BIOMATMEET2023

Dr. Zhuang Liu is a professor at Soochow University in China. He received his BS degree from Peking Universityin 2004 and PhD degree from Stanford University in 2008. In 2009, Dr. Liu joined Institute Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) at Soochow University. Dr. Liu is now working in the field of biomaterials and nanomedicine, to develop smart materials and nanotechnology for biomedical imaging and cancer therapy. Dr. Liu has authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers, with a total citation of>70,000 times and an H-index at 143. He has been listed as one of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ (Materials, Chemistry) by Thomson Reuters since 2015. Hewas invited to be the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2015, and elected to be the Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2019. The awards he received include theXplorer Prize, Periodic Table of Younger Chemists by IUPAC,Biomaterials Science Lectureship by RSC, National Distinguished Young Scholar Award (Fund) by NSFC, etc. Now he is serving as an associate editor for Biomaterials. He has founded a start-up company, InnoBM, which is focused on the development of novel therapeutics for cancer immunotherapy.

Abraham J. Domb is a Professor for Medicinal Chemistry and Biopolymers at the School of Pharmacy-Faculty of Medicine and Forensic Sciences at the Faculty of Law of The Hebrew University. He earned B.Sc. degrees in Chemistry, Pharmaceutics and Law; Diplomas in Business Management and Textile Science and a Ph.D. in chemistry from The Hebrew University. He did postdoctoral training at Syntex Research, MIT and Harvard University. Since 1991 he is a faculty member at The Hebrew university. During 2007-2012 he headed the Division of Forensic Science at the Israel Police. During 2014-2016 he served as President of College of Engineering. 2018-2021 he was the head of the School of Pharmacy of the Hebrew University. Since 2021 he is the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Innovation, Science & Technology.

Richard Spontak is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University and UC Berkeley, respectively. He pursued post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Energy Technology before joining Procter & Gamble. At NC State University, he has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal papers, and his work has been featured on 31 journal covers and cited over 14,000 times. At NC State University, he has been awarded the Alexander Q. Holladay Medal for Excellence, the Alcoa Foundation Engineering Achievement and Distinguished Engineering Research Awards, and the Alumni Outstanding Research Award. In addition, he received the ACS (PMSE Division) Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings and the Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science, the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, International Award, the German Society for Electron Microscopy Ernst Ruska Prize, the ACS (Rubber Division) Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Colwyn Medal, the Norwegian University of Science & Technology Lars Onsager Professorship and Medal, and the Society of Plastics Engineers International Award. An elected fellow of the American Physical Society, IOM3, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Chemical Society PMSE Division, he is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Wenxin Wang is Full Professor in Skin Research and Wound Healing, a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principal Investigator at the Charles Institute of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), and a member of UCD Academic Council. He won the highly prestigious “Young Scientist Prize in Regenerative Medicine” in 2010 at TERMIS-EU conference, the “SFI Principal Investigator award” in 2011 and the DEBRA Award for Excellent EB Patient Service in 2014, which highlight his work ethic and achievements. Prof. Wang’s scientific interests are in the areas of biomaterials, stem cell and gene therapy for the treatments of skin wounds, cardiovascular and neural degenerative diseases. His scientific contribution and achievements have been recognized both nationally and internationally including over 200 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers (Nat. Commun., Nat. Rev. Chem., Sci. Adv., Angew. Chem., JACS, Chem. Sci. and Nano Letters etc.), 5 book chapters, 25 patents, 140 conference abstracts and presentations, and 110 invited lectures and keynote presentations. Since 2009 he has graduated 19 PhD students and mentored over 25 postdoctoral researchers. His achievements have gained the increased interest in the wider public community with publicity media activities (56 times in TV Documentary, Videos and Newspapers), for example in RTE-TV, ‘The Sunday Times’, ‘The Irish Times’, ‘Science Daily’ and ‘Chemistry World’. He has been awarded significant funding (ca. 11.4 million Euros) from different sources, e.g., SFI, Health Research Board (HRB), Irish Research Council (IRC), Enterprise Ireland (EI) and European Union (EU-FP7 & EU Horizon 2020) to support his research activities. Prof. Wang has acted as the symposium convener and chair, the member of organizing committees and the member of the conference advisory board for 31 international conferences and has been selected as an expert reviewer and panel member by 25 international research councils and funding bodies. As the founder, Prof Wang has launched 3 companies - Vornia Ltd (acquired by Ashland - a Fortune500 US company in Jan. 2018, renamed as Ashland Specialties Ireland), Blafar Ltd. (http://www.blafar.com), and Branca Bunús Ltd. (https://brancabunus.com/). Furthermore, he has licensed 7 new technologies to 4 companies: Ashland, Amryt Biopharm, Blafar and Branca Bunús, and successfully launched and commercialized 5 newly developed technologies onto the market.

Lynn L.H. Huang obtaining Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1993 from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, USA., Dr. Lynn L.H. Huang was recruited as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Biomedical Engineering in the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. She then served as an Associate Professor in the Institute of Biotechnology at the National Cheng Kung University and was promoted to a full Professorship in 1999. She is now a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biotechnology & Bioindustry Sciences and co-appointed in the Institute of Clinical Medicine and Department of Food Safety / Hygiene and Risk Management in the College of Medicine at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Since 2008, she was elected as a fellow of BiomaterialsScience and Engineering (FBSE) because of her pioneering contributions in collagen-hyaluronan biomaterials and leadership in regenerative medicine education. Except numerous research awards and innovation awards, she was awarded Lifetime Achievement Inventor in 2014. She servedas a Taiwan delegate in the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials and Engineering during 2000~2018. She is now an editorial honorary advisory board member for the “Journal of Biomaterialsand Tissue Engineering”.She has been working in the fields of extracellular matrix biochemistry and biomaterials for over 37years and was the first person proposed a non-contractible collagen-hyaluronan scaffold in the world.Her expertise is in biochemistry of collagen and hyaluronan, biomaterials, tissue engineering, stem cellbiology, 3-dimensional culture, biocompatibility, wound healing, animal models, etc. Her lab hassuccessfully proved plasticity of mesenchymal stem cells by extracellular microenvironment and developed a hydrogel therapy to overcome keloid scar, an inherited disease. Recently, with a strict non-regenerative hind limb ischemia model in diabetic mice, she has invented a novel regenerative medicine for the ischemic treatment to prevent limb amputation. She now has over 85 international approved patents and has co-authored over 210 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.

Paulo C. DE MORAIS, PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology– China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010, 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at UnB. ProfessorMorais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE. He has served as referee for more than 50 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of more than 15 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 40 years. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanosized materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, nanosized semiconductors, polymeric dots, carbon dots, and graphene quantum dots). His current metrics with Web of Science (ResearchGate/Google Scholar) is H44 (H46/H52), 486 (531/622) publications and 7,870 (8,870/10,937) citations.

Giovanni Vozzi was graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1998 at the University of Pisa. In 2002 he got the PhD in Bioengineering at Polytechnical of Milan. At present he is afull professor in Bioengineering. He acts as supervisors of PhD students in Materials Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and coordinates the work of several undergraduate students and graduate fellows. He was member of Board of Directors of International Society of Biofabrication and now he is treasurer of this Society, of which he was founder, he is member of IEEE and Of National Group of Bioengineering. His principal research interests are: 1) study and mechanical, chemical and cell characterisation of novel materials, principally obtained by waste materials and design of new methodologies of their functionalisation for application to Biomedical Engineering and to several areas of Industry ; 2) development of new micro and nanofabrication techniques for application to Biomedical Engineering and to several areas of Industry; 3) development of in vitro tissue model and of innovative bioreactors 4) in silico cell modelling; These scientific activities are demonstrated by more then 130 papers on International journal with high IF (h-index=33) 12 chapters on book and 24 national and international patents. He is Editorial Board member of several journal and acts as reviewers for the most important journal in his research field. He was involved and coordinator in several national and european research projects.

Samuel Diógenes Azevedo de Souza, researcher at the Department of Process and Product Development (DPPD), associate member of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Biofabrication (BIOFABRIS) at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He has been developing his PhD in the field of chemical engineering. He is an active researcher in the field of biomaterials making use of various emerging technologies and Industry 4.0 to meet the needs of medical demand.

Jason H.C. Yang is an Assistant Professor of Fiber and Composite Materialist Feng Chia University. He received his B.S. degree in Engineering Chemistry and M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stony Brook University. He received his D. Eng. degree from Kyushu University.Since 2017, he is with Feng Chia University, where he leads the Materials Integration Research Lab (https://jchome.x10.mx/YangGroup). His research interestsinclude liquid phase plasma process, and atmospheric pressure plasma process for biomedical and environmental applications.

Dr Woo has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and he has obtained PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M. He majors in energy system such as HVAC and its heat transfer, optimal design and control of refrigerator, reliability design of thermal components, and failure Analysis of thermal components in marketplace using the Non-destructive such as SEM & XRAY. In 1992.03–1997 he worked in Agency for Defense Development, Chinhae, South Korea, where he has researcher in charge of Development of Naval weapon System. He was working as a Senior Reliability Engineer in Refrigerator Division, Digital Appliance, SAMSUNG Electronics. Now he is working as associate professor in mechanical department, Ethiopian Technical University. (about 250 - 500 words)

Federico Carpi is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florence. From 2012 to 2016 he has been an Associate Professor (Reader) in Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials at Queen Mary University of London, School of Engineering and Materials Science, UK. Since 2016, he is with the University of Florence, where he leads the ‘SMART – Soft Matter ARtificial muscles and Transducers’ research group (www.smart.unifi.it). His research interests include smart material-based biomedical and bioinspired mechatronic devices, and polymer artificial muscles. His publications include some 70 articles in international journals, 3 edited books and several contributions to books and conferences.

Crivellin Sara, a researcher at the Department of Process and Product Development (DPPD), and an associate member of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Biofabrication (BIOFABRIS) at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. I earned my Master's Degree at the Polytechnic of Turin. I am developing my Ph.D. in the field of chemical engineering. He is an active researcher in the field of biomaterials, in particular poly (L-lactic acid), in the synthesis and control of this polymer. Also making use of various emerging technologies as an area 3D printer and I am directing my research towards the area of cosmetics about these biomaterials.

Lindemberg M Silveira-Filho, Assistant Professor of Surgery, State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil MD on Surgery from State University of Campinas (2006), PhD on Surgical Sciences from State University of Campinas (2011). Specialist on Cardiovascular Surgery by Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery since 2003 and international member of Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) since 2013. Currently assistant professor at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, since 2014. Visiting Research Scholar at McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Member of multidisciplinary research group "Biomimesis and Technological Innovation in Tissue Regeneration". Experience in Medicine, focusing on Cardiovascular Surgery and Intensive Care Medicine. Especial interest in heart surgery, CABG surgery, heart failure, application of biomaterials to heart disease treatment and translational research."

Assistant Professor Dr.J. Salber holds a PhD in polymer chemistry and biomedical sciencesof the RWTH Aachen University, Germany and is a board certified orthopedic surgeon with 14 years of clinical experience working as emergency doctor and trauma surgeon. He is a full instructor of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and educates future ER specialists. Currently, he is head of the Department of Experimental Surgery at the Center for Clinical Research at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)and a senior physician at the Department of Surgery at the University Hospital RUB, Germany. His clinical interestsare focused on Foreign Material-Associated Infections (FMAI), sepsis and multiple trauma immunology. His research group is working in the fields of clinically applied biomedical research with focus on biocompatibility assessment, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.Since 2021, Dr Salber has been teaching at the RUB in the research focus Molecular Medicine on the topic“Molecular regulation of biomaterial-cell/tissue interactions: How can biocompatibility be accurately tested to avoid implant failure?“. Refereed Journal Publications >60; h-index: 22; i10-index: 29; Citations: 1812; RI-score: 1,196

Dr. Chao Wang is a professor at Soochow University. He received his B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from Soochow University. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). In 2018, Dr. Wang joined FUNSOM at Soochow University as a professor. His research focuses on the construction of biomaterials for immunoengineering and cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Wang has authored over 90 peer-reviewed papers including Sci Transl Med, Nat Biomed Eng, Sci Adv, Nat Commun, which have received a total citation of > 25,500 times and given him an H-index at 70. He was was chosen for the 2018-2021 "Highly Cited Researchers" list produced by Clarivate Analytics, 2021 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific (TR35)

Naveen Tiwari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Engineering Science and Mechanics department at The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA. In 2020, he received his Ph.D. degree from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. His research interests mainly includes self-healing material, stretchable/soft electronics, wearable sensors, bioactive materials and biomimetic/bio-inspired based TENG.

Nader Ghaffari Khaligh received his Ph.D. in Organic chemistry from the University of Guilan, Iran, in 2013. Since 2015 he works as a researcher in the Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Center, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. His publications, including papers, reviews, and mini-reviews, are focused on heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, sustainable chemistry and energy, synthesis of heterocycles, and multi-task reagents. ‎ He has been elected as World's Top 2% Scientist Career-Long Citation ‎Impact and World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2019, 2020, and 2021. He received Chines Chemical Letter Excellent paper in 2017, and Best Research Award in International Research Award on Oncology and Cancer Research in 2022. He is the executive editor, section editor, and associate editor of three international journals and he is member of editorial board of several international journals.

Nader A. Rahman Mohamed (PhD. in System & Biomedical Engineering) was born in Egypt in 1973. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Systems and Biomedical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University in June 1996 and June 2002, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Biomedical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University in June 2009. He has joined the department of Biomedical Engineering – Faculty of Engineering – Misr University for Science and Technology since September 2009. His current research interests include image and signal processing, artificial intelligence, neural network, biomedical equipment design, biomechanics and biomaterials.

Scientific Support Managerat Rousselot and among others responsible for biomedical co-developments with academia, CRO’s, Institutes and customers. He is also involved in product developments and creating background knowledge on the behaviour of physical, chemical and purity properties of gelatin in various biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. Mr. Olijve has abiochemical background.Before joining Rousselot he worked for FujiFilm, where he was responsible for the development of photographic gelatins. Hewas also involved in the development of recombinant gelatin and gelatin based peptides for both photographic and biomedical applications. Mr. Olijve is the holder of 18 patents/patent applications, and (co-)author of 15 scientific papers.

Gianluca Santesarti is a PhD student in Bioengineering at the university of Rome Tor Vergata. His research topic is on computational modelling of 3D-extrusion bioprinting through CFD and FSI simulations guided by experimental results.He received his bachelor’s degree in Energy Engineering in 2016 from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with an experimental thesis on cruise control for electric vehicles. Then, he continued his study in Energy Engineering at the University of Bologna, where he focused on fluid dynamics and numerical methods by receiving the MSc with a thesis regarding multi-scale Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problems with FEM simulations. Next, he completed the state examination for the industrial engineering qualification.He is a member of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB), EUROMECH and Italian associations AIMETA GNB INdAM.

Dr. Magdalena Stevanovic, Principal Research Fellow at Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts took her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the Faculty of Physical Chemistry in Belgrade in December 2007 (Ph.D. best thesis award by the Materials Research Society of Serbia, 2008). The fields of expertise covered by the thesis are nanotechnology, controlled drug delivery, biomaterials, and polymers. She is a Vice President of the Organizing and Scientific Committee of Young Researchers Conferences "Science and Engineering of New Materials" since 2013 and is also a member of the organizing committees of several international conferences. Board member of the Association of the Scientific Institutes of Serbia for Technological and Biotechnical Sciences since December 2011. Also, a member of the International Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC), Controlled Release Society (CRS), Bioencapsulation Research Group, American Nano Society, Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), Society of Physical Chemists of Serbia, Materials Research Society of Serbia, Serbian Chemical Society, Association of Italian and Serbian scientists and researchers (АIS3). She is currently leading several international research projects and cooperation (with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; TU Wien Austria, MMMI Torino, Italy, NIB, Slovenia; KIST Korea; TEI Greece; etc) and has been participating in several national (MESTD RS: Project No 1431, Project No. 142006, Grant No. III45004) and international projects (INCOMAT (FP6-032918)). Reviewer for the number of international journals with high impact factors. Outstanding reviewer status for the Materials Research Bulletin. She is the first and corresponding author of five chapters in books, has published more than 50 papers and she has two patents (Scopus h-index 17).

Prof. Cohn’s research activities focus on the synthesis, characterization and biological interactions of implantable polymeric biomaterials and the engineering of medical devices, with special emphasis on the following areas: Biomedical polymers Biodegradable polymers 3D printed biomedical systems In situ generated implants Smart medical devices He has published numerous scientific papers, holds many patents (more than ten have been commercialized), edited several books and organized many international scientific conferences. He has served as the Director of the Casali Center of Applied Chemistry and as the Head of the School of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Has been a key player in various start-up companies and has collaborative projects with leading Companies in the Medical Devices field, mainly in the US and Europe, based on technologies developed in his lab. Two products based on biodegradable polymers developed in his laboratory have been approved for clinical use by the FDA and other leading regulatory agencies. A third product based on a polymer developed in his laboratory has received the CE mark. Several additional polymeric medical devices developed in Prof. Cohn’s laboratory are at various stages of their industrial development and regulatory process.

KHMICH Abderrahim, researcher in material physics, associate member in LS3M laboratory in Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. He obtained its PhD in the field of material physics. He is an active researcher in the field of metallic glasses using molecular dynamics method.