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Nancy AllbrittonFrank and Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington in Seattle Nancy L. Allbritton is the Frank and Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. |
Yoshinobu BabaProfessor, Nagoya University Dr. Yoshinobu Baba is Professor of Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He is also a Director of FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University and a Director of Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Nagoya University. He is an Associate Editor of Anal. Chem. of American Chemical Society and serving to over 20 scientific journals, including Nanoscale of Royal Society of Chemistry and Biomicrofluidics of American Institute of Physics, as an editorial/advisory board member. He is a co-initiator for the world largest Nanotech/Nanobio International Meeting and Exhibition in Japan and International Academy of Nanomedicine. He is a general chair of numerous international meetings (microTAS, MSB, NanoBioEXPO, ISMM). He has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received over 113 awards for his contributions in nanobiotechnology: MERCK Award in 2004, award from the Applied Physics Society of Japan in 2006, and The CSJ (Chemical Society of Japan) award for creative work in 2008. His major area of interest is nanobiosicence and nanobiotechnology for omics, systems biology, medical diagnosis, tissue engineering, and molecular imaging. He is the author or co-author of 767 publications, including research papers, proceedings, reviews, and books and is also an inventor of over 70 patents. He has delivered more than 726 plenary and invited lectures at conferences. His work has been cited on 299 occasions by newspapers and televisions. |
Jessie JeonAssociate Professor, KAIST Dr. Jessie S. Jeon is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. She received her SB, SM, and PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and worked as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) before joining KAIST. Her research focuses on the development of microfluidic platforms that can mimic organs and disease models for understanding the mechanisms of biological phenomenon, screening for drugs and utilizing them in patient-specific personalized medicine. |
Hiroshi KimuraProfessor, Micro/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University Dr. Hiroshi Kimura is a Professor in Micro/Nano Technology Center at Tokai University, where he has been since 2012. During 2017-2018 he was a visiting research fellow in the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Tokyo in 2007. From 2007 to 2012 he worked at Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo, eventually as a project assistant professor. His research interests are mainly in fundamental technologies of microfluidic devices and systems, and their applications to biological sciences including microphysiological systems. |
Hirofumi ShintakuProfessor, Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University Hirofumi Shintaku is Professor at the Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, and RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader. He has received numerous awards, including the Young Engineers Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the highest honor for young mechanical engineers. His current research focuses on technology development for single-cell biology leveraging electrokinetics in micro and nanoscale and integrating phenotyping and single-cell omics. |
Anderson ShumProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre, University of Hong Kong Ir Prof. Shum is widely recognized in emulsion, biomicrofluidics, biomedical engineering and soft matter; he receives the inaugural Hong Kong Engineering Science and Technology Award 2022, Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2020, Rising Start Award by Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam), NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund in 2019, Young Scientists Award in Microsystems and Nanoengineering Summit 2019, IEEE Nanomed New Innovator 2018, the Early Career Award by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong in 2012. He became a fellow of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 2023, a member in the Global Young Academy (first from Hong Kong) in 2021, a founding member (in 2018) and President (in 2021) in the Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2017. He serves as an associate editor for Biomicrofluidics (American Institute of Physics), editorial board member for Microsystems and Nanoengineering (Springer Nature) and Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) and an editorial advisory board member for Lab-on-a-Chip (RSC). |
Danilo TagleDirector, Office of Special Initiatives, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the NIH (NCATS) Dan Tagle is Director of the Office of Special Initiatives at NCATS where he many coordinates efforts towards development of disruptive technologies in translational research. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Wayne State University School of Medicine. He was an NIH National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow in Human Genetics at the University of Michigan. He has served on numerous committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards. He has authored many scientific publications and has garnered numerous awards, including more recently the Roscoe O. Brady Award for Innovation and Accomplishment, and the Henry J. Heimlich Award for Innovative Medicine. |
Ryuji YokokawaProfessor, Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University Ryuji Yokokawa is currently a Professor at Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, and a Visiting Researcher at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Japan. Before the current position, he was an Associate Professor Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University (2011–2019), an Assistant Professor at Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University (2009–2011), and a Lecturer at Department of Micro System Technology, Ritsumeikan University (2005–2009). He was a project researcher of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (PRESTO, JST) (2008–2014), and an adjacent faculty of World Premier International Research Center (WPI) Initiative, Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University (2010–2012). |
