Editorial Board
University of Toronto, Canada
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Houman Savoji received his Ph.D. in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at University of Montreal, Canada, with focus on “Design and Characterization of Electrospun Vascular Grafts”. He holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering. He worked in engineering companies as a Senior Process Engineer and R&D Researcher for 5 years before starting his Ph.D. As a Chemical and Biomedical Engineer with training, hands-on experience and strong foundation in design, fabrication and characterization of tissue engineered biomaterials, his approach is to design, develop, optimize and implement emerging engineering technologies (Cell-Electrospinning, 3D Biopronting, Microfabrication, Microfluidic platforms, etc.) for one of the most highly demanding markets in bioengineering, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and medical disciplines. Research Interest
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North Carolina State University, India
| Biography Shilpa Sivashankar is currently a postdoctoral research associate at North Carolina State University in Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering UNC/NCSU. She is lately developing organ-on-chip that could be used to study a disease model and accelerate drug delivery. She pursued Bachelors of Engineering with highest honors in biotechnology engineering from Sapthagiri College of Engineering Bangalore, India in 2008. In 2008 she joined Micro System and Control Laboratory, Taiwan to pursue her postgraduate studies and in 2012, she received her Ph.D. from the power mechanical engineering department at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. Later she worked at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia as a postdoctoral fellow. Her interdisciplinary studies have led to the development of Microelectromechanical systems for the electro-kinetic study of cells, micro fluidic devices for tissue engineering and drug discovery applications. She developed bioreactor to culture and regenerate ‘mm’ sized liver tissues for long-term. She developed 3D liver tissue on-chip using hydro gel scaffolds and dielectrophoretic-cell-patterning technique to mimic liver tissue on-chip. She has worked on detection of proteins using biosensors and micro fluidic applications for drug delivery/discovery. She is lately developing organ-on-chip devices that could be used to study a disease model and accelerate drug delivery. Over the years, she has been developing micro fluidic devices that find applications and benefit the field of personalized medicine. Research Interest
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Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, USA
| Biography Steven C. Batterman, Ph.D., engineering consultant and Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, is an internationally recognized authority on applied mechanics, mechanics of solids, biomechanics, forensic engineering and accident reconstruction. He received his B.C.E. from The Cooper Union School of Engineering in 1959 and continued his education at Brown University where he received his Sc.M. (Engineering) in 1961 and his Ph.D. (Engineering) in 1964. From 1964 to 1997, he was a continuous full-time faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania where he served as a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Department of Bioengineering) with secondary appointments in the School of Medicine (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery) and in the School of Veterinary Medicine (Professor of Biomechanics in Veterinary Medicine). During his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania he engaged in pioneering research, as well as undergraduate and graduate course development, in solid mechanics, plasticity, viscoelasticity, plates and shells, bioengineering (including biomechanics, orthopaedic biomechanics, dental biomechanics), and forensic engineering. In 1997 he retired from the University of Pennsylvania as a Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering (Biomechanics) and a Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering in Orthopaedic Surgery but actively continued as a consultant and doing research in forensic engineering, biomechanics and accident reconstruction. He has made fundamental research contributions in numerous areas which include, but are not limited to, plastic buckling, stress analysis, development of rate equations for plates and shells, plasticity, thermoplasticity, biomechanics, injury mechanics, failure analysis, and mechanics of adhesion. His areas of expertise in forensic engineering include accident reconstruction, occupant kinematics, vehicle dynamics, biomechanics, mechanics of human injury, crashworthiness, restraint systems, products liability, safety engineering and human factors. He holds numerous honors and awards, has lectured internationally, has published extensively, is the holder of two United States patents, and is the first engineer in the world to be elected President (1994-95), and a Distinguished Fellow (2001), of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Research Interest
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
| Biography Xiaokun Wang research is focused on biomaterials and regenerative medicine, with the aim of developing more favorable scaffolds for repairing various types of human tissue. Such biomaterial scaffolds play a critical role in supporting cell growth, and providing biological cues to direct cell differentiation and enhance maturation. While many tissues like bone and muscle have a high capacity for cellular regeneration, other like cartilage and cornea tissue are far more difficult to self-renew after damage. In response to this, different strategies are needed to effectively repair various types of target tissue. Her research has focused on both areas of tissue regeneration, specifically osseointegration and corneal reconstruction. She started with osteoblast and mesenchymal stem cells response on different scaffolds, including TiO2 and TiO2-SiO2 electrospun meshes, and titanium 3D scaffolds. She designed porous TiO2 scaffolds with different fibous structures and micropattern, incorporated electrospinning techniques with sol-gel ceramic reaction to obtain the desirable structures, and then evaluated osteoblast response on these surfaces. She found both nano-scale and micro-scale textures impact osteoblast maturation, with this knowledge, They are able to design an implant texture that promotes osseointegration, and prolongs the lifetime for orthopedic implants. Research Interest
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Ohio State University, USA
| Biography Toshiharu Shinoka is a Professor of Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is a director of cardiovascular tissue engineering program of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Heart Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the Hiroshima University, He received his medical degree from Hiroshima University School of Medicine and completed his surgical training, including fellowships in adult and pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, at Tokyo Women’s Medical University. He spent three years at Boston Children’s Hospital between 1994 and 1997 as a research associate. He became an associate professor in pediatric heart surgery at Tokyo Women’s Medical University in 2001and became a professor in 2004. He joined Yale University as a director of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2007. He moved to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in 2012. His clinical interests are in the areas of the surgical treatment and repair of newborns with congenital heart defects and cardiopulmonary transplantation. In his tenure at Yale University, he completed the first successful Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft implantation in the United States in 2011. He successfully completed three additional tissue engineered vascular graft implantations in Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His work has helped expand the hospital’s Tissue Engineering Program for congenital heart surgery, making The Heart Center an international treatment center for patients coming from all over the world. His research interests focus on the development of second-generation of tissue engineered vessels for the repair of congenital heart defects. He has authored 220 publications and presented to both national and international audiences on his surgical and tissue engineering procedures to treat cardiac malformations and congenital heart disease. Research Interest
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University of Leeds, UK
| Biography Xuebin Yang, the head of tissue engineering research at School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, UK, is also a ‘Concurrent Professor’ in Nanjing University, China; ‘Invited Professor’ in Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan and ‘Honorary Professor’ in Henan University of Science and Technology, China. He is now the Postgraduate Research Tutor at School of Dentistry. His research profile combines 12 years’ expertise in clinical orthopaedics with highly specialised research expertises (1999-) in skeletal tissue engineering using stem cell therapy, biomimetic biomaterials and in vitro, in vivo models. Originally a orthopaedic surgeon, He completedhis primary medical education in 1984. Subsequently, he was awarded an MSc degree in hand/microsurgery (1992) and a PhD degree in bone tissue engineering (2002). He currently lead a team of 12 PhD students and a postdoctoral fellow who are working on stem cell therapy and skeletal tissue engineering. He holds a Home Office Project License for 8 different in vivo models for pre-clinical testing. He plays a key role in the University’s major tissue engineering and regenerative medicine research programmes (WELMEC, CDT, IKC, LMBRU, Regener8). He developed and provide leadership (PIs) for 6 international consortia including partners in USA, Japan, New Zealand, China, Australia and EU countries. He has been the Honorary Treasurer & Trustee of the British Orthopaedic Research Society, the vice-president of the Luoyang Hand Surgery Society, a member of the scientific committees for many prestigious conferences, grant review panels (e.g. FP7, Horizon2020, NSFC) and editorial board for professional journals. Research Interest
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Imperial College London, United Kingdom
| Biography Dr. Liliang Ouyang is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. He got his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University as a Distinguished Doctorate (First Class). He also got the training in Bioengineering by taking a one-year visiting research in the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ouyang’s interest is in tissue engineering, biomaterials, biofabrication and 3D bioprinting. He has been recognized for his research work in these areas by lots of awards, including GE Foundation Tech Award (2016), Best Poster Awards in 252th ACS Annual Meeting (2016) and ISBF Annual Meeting (2017), Best Doctoral Dissertation (2017) and CSC Scholarship Award (2015). Research Interest · 3D Bioprinting · Biofabrication · Hydrogels · Tissue engineering · Growth factor delivery · Vascularization |  |
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
| Biography Dr. Zhang got his Bachelor in mechanical engineering (metal forming) in 1985 in Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST) and Ph.D in 1996 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST),China. He worked as a visiting scientist in National University of Singapore from 1998 to 1999 and later as a senior search engineer for 3 year in Institute of High Performance of Computing in Singapore.In 2003, he was recruited by HUST as an associate professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering. HUST is often recognized among top 10 of universities in China. He was promoted as a full professor in 2007. His major interests are bio-printing and precision metal forming. He is a well-known researcher in sheet metal fine blanking and delivered more than 8 invited technique reports on different domestic and international conference.He started to work on the bio printing from 2007. Up to now he has guided more than 16 graduate students (including 3 Ph.Ds) and published more than 20 SCI journal papers in this area in last decade. His group was specialized in multi-nozzlebio-printer development (pneumatically assisted and motor assisted printing nozzle and electrospinning nozzle) and printing process optimization for different bio materials. They developed fine HA scaffolds for in vivo and in vitro test. They got PCL nanofibre as thin as 200nm through green solvent. Prof.Zhang is keen on cooperating with multi-discipline experts from biology and medical science. Currently, his major interest is cell and organ printing and fabrication. Research Interest
3D Bioprinting and scaffold engineering
Precision Engineering
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University of Central Florida, USA
| Biography Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya is a Professor and Head of Neuroscience in University of Central Florida, College fo Medicine since 2004. He is a Chair of Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Alliance and a Chair of Central Florida Chapter of Society for Neuroscience. He has been conducting adult stem cell research to treat neurodegenerative diseases and published more than 200 papers with more than 5700 citations. He is also a founder and chair of Progenicyte, which is a biotech company holding his 67 patent licenses, including a revolutionary process of creating pluripotent stem cells from patient's own cells and a novel compound to increase endogenous stem cells. Research Interest
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Rowan University, New Gersey
| Biography Dr.Noshadi is an Assistant Professor at Rowan University. His background is in polymer and specialty material synthesis for chemical and biomedical applications. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2015 with a focus on the synthesis of heterogeneous materials for catalytic applications. He led scientific teams to engineer, design and commercialize biochemical processes in the award-winning collaborative works with several start-up companies. He joined Harvard University in 2015 as a postdoctoral fellow and his area of research features design and synthesis of novel polymers and biomaterials for tissue engineering applications and biomedical devices. Research Interest My research interests lie at the interface of catalysis, biology, and micro- and nano- engineering technologies. Overall, my research focus on three main areas including:
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Oxford University, England
| Biography Daniel Nieto holds a Master on Experimental Physics and a PhD on Photonics and Laser Technologies at the University of Ireland and Santiago de Compostela, with postdoctoral research stays at Harvard Medical School and Oxford University. His background is on microfabrication for microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip and manufacturing testbed for creating electrically, optically and thermally activated biomaterials. He is interested o developing new biofabrication tools for 3D complex tissue engineering in combination with bioelectronics and intelligent biomaterials. Research Interest · Biofabrication · 3D in vitro models · Tissueengineering · Regenerative medicine · Biomaterial scaffolds · Additivemanufacturing · Biosensorn and Bioelectronics |  |
Queensland University of Technology, China
| Biography Dr Ying Yang is now a Researcher Associate at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She holds Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Management (June, 2012) and PhD degree from Southwest Jiaotong University, China (June, 2017). She was awarded with the Outstanding Graduate in SWJTU in 2016. Her PhD project focuses on the development of biomimetic/bioinspired materials for biological application and new strategies based on biomimetic endothelium function for addressesing the long term complications associated with blood-contacting devices, especially for vascular stents. Her research interest includes tissue engineering, bone and soft tissue regeneration, immunology, surface modification and patterning, biomimetic/bioinspired materials, coagulation mechanism, synthesis of nitric oxide-generating coatings and drug delivery. She is now the Chief Investigator of ITI Research Grant (International Team for Implantology, Switzerland) and IHBI ECR Development Scheme (QUT). She also participates in two projects from Natural Science Foundation of China. She finished the Cultivation Program for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of SWJTU and the Science and Technology Innovation Project of Sichuan Province, China during her PhD journey. To date, she has (co)authored 16 SCI journal papers and 7 conference abstracts, including Biomaterials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journey of Materials Chemistry B, etc. She is the peer reviewer of journey Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. Research Interest
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