Don Chaffin, Ph.D.

Richard G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor of

Industrial and Operations Engineering,
College of Engineering;

Director, Human Motion Simulation Laboratory

The University of Michigan

"Human Motions at Work and Their Biomechanical Implications"

Ravi Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

University of Pennsylvania

"Fidelity in DNA Repair: Unraveling the Orchestration of Active-site Assembly in the Ternary Complex of DNA Polymerase Beta"

(Co-sponsored with Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

Robert Lie-Yuan Sah, M.D., Sc.D

Professor and Vice-Chair

University of California, San Diego

Department of Bioengineering

"Bioengineering Articular Cartilage and Joints"

Robert Guldberg, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology

Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

"Functional Integration of Tissue-Engineered Bone Constructs"

Claire Hulsebosch, Ph.D.

Vice Chair & Professor

University of Texas Medical Branch

Department of Anatomy & Neurosciences

"Recovery after spinal cord injury: Disproving the Edwin Smith Papyrus"

Nader Engheta, Ph.D.

Professor

University of Pennsylvania

Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering

"Seeing the Invisible: From Polarization-Sensitive Visual Systems in Nature to Bio-Inspired Sensing and Imaging Science "

Warren S. Warren, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry
Director, Center for Molecular and

Biomolecular Imaging Frick Laboratories

Princeton University

"Using Novel Molecular Coherences to Enhance MR and Optical Imaging"

Ali Khademhosseini, MASc

Ph.D. Candidate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Bioengineering

"Microscale approaches for controlling the in vitro cellular
microenvironment"

Justin Hanes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University

"Overcoming Extra- and Intracellular Barriers to Effective Drug and Gene Delivery"

David Schaffer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of California at Berkeley

Department of Chemical Engineering &

The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

"Molecular Engineering of Gene and Stem Cell Therapies"

Marcus Covert, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar

California Institute of Technology

"Model-driven biological discovery "

Mehmet Faith Yanik

Ph.D. Candidate

Stanford University

"Bio and nano-photonics: femtosecond laser
nano-surgery and nerve regeneration in C. elegans, quantum coherent photon
stopping and storage with photonic nano-structures"

Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of California, Santa Barbara

Department of Chemical Engineering

"A future without the needles: Transdermal Delivery of Drugs"

Cameron C. McIntyre

Assistant Professor

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

"Neuroengineering Through Deep Brain Imaging and Manipulation"