticles, hydrogels etc.

Brian Andrew current research work is on the development of advanced neural prostheses with a focus on applications in spinal injury

Dr. Gang Wang has received his PhD in Kagoshima University. Currently, he is working as a full professor in Kagoshima University

Neurophysiology in visual cortex, optical imaging, higher brain functions

Dr. Maurice B. Hallett, Ph.D., FRMS is Professor of Experimental Cell Biology at Cardiff University School of Medicine, UK. After obtaining degrees in Pharmacology from University College London, he joined the Medical School in Cardiff, UK to establish a research group that is focused on the mechanisms which underlie the behaviour of human blood phagocytes, especially neutrophils. This group has established a number of novel ways of studying the behaviour of human phagocytes at the level of individual cells. These have involved the development of new micromanipulation and subcellular imaging techniques. He has published over 150 full research papers, written two books on neutrophil cell biology and holds patents for inventions relating to cell engineering.

Phagocytes capture and kill infecting microbes.

Beth Winkelstein is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BSE in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke in 1999. She joined Penn’s faculty in 2002 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Joyce DeLeo in Anesthesiology/Pharmacology/Toxicology at Dartmouth in the neuroimmunology of low back pain. Dr. Winkelstein’s research focuses on defining mechanisms of painful neck and spine injuries, mechanical and cellular mechanisms of chronic pain and mechanotransductive pathways of pain. She has pioneered several rat models of neck injury, which are the first painful neck injury models with clinically relevant pain symptoms. Her group implements rigorous engineering analyses in these in-vivo systems to define biomechanical loading and relate those metrics to cellular mechanisms that drive pain. Her group also is developing new imaging approaches in ligament tissue biomechanics studies to understand subfailure micro and macro scale tissue responses. Dr. Winkelstein’s research has been recognized by awards from the Stapp Car Crash Conference, the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine and ASME. She was awarded a Whitaker Young Investigator Award, NIH Career Award, NSFCAREER, and the 2006 YC Fung Young Investigator Award for the most promising young Bioengineer. She has been funded by the Whitaker Foundation, NSF, NHTSA, CDC, NIH, CSRS, DoD and industry partners. She serves on the Editorial Board for Spine and the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering and has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers and 8 book chapters. Dr. Winkelstein has served as primary research mentor for 17 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as many undergraduates. She is the faculty advisor for Penn’s chapters of BMES and is active in the ASME–BED, BMES and World Congress of Biomechanics.

Tissue biomechanics, neuroimmunology, mechanotransduction, cellular regulation of pain and inflammation, spine, injury biomechanics

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societ, 3D reaching task

Dr. Kytai Truong Nguyen has received Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Rice University. Currently she is working as Assistant Professor in University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Nguyen is involved with both basic research and applied sciences. Her basic research projects focus on investigating vascular cell responses to environmental factors such as biomechanical shear stress and cyclic strain, biochemical factors growth factors and glucose and biomaterials biodegradable polymers. These studies will enhance our knowledge about the roles of environmental factors in vascular biology and in the pathogenesis of vascular disorders. Her applied science research projects involve with development of new strategies for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications, investigation of novel tissue engineered biodegradable scaffolds and drug delivery systems such as nanoparticles for treatments of various diseases including cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Her research projects expose students to a broad range of techniques and strategies in molecular biology, cell biology, drug delivery, as well as cellular and tissue engineering. Her primary research goal is to mimic nature so that the man made devices possess characteristics of the living systems to have better therapeutic benefits and to reduce adverse reactions or side effects. Her primary educational goal is to train students, who will be experts in cellular and tissue engineering research, in the advanced scientific skills necessary for a career in academia or industry.

Molecular and cellular engineering , Tissue engineering , Drug delivery systems including micro- and nanoparticles, Cell-material interactions, Effects of biomechanical and biochemical factors on vascular cells, Mechanisms of cancer metastasis

Dr. Dash is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin MCW. Before joining the MCW as an Assistant Professor from June 2006 June 2010, he was a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Modeling Integrated Metabolic System at the Case Western Reserve University from September 2003 to May 2006, a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington from October 2000 August 2003 and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the Texas AM University fro September 1998 to July 2000. He has received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics Biofluid Dynamics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in July 1998. He has published more than 35 research papers in high impact, peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as presented numerous abstracts in conference proceedings. He has served as a member of NIH review panels as well as an Associate Editor of IEEE EMBS Conference Proceedings Systems Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Modeling Methodologies. He is an active member of the American Physiological Society, Biophysical Society and Biomedical Engineering Society.

Dr. Dash research is broadly focused on the development and application of computational models and tools for predicting and analyzing the behavior of complex physiological systems, over multiple scale of organization ranging from molecular (transporters/enzymes) level to the whole-organism level. The overall goal of his research program is to work towards a quantitative understanding of the functioning of the living systems under normal and pathological conditions (health and disease) and guiding engineering-based manipulations of the systems. In a nutshell, his research for the past several years can be broadly classified into the following topics: Mathematical modeling and computer simulations of complex physiological systems; Computational algorithms for data analysis and parameter estimation (optimization); Microcirculatory oxygen and carbon dioxide transport and exchange; Multi-scale modeling of coupled blood-tissue solute transport and cellular energy metabolism in cardiac and skeletal muscles; Analysis of large-scale biochemical systems: regulation of cellular energy metabolism and mitochondrial oxygen consumption in cardiac and skeletal muscles; Mitochondrial handling of cations (Ca2+, Na+, K+, H+, Mg2+) and ROS (O2., H2O2).

Dr. Ram V. Devireddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University. He received Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Biotransport Processes, Cryopreservation of Cells and Tissues, Tissue Engineering & BioMEMs

Zhixiong Guo has received his Ph.D. in Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York during the period of 1999 to 2001. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor in School of Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has authored/coauthored over 120 research articles/books. His pioneering work on ultrafast laser interaction with tissue and nearfield optical detection of nanoentities is well cited in the field and has an author h-index of 15 in SCI. His research has been funded by NSF, MTF, NIH, USDA and other sources. He is a member of ASME and OSA and is currently serving as a Technical Committee Chair in HTD of ASME. He has served as an organization/program member in a number of international conferences.

Laser Biomedical Applications; Biophotonics; Tissue Engineering; ThermalSciences.

Dr. Ram Samudrala has received phd in Protein folding and protein structure prediction using computational approaches in 1997. Now he is working as Associate Professor at Department of Microbiology University of Washington

Molecular and Population Genetics, Developmental Biology, Bacterial Physiology, Plant Structure Function and Systematics, Evolution, Developmental Biology, Chemistry of Nucleic Acids, Protein Chemistry and Enzymic Catalysis, Protein Structure and Function, Cell Biology, and Biophysics and Theoretical/Computational Biology.  Computational techniques: experience with modelling of DNA, RNA, protein, and organismal structure, function, and evolution by simulation. Experimental techniques: experience with recombinant DNA technology (cloning, expression, analysis of genetic material)

Dr. Dinender Singla received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Punjabi University, Patiala, India and his Ph.D. from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandrigarh, India, the last in 1996. He held postdoctoral fellowship positions in the Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and at the University of Alberta, all in Canada from 1996-2002. He was a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 2002-2004 and then an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont from 2004-2007. He was appointed as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida in July 2007. His major area of research is related to cardiac regeneration and apoptosis in the animal models of Myocardial Infarction, Doxorubicin induced cardiomyopathy and diabetes. He currently held multiple grants from the NIH. He is serving on few editorial boards for cell biology journals. He is an author or coauthor on various papers and published abstracts. He is a reviewer for NIH and AHA study sections and also a manuscript reviewer of the number of major journals

Novel therapeutic approaches using cell transplantation are being studied to regenerate injured myocardium. Embryonic stem (ES) or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells may have an advantage over adult stem cells because these cells exhibit long-term proliferation in vitro, and potentially can provide an unlimited supply of tissue to meet human transplantation needs.

Dr. Gabriel A. Silva is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Ophthalmology and the Jacobs Faculty Fellows Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Department of NanoEngineering, a member of the Neurosciences Graduate Program, Computational Neurobiology Program, Institute for Neural Computation, and codirector of the Retina Engineering Center in the Institute of Engineering in Medicine. Dr. Silva received an Hon.B.Sc. in human physiology and a B.Sc. in biophysics from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1996, followed by an M.Sc. in neuroscience also from the University of Toronto in 1997. He then did his Ph.D. in bioengineering and neuroscience at the University of Illinois at Chicago, graduating in 2001, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Institute for BioNanotechnology and Medicine and the Department of Neurology at Northwestern University in Chicago from 2001 to 2003. He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego in 2004

Biomedical engineering, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Ophthalmology

He received Ph.D from University of California. Currently he is working as associate Dean for Research Department of Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University

Structure and Function of Neurotransmitter Enzymes and Receptors; Mechanism of Signal Transduction and Neuronal Degeneration; Neurotransmission and Neurological Disorders.

Professor Marco Rusnati has received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at the School of Biology, University of Milan, Italy, in 1985 110/100 cum laude. Currently, he is working as Associated Professor at the Section of Pathology and Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, where he is teaching in several courses of the area of pathology and immunology since 1992. His work has been founded by several national grant agencies. He has given more than 50 invited speeches in national and international meetings and universities. He is serving as an editorial member of The Open Microcirculation Microvascular Journal and acts as reviewer for several reputed journals like Blood and Oncogene. He has authored 20 bookacute chapters and 97 research articles on peer-reviewed journals h index 35.

Purification and characterization angiogenic factors (FGFs), identification of their functional domains, study of their interaction with their receptors and co-receptors present onto the cell-membrane or in the extracellular matrix of endothelium.
Biological activities of HIV proteins Tat, gp120 and p17, their interaction with cellular receptors and extracellular matrix.
development of inhibitor of HPV infection.
Study of molecular interaction by surface plasmon resonance (BIAcore technology).

Dr. Gardner is a Reader in the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at the University of Manchester, UK. He obtained his BSc in Chemistry in 1984 and Ph.D. in surface vibrational spectroscopy in 1988 from the University of East Anglia UK. After two successful post doctoral appointments at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge he joined the Department of Chemistry at UMIST in 1994. He has published over 100 research papers and book chapters in the field of vibrational spectroscopy and since 2000 he has built a very successful biospectroscopy group. His current laboratory is based on the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and his research involves infrared and Raman spectroscopic diagnosis of cancer

Spectroscopic cancer diagnosis, Spectroscopic pathology, Molecular biomarkers, Drug-cell interaction studies, Infrared scattering from biological samples

Dr. Raymond Kruse Iles received Ph.D from Associate Dean for Research in the School of Health Social Sciences at Middlesex University, and also the Professor of Biomedical Science. He was headhunted to lead the new Biomedical Research group at Middlesex University in 2004. Professor Iles is an international expert in the field of human chorionic gonadotropin hCG research, particularly with reference to its use as a tumour marker

Oncology research, use as a tumour marker

Dr. Philip Rowe has received PhD Bioengineering Strathclyde, BSc Hons Mechanical Engineering, Birmingham. Currently Phil is Professor of Rehabilitation Science and a bioengineer based at the University of Strathclyde

Movement analysis, functional analysis and biomechanics of the human body in motion, Musculoskeletal and neurological disorders, such as, knee and hip replacement surgery, hip fractures, back pain, hyper-mobility syndrome, patello-femoral pain syndrome, and stroke and aging, The application of science and engineering methods to patient treatment and their use to quantify and analyse the clinical effects of rehabilitation services.

Dr. Suman Das is Director of the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory and Research Group and a Woodruff Faculty Fellow at Georgia Tech. He is a faculty member in the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech. He joined the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor with tenure in Fall 2007. Prior, he was a tenured Associate Professor 20062007 and an Assistant Professor 20002006 in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He received his B.S. 1990 in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He obtained his M.S. 1993 and Ph.D. 1998 in Mechanical Engineering as a member of the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication at The University of Texas Austin. Subsequently, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship there during 19992000. His doctoral dissertation titled Direct Selective Laser Sintering of Metals received the 1999 University of Texas Outstanding Dissertation award. He was awarded the 1998 TMS Michael Koczak best paper award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, and the 1997 Los Alamos National Laboratory directorrsquo;s postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. Das is a recipient of the 2005 and 2004 Literati Club highly Commended Award for Excellence, the 2004 Society of Manufacturing Engineers M. Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, and the 2003 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award.

His current research interests include computational design, fabrication, and characterization of tissue engineering scaffolds; guided bone regeneration; whole joint reconstruction; processing of resorbable polymeric and composite biomaterials; and large-area micro/nanostructure fabrication in polymers and hydrogels for studies in cell biology and tissue engineering

Dr. JinYu Shao earned his PhD at Duke University in 1997. Currently he serves as Associate Professor and Associate Department Chairman in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis, with joint appointments in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.

Cellular and Molecular Biomechanics, Multi-Scale Simulation, Protein-Protein Interaction

Dr. Paul Dayton received his B.S. in Physics from Villanova University in 2005, his M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2001, also from the University of Virginia. He pursued postdoctoral research and was later research faculty at the University of California at Davis. Much of Dr. Dayton’s training was under the mentorship of Dr. Katherine Ferrara, where his initial studies involved high speed optical and acoustical analysis of individual contrast agent microbubbles. In 2007, Dr. Dayton accepted a faculty position in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University, Raleigh, where he is now Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program. Dr. Dayton is a member of the technical program committee for IEEE UFFC, and a member of the editorial boards for the journals Molecular Imaging and Bubble Science, Engineering, and Technology. Dr. Dayton’s research interests involve ultrasound contrast imaging, ultrasoundmediated therapies, and medical devices.

Applications of ultrasound imaging for assessment of tissue perfusion and monitoring of response to therapy. ultrasound-diated therapeutic approaches

Dr. Digvir S. Jayas, P.Eng., P.Ag., FAZRA, FASABE, FCSBE, FAIC, FCIFST, FCAE is Vice President Research, Distinguished Professor, and Canada Research Chair in StoredGrain Ecosystems at the University of Manitoba. Prior to assuming this position, he was Associate VicePresident Research, Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Department Head of Biosystems Engineering. He has also served as the Interim Director for the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Registered Professional Agrologist.

Physical properties of agricultural products; modified atmosphere storage of grains, oilseeds, potatoes, and meats; mathematical modelling of biological systems; and digital image processing for grading and processing operations in the Agri-Food industry

Dr. George E. Plopper has completed PhD from Harvard University in Cell and Developmental Biology Medical Sciences. Currently working as Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY

Development: cell differentiation, tissue formation, tissue engineering, wound healing, tumorigenesis and metastasis, cell-extracellular matrix interactions, integrin-mediated signaling, signal transduction, cell polarity.

Dr. Koser obtained double B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT. During his Masterrsquo;s of Engineering degree conducted offcampus at IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory, he demonstrated that spintunneling magnetic random access memory devices can switch at subnanosecond speeds. He stayed at MITrsquo Electrical Engineering Department to get a Ph.D. in the field of Microsystems 2002. After a post doctoral work in microfluidics at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Yale University as an Assistant Professor in 2003, where he currently conducts research in microelectromechanical systems MEMS and Nanotechnology for applications in biological and chemical detection, novel assays, bacterial hydrodynamics and miniature power devices

General: MEMS and Nanotechnology in Biomedicine, Biomechanics and Energy, (i) Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS): including sensors and actuators, microfluidics, vibration energy harvesters, microswitches for power applications, systems integration challenges for MEMS device and circuitry, (ii) Magnetic liquids: nanoparticle synthesis and functionalization for diagnostics and bio-detection, physics of micro and nano-scale magnetic phenomena, (iii) Cellular mobility: Hydrodynamics of bacterial motility, novel chemotaxis chambers, axonal guidance.

Dr. Dong Xie has received PhD from Ohio State University, Columbus, OH in Polymeric Biomaterials/Oral Biology. Currently working as Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana niversity Purdue University Indianapolis, IN

Advanced biomaterials for dental restoratives and orthopedics, Biodegradable polymers for tissue engineering, Functional polymers for regenerative medicine

Dr. Ravi Radhakrishnan has received PhD in Major: Chemical Engineering; Minor: Physics from Cornell University. Currently working as, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Statistical Mechanics, Molecular Systems Biology, Multiscale Modeling

Michael R. King is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. He is an expert on the receptor-mediated adhesion of circulating cells, and has developed new computational and in vitro models to study the function of leukocytes, platelets, stem and circulating tumor cells under flow. His laboratory is testing in vivo several therapeutic strategies for disrupting cancer metastasis through the bloodstream. He has written textbooks on the subjects of statistical methods and microchannel flows, and received numerous awards such as the NSF CAREER Award, Outstanding Research awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Clinical Chemistry, and is a James D. Watson Investigator of New York State.

Fluid mechanics; receptor binding; inflammation; thrombosis; biorheology; circulating tumor cells

Dr. Thomas J. Webster is an associate professor for the School of Engineering and Department of Orthopaedics at Brown University. His degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh B.S., 1995 and in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute M.S, 1997; Ph.D, 2000. Professor Webster’s research explores the use of nanotechnology in numerous applications, from medicine to computationally modeling protein interactions and cell responses to nanomaterials. Professor Webster is the current director of the Nanomedicine Laboratories at Brown currently at 32 members and has completed extensive studies on the use of nanophase materials to limit implant infection and inflammation as well as increase tissue growth. He has graduated over 78 post-doctoral students, and thesis completing B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. students. To date, his lab group has or will by the end of the year generate over 11 textbooks, 55 book chapters, 259 invited presentations, at least 367 peer-reviewed literature articles and/or conference proceedings, at least 533 conference presentations, and 24 provisional or full patents. Some of these patents led to the formation of four companies employing over 35 people. His research on nanomedicine has received attention in recent media publications including MSNBC October 10, 2005, NBC Nightly News May 14, 2007, PBS DragonFly TV covered across the US during the winter, 2008, and ABC Local Nightly News via the Ivanhoe Medical Breakthrough Segment covered across the US during the winter of 2008 and a separate research segment in 2010. His work has been on display at the London and Boston Science Museums and he has raised over 24 million dollars for his research program from the NIH, NSF, DOD, VA, various State agencies, and private industry. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Nanomedicine the first international journal in nanomedicine, has organized 15 conferences emphasizing nanotechnology in medicine, and has organized over 52 symposia at numerous conferences emphasizing biological interactions with nanomaterials. He was also recently selected to chair the 2011 Annual Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Hartford. Professor Webster has received numerous honors including, but not limited to: 2002, Biomedical Engineering Society Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award; 2003, Outstanding Young Investigator Award Purdue University College of Engineering; 2005, American Association of Nanomedicine Young Investigator Award Finalist; 2005, Coulter Foundation Young Investigator Award; 2006, Fellow, American Association of Nanomedicine; and 2010, Distinguished Lecturer in Nanomedicine, University of South Florida. He was recently appointed director of the Indo-U.S. Center for Biomaterials for Healthcare and also currently serves as Director of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Students at Brown University.

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of nanophase ceramics for orthopaedic/dental applications

Dr. Noreen E. Reist has received PhD in Neurosciences from the University of Stanford University, California. Currently he is working as Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Sciences Division of Neurosciences Colorado State University.

Molecular Dissection of Neurotransmitter Release

Medical imaging
Evolutionary aligorthims
Eye movements

Daniel Ratner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington. As an Investigator at NESAC/BIO, Dr. Ratner’s research focuses on developing biophysical tools to study glycan-dependent interactions at the surface of cells, tissues, and biomaterials. By studying carbohydrate microarray surface chemistries, Dr. Ratner aims to unravel the roles played by cell surface carbohydrates and glycoconjugates in biological systems.Dr. Ratner received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004

surface-modification, carbohydrate microarrays, glycan-dependent intercellular adhesion, carbohydrate synthesis and host-pathogen interactions.

Dr. Alex Mihailidis is the Barbara G. Stymiest Research Chair in Rehabilitation Technology at the University of Toronto and Toronto Rehab Institute. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy U of T and in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering U of T, with a cross appointment in the Department of Computer Science U of T. He has been conducting research in the field of pervasive computing and intelligent systems in health for the past 13 years, having published over 100 journal papers, conference papers, and abstracts in this field. He has specifically focused on the development of intelligent home systems for elder care and wellness, technology for children with autism, and adaptive tools for nurses and clinical applications.

Molecular and cellular engineering, Tissue engineering, Drug delivery systems including micro- and nanoparticles, Cell-material interactions, Effects of biomechanical and biochemical factors on vascular cells, Mechanisms of cancer metastasis

Dr. Amandio Vieira has received PhD from University of Alberta. Dr. Amandio Vieira Currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University.

Oxidative stress and antioxidant nutrients, Transport and metabolic activity of nutrients, biochemistry, cell biology, nutrition and metabolism, epigenetics, protein structure and function, hormones and growth factors, lipids and membranes, receptor-mediated endocytosis.

Dr. Vinod B. Damodaran is a Post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, USA. He earned his PhD in Chemical and Process engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was a senior research chemist with Merck and he was associated with the development of various generic APIs. His current research interests include synthesize and evaluation of biodegradable biomaterials for biomedical applications. He co-authored a number of peer reviewed journal articles and funding proposals and is also a recipient of the prestigious New Zealand postgraduate study abroad award

Synthesize and evaluation of biodegradable biomaterials for biomedical applications

Professor Bingyun Li received his PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences during 1997-2000. Currently, he is working as a Principal Investigator in the Department of Orthopedics, School of Medicine, West Virginia University. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as the Director of Biomaterials, Bioengineering, and Nanotechnology Lab. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like the Journal of Bioengineering Biomedical Science, Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, and World Journal of Orthopedics. He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters. He is a member of the Orthopedic Research Society, Society for Biomaterials, and Materials Research Society. Professor Li has been an invited speaker, panelist, or co-chair for a variety of events related to nanomedicine, bone infection, and biomaterials. He has given more than 10 invited talks in national and international meetings and peer universities

Nanomedicine; Bioengineering; Biomaterials; Drug Delivery; Bone Infection; Nanotechnology

Rodolphe Gentili has received his PhD in Motor Neuroscience at the University of Burgundy France in 2004. He received additional training in intelligent bio-inspired control systems and neuroimaging at the Superior National School of Telecommunication France, the University Pierre et Marie Curie France and the University of Maryland USA. Currently, he is working as research assistant professor for the School of Public Health, Department of Kinesiology and the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland. His work has been funded by diverse grant agencies and his work published in various peer-review journals such as Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, IEEE, Psychophysiology, PloS. He has served as reviewers for various peer-reviewed journals and proceedings in the areas of cognitive-motor neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and brain imaging. He is member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Society for Neuroscience and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Rodolphe Gentili’s research focuses on the investigation of functional non-invasive brain biomarkers, which assess the level of cognitive-motor performance and learning in humans. Another aspect of his research is to develop bio-inspired control systems able to learn to manipulate anthropomorphic robot limbs (arm/finger), while at the same time incorporating the main biomechanical features of human movement.

Dr. Jungkyu Kim has received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah in 2009. Currently, He is working as postdoc researcher in University of California, Berkeley. He has been working in the area of biomechanics, tissue engineering, microfluidics fabrication technique, microfluidic sample preparation , Lab-on-a-chip development for personalized medicine and Nano-biosensor for bacteria detection. Between 2003-2005, he received the KOSEF Korea Science and Engineering Foundation fellowship. He is serving as an reviewer of several journals like Microfluidics Nanofluidics, Sensors and Actuators A/B, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces and Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Bone Biomechanics, Lab-on-a-chip, Micro/Nano Biosensor, Microfluidics, Tissue Engineering and regeneration

Dr. Cabrales Pedro has received Ph.D from University of Los Andes; Bogota, Colombia 2004 in Engineering. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States

Analysis of the biological action of the simplest molecular gas species crucial for the living process, to determine how this integration results in the regulation of local metabolism; Translation of biological signals into quantitative measurement; Mechanical and biochemical regulation of central and peripheral circulation.

Dr. Luke H. Bradley completed his undergraduate studies at Ohio University and received his PhD in biochemistry from Ohio State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University, where his studies focused on combinatorial protein chemistry and design. In 2006, Dr. Bradley joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, and Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. He is also affiliated with the University of Kentucky’s Center of Structural Biology and the Morris K. Udall Parkinsonmiddot Disease Research Center of Excellence

Dr. Bradley’s research interests include the development of novel peptide and protein-based molecular platforms for downstream diagnostic/neuroimaging applications and biotherapeutics.

Dr. Samir M. Iqbal has received Ph.D from Purdue University 2007 in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Currently he is working as Assistant Professor-Electrical Engineering at University of Texas

Novel Structures for the Biologically Important Detection, Biologically Mediated Fabrication

Dr. Adegboyega Yomi K. Oyelere has received Ph.D from Brown University, 1998. Currently he is working as Assistant Professorat School of Chemistry and BiochemistryGeorgia Institute of Technology

Bioorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Drug Design RNA-Small Molecule Interaction Targeted Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibition Design and Synthesis of Novel Bio-conjugates for Molecular Delivery Applications

Dr. Gopinath Mani is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering program at the University of South Dakota (USD). Prior to his joining at USD, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio for two years. Dr. Mani earned his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 from the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He received his Master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Bachelor’s degree from Anna University, India.

Biomaterials/Drug Delivery Systems, Drug-eluting Stents, Surface Modification/Characterization of Biomaterials, Self-Assembled Monolayers/Organic Coatings, Biodegradable metals, Nanomaterials/Nanomedicine, Polymer Nanocomposites

Dr. Lijuan Yuan has received PhD in Immunology and virology, 1996-2000. Food Animal Health Research Program, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center OARDC, The Ohio State University. Currently she held a position as Assistant Professor, Virology and Immunology. Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.

Pathogenesis and innate and adaptive immune responses induced by enteric viruses (i.e. norovirus and rotavirus) in gnotobiotic pig models of human enteric virus infection and diseases, Mechanism of immune modulation by probiotics, The development of safer and more effective vaccines against viral gastroenteritis

Dr. Arthur Q. Zhu currently working as Assistant Professor UW Motor Behavior Lab Kinesiology and Health University of yoming

Dr. Zhu have a general interest in studying perceptual-motor skills, the skills that we acquired and use at daily base or in sport settings. Using perception-action approach, his research examines how perception and action are intertwined in forming perceptual-motor skills and how maximum efficiency could be achieved in sensorimotor control. He is specifically interested in topics of Affordances, Overarm Throwing, Transfer of Motor Skills and Rehabilitation of Motor Skills.

Dr. Chuck Alan Dorval Earned PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University, College of Engineering, Boston, MA. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of bioengineering, supported by the Biomedical Device Innovation Focus of the Utah Science, Technology and Research USTAR Initiative, with appointments in the Brain Institute and the Program in Neurosciences.He has published nearly 12 Articles

Quantifying how patterns of neuronal activity in the basal ganglia relate to whole-organism functions (e.g. procedural learning and motor control), and how the development of pathological neuronal activity in persons with Parkinson’s disease induces motor symptoms. Detailing how deep brain stimulation modifies pathological activity in the stimulated tissue, learning why those modifications alleviate motor symptoms, and designing novel neuromodulatory therapies to treat movement disorders, Understanding how the inputs that a neuron receives combine to alter the immediate response and long-term behavior of that neuron, and applying that knowledge to promote neuronal regeneration and repair connectivity in damaged neurological tissue.

Dr. Soonjo Kwon has received his PhD at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science in the University of California, Irvine in 2000, and finished his postdoctoral training at the Department of Bioengineering in the University of California, San Diego. He is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Biological Engineering in the Utah State University. He is also affiliated faculty member of Breast Interdisciplinary Group at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. His area of interest is in nano-scale scaffolds for tissue engineering, cellular micro-biomechanics of cancer, and health risk assessment of nano-particle exposure. He has served as a reviewer for reputed journals Journal of Biological Engineering, Molecular and Cellular Biochmistry, Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology, Acta Bomaterialia, Toxicolgy Letters, etc. He has authored more than 28 research articles and book chapters. He is a member of the Institute of Biological Engineering IBE and the Biomedical Engineering Society BMES.

In vitro model of micro biomechanics in breast tissue & phenotypic reversion in breast cancer, Cyclic equibiaxial deformation induced inflammation and airway remodeling, Alternative estimation of human exposure to nanomaterials, Applications of nanomaterials in tissue engineering, Enhanced productivity of recombinant protein using small molecule enhancers.

Dr. Donald J. Alcendor has received his PhD in Microbiology/Molecular Virology from University California, Davis, Davis CA. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at Meharry Medical College and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt School of Medicine

Bacterial Vaginosis and Increase Risk for HIV-1 Acquisition, The role of KSHV in the Dysregulation of Extra-cellular Matrix Proteins in Kaposi’s sarcoma (AIDS- Related Malignancy) Implications for Tumor Progression and Metastasis, Identification of Dysregulated Genes in the Brain after HIV Infection: Implications for HIVassociated Dementia, Models for Cytomegalovirus Induced Congenital Disease

Dr. John D. DesJardins is Assistant Professor in Department of Bioengineering at Clemson University

Joint Replacement, Bio-materials, Orthopedic bio-mechanics

Dr. RamuSubramanian, Saravanan currently he is working as Senior Research Associate. Department of Microbiology and Molecular GeneticsMichigan State University

Bioorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Drug Design Protein triggering.

Huafei Zou currently working as Research Associate at University of Pittsburgh

Biomedical engineering, Molecular Biology

Dr. Rajmohan Bhandari is currently a senior scientist in a biomedical company, Blackrock Microsystems, Salt Lake City, USA. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in 2009. He is author of over 25 scientific and engineering publications on MEMS based implantable devices, and materials. He currently has 1 patent and several pending in the USPTO. He has industrial experience of over 6 years in various MEMS and biomedical companies. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of Bio-MEMS and biomaterials

His research interest includes design, fabrication and testing of micro devices, implantable MEMS devices, bio-compatible materials, and system integration of MEMS devices.

Dr. Kouroush Sadegh Zadeh currently working at Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, USA

Biomedical engineering,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Neuroscience

Igor Kuznetsov currently at Boston University in Biomedical Engineering Department

Biomedical engineering

Dr. Vinoy Thomas is a Research Scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Materials Biointegration CNMB, Department of Physics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB, USA. He earned his Ph.D. from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology SCTIMST, India. He did post-doctoral studies at Friedrich-Schiller University FSU, Germany and National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, USA. He has published more than 40 Peer-reviewed papers, and 2 Reviews. He has been teaching experience of more than 5 years. He has life-membership in Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs- India SBAOI and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine- India STERMI. He is one of the members in Editorial Boards of Current Nanoscience, Journal of Biomimetics, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering etc. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of Polymers, Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. He received awards like National Research Council Research Associateship Award by National Academy of Sciences, USA and Outstanding Visiting Scholar Award by University of Alabama at Birmingham

Artificial Organs, Tissue Engineering, Biomedical engineering

Kalish heater working in Micro Analytical Immunochemistry Unit

biomedical engineering and physical science.

Govindaraj Anumanthan has received his PhD in Biochemistry from University of Madras in 2001. Currently, he is working as Research Assistant Professor in Department of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre. He is authored over ten peer reviewed papers and a review article. He is a member of Society of Basic Urologic Research (SBUR) and several organisations.  Our current research focus on tissue fibrosis, extra cellular matrix remodelling in disease and development.

Tissue remodelling, fibrosis of the bladder tissue, stress and strain mechanics, TGFß and stem cell biology in the urogenital tract, specifically in relation to disease conditions of the bladder.

Dr. John G. Benitez has received his PhD  in University of Texas during the period  of 1991.Currently, he is working as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine& Emergency Medicine in Vanderbilt University and Managing Director, Tennessee Poison Center,USA. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine at  University of Rochester.He is serving as an Reviewer,for  several reputed journals like Annals of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Toxicology/Clinical Toxicology. He has authored nearly twenty research articles. He is a member of Society of Toxicology, American Academy of Emergency Medicine.He has honored with  Research Award, American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians.

 

Dr. Philipp Kohorst is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Prosthetic Dentistry and Biomedical Materials Science at the Hannover Medical School, Germany. He received his DDS in 2005. He was awarded with the Dentaprime Research Award, the Young Investigator Award of the KPZ, the Teaching Award of the MHH and the IADR/Heraeus Travel Award. Furthermore, he participated in the Academy of Excellence of the German Research Foundation. He has been funded by the DFG, FGD and various industrial partners. Dr. Kohorst is acting as reviewer for several reputed journals like Acta Biomaterialia, Journal of Biomaterials Applications, Materials and the European Journal of Oral Sciences. He has authored more than 20 research articles on peer-reviewed journals.

Zirconia ceramics, biomechanics of dental implants, biofilm formation on dental materials, surface modification to guide cell adhesion, water jet processing

Prof. Zhan has received his PhD in biochemical engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 2003. Currently,  he is working as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at Utah State University and leading a metabolic engineering laboratory.  He has authored 47 peer reviewed articles and 2 book chapters.
 

Metabolic engineering
Synthetic biology
Biosynthetic engineering
Natural products

Dr. Nehal abu-lail has received her PhD  in Worcester Polytechnic Institute during the period  of 2004. Currently, She is working as Assistant Professor in Washington State University. She has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as Post-doctoral Fellow, Duke University. she has gone through  75conference presentations. she has authored 20 research articles. she is a member of Biomedical Engineering Society, Sigma Xi. The Scientific Research Society. she has honored as Sigma Xi PhD Research Award.

Dr.Caudell received his DVM from Virginia Tech in 2000 and completed his residency in Anatomic Pathology from Oklahoma State University in 2003. From 2003-2008, Dr. Caudell completed his fellowship in comparative molecular pathology and oncology at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He also completed his PhD in Molecular Pathology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor, Pathology & Hemato-oncology in Virginia Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech. Dr. Caudell is the Principal Investigator of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Journal of Parasitology. He has authored several research articles covering the field of chromosomal translocations in leukaemia. . He is a member of the American Society of Haematology and International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech (2011) and the Outstanding Alumnus-Early Career Award, University of Maryland (2011).

Bone marrow failure

Dr.Sai Gu has received his PhD in Nottingham University during the period of 1997-2000 Currently, he/she is working as Senior Lecturer in Southampton University. He/ She has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals messages

Bio energy and biomass thermal conversions

Silvina Matysiak is an assistant professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Matysiak was awarded a diploma in chemical engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2001, and received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Rice University in 2007. Before joining the University of Maryland, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and at the Institute of Computational Sciences and Engineering. She serves as a reviewer for a variety of journals including Physical Review Letters and Phys. Rev. E, was a fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, a visiting scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Manufacturing Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
 

Protein folding and stability, biomolecular recognition, multiscale modeling techniques, biological transport, role of water in biomolecular systems, virus adsorption onto surfaces, properties of membrane bilayers and monolayers, binding studies on ApoE and its role in Alzheimer’s disease.

Xiaolong Luo received his B.E. from Zhejiang University (China) in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering in 2001, M.S. from Temple University in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 before he obtained his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Maryland in 2008.  He is currently a research associate at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland.

Microfabrication and packaging, bio-microelectromechanical systems (bioMEMS), microfluidics, lab on a chip, biofabrication, cell-cell communication, tissue/organ on a chip, bilayer lipid membrane (BLM), and surface enhanced Raman Spectrometry (SERS).  Currently, he focuses on biofabrication and its novel applications in microfluidics. Specifically, he develops microfluidic platforms for signal-guided assembly of biomolecules and cell populations, and studies metabolic pathways and cell-cell communications in microfluidics.

Rational design and synthesis of novel smart therapeutic and imaging particles.
Development of in vitro models of epithelial/endothelial barriers in microfluidic channels.
Molecular engineering of oral biomimetic drug delivery systems.
Applications of therapeutic ultrasound in drug delivery to solid tumors.

Bioengineering at the University of North Carolina AT. He has earned his MD and Ph.D. from Hannover Medical School, Germany. He has published several papers and book chapters and has accrued his teaching experience in a variety of international settings. Dr. Witte is the Global Site Coordinator of the NSF-Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials and is a member of the European Society for Biomaterials, a member of the International Chinese Hard Tissue Society and a member of the International Bone Research Association

Bone Biology, Degradable Biomaterials, Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys, Microtomography, Cell Culture, Animal Models Immune Response to Biomaterials (in vitro and in vivo) Synchrotron-radiation based microtomography (HASYLAB at DESY) In vivo Fluorescence Imaging for Biomaterial-Host-Interactions

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Besides clinical medicine, he has a deep interest in translational research and has worked in various aspects of medicine including valvular heart disease, angiogenesis and atherosclerosis, Angiogenesis, Inflammation

Dr. Hosam A. Elbaz has received his PhD in West Virginia University during the period of 2007 - 2011. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral fellow Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Cancer Therapeutics
Carcinogenesis
Cell Cycle and Checkpoint Regulation
Apoptosis
Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology
Targeted Drug Delivery
Therapeutic Gene Delivery
Biochemical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Philip Young has received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Wales during the period between 1996-2000. Currently, he is the Vandervell Lecturer in Human Function in the Department of Clinical Neurology at the Peninsula Medical School University of Exeter. He has authored numerous research articles in internationally renowned journals, such as Human Molecular Genetics, Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Virology and Journal of Biological Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA

Dr. Young is primarily a protein biochemist and molecular biologist. He has worked for almost 15 years on the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein, and trying to elucidate why reductions in SMN protein levels trigger the childhood disorder, spinal muscular atrophy.

Mohammad Reza Abidian received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Michigan in 2007. Dr. Abidian’s doctoral research was focused on nanostructured conducting polymers and bioactive nanofibers for neural interfaces. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Center for Neural Communication Technology at the University of Michigan in 2010. During his postdoctoral training, Dr. Abidian investigated the applications of nanostructured conducting polymers for in vivo neural recording and peripheral nerve regeneration. Dr. Abidian joined the Department of Bioengineering at Pennsylvania State University in August 2010. Dr. Abidian has courtesy appointment in departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering. Research in his lab is focused on multi-disciplinary approaches for development of micro/nano-scale technologies for targeted delivery of biomolecules, neurochemical sensing, and tissue engineering for central and peripheral nervous systems. The honors and awards Dr. Abidian has received include Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Silver Award, the University of Michigan Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, and College of Engineering Distinguished Achievement Graduate Award.

Design and characterization of Biomaterials for biosensing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering to central and peripheral nervous system

Jing-Pei Cao is currently at Gunma University

Bio-oil, Sewage sludge, Pig compost, Wood chip, Internally circulating fluidized-bed

Dr. Biju Vasudevanpillai has received Ph.D. from Kerala University in 2000. Currently he is working as chief Scientist JST PRESTO Researche.

Modern nano and bionano tools and technologies based on multimodal analyses of a wide spectrum of molecules, materials and living systems for the advancement of health technology. The main research area I am focusing is the use of bioconjugated nonomaterials, and spectroscopy and microscopy, especially, atomic force microscopy, fluorescence microscopy and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, to unravel subcellular processes and the structures and functions of cell organelles. For example, currently we are investigating the mechanism underlying the activation of signaling molecules relevant to the proliferation of cancer cells, intracellular delivery of bioconjugated nanoparticles of bioimaging and therapeutic potentials, and the interactions of nanoparticles with biomolecules such as peptides and DNA. Also, we are developing novel nano and bionanomaterials, and optimizing their optical properties for advanced bioanalysis and nanobiotechnology

Dr. Hussein holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, University Sains Malaysia. Dr. Hussein has strong experience in the synthesis, surface modification and characterisation of carbon nanotubes. He is a principal investigator of many research projects. He has managed to publish over 110 scientific articles, two book chapters, two patents and given talks in invited seminars. Dr. Hussein has received more than 50 national and international awards. In 2005, Dr. Hussein was awarded a Gold Medal for the project “Production of Carbon Nanotubes and Hydrogen” at the 33rd International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products held in Geneva, Switzerland.

Bone replacement materials especially calcium phosphate cements with nanomaterials