Yoon-Kyoung ChoProfessor, 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. |
Lorena DiéguezLeader 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. |
Yanwei JiaAssociate Professor, University of Macau Dr. Yanwei Jia obtained her Ph.D. from National University of Singapore, and postdoctoral training at Brandeis University in the US. She is currently an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, Institute of Microelectronics at University of Macau. Dr. Jia’s research focuses on the development of digital microfluidics and its application in biomedicine. She has published over 70 papers in JACS, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, ACS Sensors, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Lab Chip, and Trends in Analytical Chemistry etc. She has been granted with over 20 national and international patents, most of which have been successfully commercialized. She has won the 1st prize in the UM and BoC Trophy UltiMater Entrepreneur Competition, the Best Paper Award in IEEE Biosensors, and Innovation Awards in several international conferences. Based on the technologies she developed, she has co-founded a start-up company, ProMed Precision Medicine Co. Ltd. in Zhuhai. |
Chenzhong LiX.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. |
Noo Li JeonProfessor, Seoul National University
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Chwee Teck LimNUS 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. |
Yan-Jun LiuProfessor, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University Yan-Jun Liu is a Professor at the Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University. Her research focuses on microfluidics, organ-on-a-chip, cell microenvironments reconstitution and cell behaviors study. Dr. Liu has made foundational contributions to the field, most notably discovering how confinement and low adhesion trigger the rapid amoeboid transition in traditionally slow mesenchymal cells. She has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, including Cell, Nature Methods, PNAS, PRL, JACS, Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, Nano. Lett., Anal. Chem., among others. Dr. Liu has served as principal investigator on multiple research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and the Young Thousand Talents Program. In 2020, she, together with Verena Ruprecht and Andrea Pauli, was awarded the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigator Award. |
