Insights of Biomedical Research

Prof. Bharat Bhushan is Howard D Winbigler Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Director of Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State University of Columbus, USA. He received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from University of Colorado (1976). He worked as Program Manager in R&D Division of Mechanical Technology Inc, Latham, NY. He also worked as Development Engineer/Manager of General Products Division Lab at IBM Corporation, Tucson. Prof. Bhushan's Research interests include fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques.

Prof. Michael W Popejoy is Professor of Public Health in Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Robert Stempel School of Public Health and Social Work at Florida International University, USA. He received his M.S in Health Administration from Strayer University, Ph.D from College of Urban and Public Affairs, Florida Atlantic University. He is also Professor of Health Care Management and Director of the Health Care Management Program, Charlotte, North Carolina. His research interest include Big Data Predictive Analytics and data mining.

Prof. Cheng-fu Chen is Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000), and MS in Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University (1990). He also worked as Associate Professor in Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research interests includes bioengineering, microfluidics, and thermomechanical aspects of electronic packaging.

Prof. James Liang is Professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D in Biopolymers at NanKai University (1993). He completed his Postdoctoral Training from College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, United States. He also worked as Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His research interests includes therapeutic peptides and drug delivery technology.

Prof. Zhongwei Li is a Professor of Biomedical Science in Department of Biomedical Science, Charles E Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, USA. He teaches biomedical science courses for first year medical program and graduate programs. His research primarily focuses on RNA damage control and prevention of human diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson. Prof. Zhongwei goals are to develop RNA damage biomarkers and identifying protective genes to cope with degenerative disorders. In addition, he is studying bacteria aiming to develop treatment of infectious diseases, including identification of bacterial genes involved in infection, different pathways for bacterial RNA metabolism, and methods for quick diagnosis of bacteria in clinical settings. His research focuses on RNA damage control and its impact on human health and the second area of his research is bacterial RNA metabolism and infectious diseases. He is also working on a project for bacterial identification in clinical samples.

Dr. Malak Pirtskhalava is Head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics, I.Beritashvili Center of Experimental Biomedicine, Georgia. He received his Ph.D from Institute of Physics Georgian Academy of Sciences (1985). He also worked as a Director (Head) of the Research Department. His Current research interests: sequence alignment, threading, fold recognition, antimicrobial peptide prediction, antimicrobial peptide database.

Dr. Francesco Mollica is Associate Professor in Department of Engineering at University of Ferrara, Italy. He received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, USA(2000). He also worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara. His research interest includes Rheology, Polymer engineering, Polymer processing, Polymeric and Composite Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Solid Mechanics, Finite Element Method, Viscoelasticity, Plasticity, Fluid Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics.

Dr. Takahashi is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She trained as a medical student for five years and then received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Chiba University School of Medicine in Japan. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in brain imaging of long-term memory and underlying white matter structures at the Boston University School of Medicine and in high-resolution diffusion MRI on developing brains at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and joined the faculty of Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 2010. Her specific interests are concerned with the uniqueness of human brain development, particularly the structural basis underlying normal, unique brain functions in humans. She studies typically developing fetuses, children, and young adults as well as those with or at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders employing diffusion, structural, and functional MRI techniques in her research with combining additional methods.