Robert E. Baier,

UB Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Biography

Robert E. Baier, an internationally renowned biomedical engineer and distinguished professor at the University at Buffalo, was in the forefront of numerous scientific investigations on how surfaces interact with one another. His genius was in seeing how they could be applied somewhere else. He did research for the Navy, which led to non-toxic coatings to keep marine creatures off the hulls of ships, and for numerous Fortune 500 companies. His work on symptoms of dry eye disease helped lead to the development of Systane lubricant eye drops