Editor-in-chief
Prof. Hans Laufer
University of Connecticut, USA
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
University of South Carolina
United States of America
Prof. Esmaiel Jabbari is a Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the Director of Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery at the University of South Carolina, USA. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in Chemical Engineering in 1993. Prof. Jabbari research is focused on engineering 3D multi-cellular co-culture systems and the effect of spatio temporal delivery of growth factors and physico-mechanical factors in the micro environment on function and fate of stem cells in 3D co-culture systems for applications in skeletal tissue regeneration and cancer stem cell therapy. Prof. Jabbari research is supported by NIH, NSF, AO Orthopedic Foundation, and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation. Prof. Jabbari currently serves as the Technical Chair as well as the Programming Chair for Bionanotechnology theme for the annual conference of Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS).