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Yoon-Kyoung Cho

Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Dean, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology)

Yoon-Kyoung Cho is currently a full professor in Biomedical Engineering and the dean of College of Information and Biotechnology at UNIST, Republic of Korea. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK), an associate editor of the journal ‘Lab on a chip’, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and vice president of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS). She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, following her M.S. and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from POSTECH in 1994 and 1992, respectively. Prior to joining UNIST in 2008, she served as a senior researcher (1999–2008) at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). Her current research focuses on lab-on-a-chip systems for detecting rare biomarkers, quantitative analysis of cell migration, and systems analysis of intercellular communication. Discover more at http://fruits.unist.ac.kr.
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Lorena Diéguez

Leader of the Medical Devices Research Group, INL- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory

Lorena Diéguez joined INL in 2014 as a Staff Researcher and is, since 2018, the leader of the Medical Devices research group. Her research is mainly devoted to Translational Medical Research in close collaboration with hospitals and focuses on the development of tools and solutions based on microfluidics, biosensors and nanotechnology towards early diagnosis and better understanding of diseases. She is also very interested in translating her technology from the lab to the clinic and is co-founder and CEO of the spin-off company RUBYnanomed in the field of liquid biopsy. Currently, she is also the Chair of the Working Group in Medical Devices at the ETPN (European Technology Platform in Nanomedicine). She obtained her Bachelors in Physics with a Major in Optoelectronics at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2005, then completed her Masters in Nanotechnology at the University of Barcelona (UB) in 2007 and her PhD in Biosensors at the UB, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia and the ETH Zürich. Her postdoc at the University of South Australia (2010-2013) was devoted to the study of rare cells from biological samples using microfluidics.

Chenzhong Li

X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Prof. Chenzhong LI is the X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) (CUHKSZ), the co-editor-in-chiefs of the international flagship journal Biosensor and Bioelectronics.

Before joining CUHK Shenzhen in 2023, Li helds positions such as the research officer at the National Research Council Canada (NRC), the World Ahead professor at Florida International University, the professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University, and the Program Director in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Division of National Science Foundation to oversee AI biosensors and biomedical devices research and manage grants for hundreds of research projects nationwide.

Li is an expert in bioinstrumentation, specifically in the development of biomedical devices for both diagnostic and therapeutic, which could also have cross-applications for environmental, food safety monitoring, agriculture, and homeland security.

Li is the Member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Member of the National Academy of Inventors, AIMBE fellow of the American Academy of Medical Biological Sciences. By 2025, he has published nearly 210 research papers, and is the main inventor of 21 international patents. He was the founder and technical director of three start-up companies in China, the United States, and Canada.

Noo Li Jeon

Professor, Seoul National University

Education
1987 – 1991 B.S., Material Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
1991 – 1997 Ph.D., Material Science and Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Professional Experience

1997 – 2000 Post Doc. Researcher, Chemistry Department
Harvard University
2000 – 2001 Post Doc. Researcher, Biomedical Engineering
Harvard Medical School
2001 – 2007 Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
University of California,Irvine
2007 – 2009 Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
University of California,Irvine
2009 – 2012 Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Seoul National University
2013 – Present Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
Seoul National University

Chwee Teck Lim

NUS Society Chair Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore

Professor Chwee Teck LIM is the NUSS Chair Professor and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore. He has coauthored over 500 journal publications and cofounded six startups with one public listed in 2018. Prof Lim is an elected Fellow of nine academies and organizations including the Royal Society UK, US National Academy of Inventors, IUPESM, AIMBE, IAMBE, Singapore National Academy of Science and Academy of Engineering Singapore. He has garnered numerous research awards including Nature Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Science, Highly Cited Researcher, Asia’s Most Influential Scientist Award, Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award (Gold) and the President's Technology Award.