Eiichiro Ichiishi, M.D., Ph.D. male, graduated from medical department, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in 1992. He studied at Tokyo University as a special research student from 1998-2000. Since 2003, he became associated professor of Tohoku University, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NIChe). From 2007, he was promoted to professor of Japan Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). From 2007-2008, He joined Tohoku University Bioengineering Research Organization (TUBERO) and Medical Department of Tohoku University as visiting professor. In 2010, He was appointed Professor in Internal Medicine at International University of Health and Welfare Hospital.

Simulating and Prediction of Bio-Macromolecular Interactions, Application to Analysis of Cellular Processes Mechanisms, Identification of the Genes Responsible to Anticancer Promoting Effect, Application of the Combination of DNA Chip Technology and Cell Signaling Network Data Base.

Dr. Nazeih Botros, Ph.D., is the Coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is also a Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineeringat Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He obtained his Ph.D. degree fromUniversity of Oklahoma in 1985. His research focuses on smart devises, modeling and simulation of biological mechanisms, pattern recognition and digital signal analysis. Dr. Botros is a senior member of IEEE and a member of several biomedical engineering advisory committees. He has authored a book in hardware simulation. He has numerous publications in conferences and Journals.

Bioengineering, Speech Recognition, Neural Networks, ASICs and Hardware Description Language, Computer Architecture

Dr. David Wood received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2001. Currently he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. He is also serving as an editorial board member for several reputed journals including the Journal of Biochemical Technology and the Journal of Chemical Engineering Process Technology. He has authored over 35 refereed research articles five book chapters two successful patent applications and co edited one volume He is a member of several professional societies including the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was also awarded an NSF career award in 2004.

Single molecule detection of biomarker of breast cancer cells • Design and fabrication of Lab-on-a-chip based salinity microsensors for water quality monitoring • Integrated microsensor device for real time tracking bacterial chemotaxis • Electronic and optical sensing DNA at biointerfaces (electrochemistry, scanning tunnelmicroscopy, molecular beacon) • Bioimaging and probing cellular responses to chemical and mechanical stimuli at single cell level • Biocorrosion and biocompability study of surface engineered biomedical implant materials

Dr. Thomas Webster, Ph.D. (H index 51) is the professor and chair of the Chemical Engineering Department in Northeastern University. The primary focus of his research is the design, synthesis, and evaluation of nanomaterials for various medical applications. This includes self-assembled chemistries, nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanostructured surfaces for a diverse range of tissues, i.e. bone, cartilage, skin, neural, bladder and cardiovascular. Prof. Webster has started 9 companies.

Professor Webster′s research explores the use of nanotechnology in numerous applications. Specifically, his research addresses the design, synthesis, and evaluation of nanophase (that is, materials with fundamental length scales less than 100 nm) materials as more effective biomedical implants. These include self-assembled organic materials which mimic the natural nanometer dimensions of tissues.

Dr. Aihua Liu is a Full Professor of Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy & Bioprocess, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he leads the Laboratory of Biosensing. He received his PhD degree from Tohoku University, Japan (2004) with major in bioelectrochemistry and biosensing. His research interests cover Nano-bio Controllable Self-Assembly, Biochips, Bisensors and Biofuel Cells. Dr Liu is the managing editor to Frontiers in Bioscience. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Materials, Analytical Chemistry and Biosensors & Bioelectronics.

Dr Liu’s research interests cover Controllable Self-Assembly, Biochips, Bisensors and Biofuel Cells.

Dr. Zhixiong Guo has received his PhD in Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York during the period of 1999 to 2001. Currently, he is a full Professor in School of Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has authored/coauthored over 160 research articles/books. His pioneering work on ultrafast laser interaction with tissue and nearfield optical detection of nanoentities is well cited in the field and has an author h-index of 21 in SCI. His research has been funded by NSF, MTF, NIH, USDA, NSFC, and other sources. He is a Fellow of ASME and has served as an organization/program member in a number of international conferences. He is an editor/associate editor and editorial member for several international journals.

Laser Biomedical Applications; Biophotonics; Tissue Engineering; ThermalSciences. Research Interest

Professor Hector Fernandez has received his PhD in the Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC), Argentina (1974–1978) and was a postdoctoral research associate with Robert Osteryoung at the University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Currently, he is working as a Full Professor at the UNRC. He was Dean of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas (UNRC, 1992-1999). He has authored more than seventy research articles and book chapters and has been the editor of a book. He is a member of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET, Argentina) as a Principal Researcher. He is an AAQA, AAIFQ, SIBAE and ISE fellow and he has been honoured as President of Asociación Argentina de Químicos Analíticos (AAQA, 2007-2009) and representative of AAQA in the Red Iberoamericana de Química Analítica (RIQA, 2010-2011).

Heterogeneous reaction mechanisms of organic compounds. Electrochemistry of mycotoxins. Electrochemistry of synthetic and natural antioxidants. Electrochemistry of hormones. Studies of ultramicroelectrodes and modified electrodes by self assembled monolayers of thiols, carbon nanotubes, antibodies, etc. Their use for electroanalytical techniques. Nanotechnological devices for the determination of antioxidants, mycotoxins and hormones in real matrixes (plants, cereal, foods, sera of animal origin, etc, respectively). Chemical sensors, biosensors and immunoelectrodes.

Dr. Peng Li is currently an Application Scientist at Rheonix,where he works closely with biologists and engineers to develop sample-in result-out microfluidics-based molecular diagnostic devices. He has authored and co-authored 15 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and he currently holds 2 US provisional patents in the area of microfluidics. He is also a reviewer of several reputed journals including Lab on a Chip, Applied Physics Letter, Nanotechnology, etc.

Microfludics

Dr. Emm. Mic. Drakakis is an academic member of staff of the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, where he joined in October 2001. Dr. Drakakis has studied Physics (4-year degree) at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT) - Macedonia - Hellas, Electronic Physics and Radioelectrology (2.5-year MPhil degree) at the same university, and earned his PhD in Analog IC design under the supervision of Dr. Alison Payne from the Department of EEE-Imperial in May 2000 where he also conducted EPSRC-sponsored post-doctoral research. Dr. Drakakis has founded the Bioinspired VLSI Circuits and Systems Group whose research activities revolve around two axes: a) \"Circuits for Biology\" (inspiration drawn by the need for innovative instrumentation as dictated by a specific biological problem or application) and b) \"Circuits from Biology\" (inspiration drawn by operational, architectural and/or anatomical characteristics encountered in natural information processing systems).

Microprobes for Medicine & Biology,Spatiotemporal Physicochemical Monitoring of (Stem) Cell Cultures,Bionic Ear and Cochlear Implant Processors,Memristors,Ultra Low power Cytomimetic Circuits,Vision Processors - Cellular Nonlinear/Neural Networks,Optolelectronic Chips for Retinal Stimulation,Log-domain Ultra Low Power VLSI processing for biomedical applications,Hyperbolic-sine Ultra Low Power Ultra High Dynamic Range VLSI Processing for Biomedical Applications,Ultra Low Power (Bio)Sensor Interfacing Techniques,Short-range RF links, Biomimetic Si-Neurons & Synapses,Pulse Oximetry

Dr. Preecha P. Yupapin received his B.Ed. in Physics, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, PhD in Electrical Engineering from Srinakarinwirote University, Mahidol University and City University of London  in 1981, 1983 and 1993  respectively. He was a post-doctor research fellowship in 1994 under the European Community research project. He has been appointed as a visiting professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia since 2007. He has been promoted as a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand since 2009. He has authored/co-authored more than 401 published papers in SCOPUS database and 30 chapters and books. He has supervised 70 PhD Students and candidates in both local and international universities. He has also been appointed as an editorial board member and editor in chief of 10 international journals. Professor Yupapin is a member of Thai Institute Physics (TIP), SPIE, OSA senior membership, and was a president of the OSA-Thailand Chapter from 2002-2004.

His research interests are in nanophysics; nano-electronics; spintronics; nano-communication and networks; molecular electronics; nano-medicine and beauty  and nano-energy.

Professor Tingrui Pan received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and both the M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. In 2006, Prof. Pan joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include innovative micro-nanofabrication technologies, nature-inspired micro-nano electromechanical systems and novel bioinstrumentations for ophthalmic diagnosis and therapeutics. He has authored and co-authored more than thirty refereed journal and conference publications and held several US patent applications. He currently serves on the Editor Board of Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Pan is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award and Xerox Foundation Award, and a co-recipient of NSF EFRI Award. He founds an UC Davis international education initiative – Global Research Experience in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) Program. He also co-chairs the International Contest of Applications in Nano/Micro Technologies (iCAN) in North America.

The development of integrated lab-on-a-chip systems, surface microfluidics, polymer micro-nanofabrication, bio-inspired surfaces and multifunctional biomaterials. Leading an active research laboratory, Micro-Nano Innovations Laboratory (MiNI Lab), equipped with micro-nanofabrication equipment, Dr. Pan has been extending the power of nanofabrication and microfluidics to a variety of biomedical applications, including a) diagnosis and therapy of ocular diseases, b) ultrahigh-throughput biochemical screening c) tissue/cell engineering, d) point-of-care diagnosis e) bio-sensing and manipulation and f) regenerative medicine.

Dr. Tharshan Vaithianathan completed his BE and MEngSc (1991, 1995) from Monash University, BAppSc from Swinburne University and his PhD (2001) from University of New South Wales. He spent 5 years at the University College London as a Researcher and before returning to Australia in 2004. He is currently the leader of biomedical devices and signal processing at National Information Communication Technologies Australia which is Australia’s leading centre of excellence for ICT.

His research interests include monitoring the oxygenation of the brain in babies non-invasively using near-infrared technology, using wireless technology to monitor equine health and mainly interested in developing low cost biomedical instrumentation for medical application.

Ahmed M. Safwat was born in Egypt. He received his B.Sc. with Honours from Kuwait University. He received his M.Sc. from Queens University, where he completed his Ph.D. work in two years. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University in June 2003. He is the Founding Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Wireless Networks (AWN). Professor Safwat was the Co-Chair of the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (WirelessCom) 2005. He also served as the Publicity Co-Chair for the IEEE International Workshop on Information Assurance in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNIA) 2005. He was the Co-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2004 Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks. In addition, he was the Chairman of the IEEE IPCCC 2004 Workshop on Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications and Networks (EWCN). He was also the Chairman of the IEEE VTC 2003 Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium. He also served as the Co-Chair of the Technical Program for the Workshop on Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications and Networks (EWCN) in conjunction with IEEE IPCCC 2003. He serves on the editorial and advisory boards of many international journals and conferences, respectively. Professor Safwat has been tasked to lead cutting-edge projects in the field of wireless networks and nanotechnology. He is the inventor of many landmark technologies, including PA-VBS, Q-GSL, ECPS, E2LA, A-Cell, ACA, ECCA, MTCD, ASRS, ISRS, PIMCM, R-MIMD, X-MIMD, and E-MIMD, among others.

Safwat′s research interests include but are not limited to, wireless networks, nanotechnology, nanomedicine, bioelectronics, stochastic processes, mathematical optimization and ubiquitous/pervasive computing.

Dr. Li-Qun Gu, an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Missouri, is leading an interdisciplinary laboratory that has a long term vision: integrating biomolecular engineering with nanobiotechnology to explore life science problems and to develop sophisticated molecular diagnostic tools for personalized medicine. He received the NSF CAREER award the NIH grant to develop ultrasensitive single-molecule technology for disease biomarker detection. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in high tier journals including Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Science and PNAS. The nanopore-nanosensor he developed can detect circulating microRNAs in cancer patient plasma, offering a non-invasive approach to screening and disease diagnose.

Tracking cellular components, probing biochemical reaction, investigating bio-transportation, protein-ligand recognition, special properties of designed biopolymers, detecting pharmaceuticals and pathogen traces. The Nanopore-based single molecule detection could also play important role in proteomics and genomics.

Dr. Qasem Ramadan received his PhD in Bio-Microelectromechanical systems atNanyang Technical University in 2006.  From 2004 to 2008 he was a senior research engineer at the A-Star institute of microelectronics/Singapore. Since 2008, he is a research scientist at the Swiss Federal institute of Technology (Lausanne).

Bio-Microelectromechanical systems (Bio-MEMS), Miniaturization of in vitro physiological models (Organ-on-a-chip), Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Medical devices, Biosensors and bioelectronics

Dr. Samir M. Iqbal has received PhD from Purdue University 2007 in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Currently he is working as Assistant Professor-Electrical Engineering at University of Texas.

Novel Structures for the Biologically Important Detection, Biologically Mediated Fabrication.

Dr. K Girish Kumar, born in 1962, obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry from University of Keral and obtained his PhD in chemistry from University of Kerala. From 1989-1999, he worked as a senior grade lecturer and reader in chemistry at Ganghigram Rural University, Tamilnadu, India. In 1999 he joined as a Reader and during 2007-2010 he served as the Head of the department and is currently working as a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi. He is a visiting professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

He has published over 65 articles in national and international journals and has presented about 70 papers in various seminars/symposia including invited talks. He has research collaboration with CECRI(CSIR), Karaikudi, India, Department of Chemistry, IIT Roorke,India and  Department of Biosensors,Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. He is a fellow member of the Indian Chemical Society, Member, Managing committee, Indian Society for Electro Analytical Chemistry (ISEAC), Member, Governing Council, Inter University Centre for Nano Materials and Devices, CUSAT,  Member, Advisory Committee, Centre for Science in Society,Kochi,Chairman, Board of Studies in Chemistry ,CUSAT and Member Advisory Committee, Inter University Centre of Instrumentation, Mahatma Gandhi University,Kottayam, India, Member,American Nano Society etc. He is a peer reviewer for many  international journals such as Talanta, Bioresource Technology, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, Sensor Letters, Drug Testing and Analysis, Monatshefte für Chemie, Indian Journal of Chemistry, Indian Journal of Chemical Technology etc. He has organized many national seminars as well as many scientific programmes. He has been associated with various sponsored research projects funded by different organizations like UGC, CSIR, DRDO, DST etc. Dr. Girish has supervised 11 PhD theses and 13 M.phil theses.

S.H Sabzpoushan is with the School of Electrical Engineering in Iran University of Sciences and Technology(IUST). His main interests are in the applications of control in Medicine and industry. He has published several books in the field of the industrial control, Distributed control systems and the applications of the information technology in the control of power systems

Applications of control in Medicine and industry