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Jianhua QinProfessor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jianhua Qin is currently the Chair Professor at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), where she has served on the faculty since 2007. She is also the joint professor at CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, and Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS. Her research interests include the engineered living systems with healthy and diseased organ functions for biomedical applications, by combining microfluidics, stem cell biology and medicine. She obtained her M.D. from China Medical University, and Ph.D in Chemistry from CAS, with a visiting professor in the University of Hong Kong and University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Associate Editor of Lab on a Chip. |
David WeitzProfessor, Harvard University David A. Weitz is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, where he has an appointment in both the Physics Department and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Waterloo, and his PhD in Physics from Harvard. His research efforts include soft matter physics, biophysics and biotechnology. He is co-Director of Harvard's NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative. |
Jackie YingExecutive Director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Jackie Y. Ying received her B.E. and Ph.D. from The Cooper Union and Princeton University, respectively. She joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, where she was Professor of Chemical Engineering until 2005. She has been the Founding Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore since 2003. For her research on nanostructured materials, Prof. Ying has been recognized with the American Ceramic Society Ross C. Purdy Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, American Chemical Society Faculty Fellowship Award in Solid-State Chemistry, Technology Review’s Inaugural TR100 Young Innovator Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Allan P. Colburn Award, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry-BASF Award in Materials Chemistry, Wall Street Journal Asia’s Asian Innovation Silver Award, International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jubilee Medal, Materials Research Society Fellowship, Royal Society of Chemistry Fellowship, and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellowship. |
Johnson ZhangVice President And General Manager, PerkinElmer Asia Pacific Johnson Zhang, ??,Vice President and General Manager of PerkinElmer Diagnostics BU for APAC. He joined PerkinElmer in 2009 with the acquisition of Symbio, he was the Chairman and CEO of Symbio, which he founded in 2000. Symbio is a famous Chinese IVD manufacturer, one of the biggest infectious disease IVD reagent and instrument suppliers in China. From end of 2009, Johnson was leading PerkinElmer Diagnostics business in APAC, focus on Infectious Disease, Neoborn Screening and Maternal Fetal Health areas. He is experienced in R&D, production, Selling Marketing and business development management for IVD products, especially immunochemistry and molecular platforms. |
