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.

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.