Currently working as Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering Program at University of Arkansas, USA.

A background in recombinant DNA cloning, protein expression, tissue engineering, immunoassay and animal studies are preferred.

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

Diego Mantovani is currently working as Director Laboratory for Biomaterials and Bioengineering at Laval University,Canada.

Metabolism, vascular and renal health.

Professor Hector Fernandez has received his PhD in the National University of RA-or fourth UNRC Argentina during the period of 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 has successfully completed his administrative responsibilities as Dean of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas UNRC during the period of 1992-1999. He has authored more than fifty 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 a AAQA ,AAIFQ and SIBAE fellow and he has been honored as President of Asociation of Argentina Quamicos Analyticos AAQA 2007-2009 and representative of AAQA in the Red Iberoamericana de Quamica Analytica RIQA 2010.

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.

Microfludics

Zhixiong Guo has received his PhD in Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York during the period of 1999 to 2001. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor in School of Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has authored/coauthored over 120 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 15 in SCI. His research has been funded by NSF, MTF, NIH, USDA and other sources. He is a member of ASME and OSA and is currently serving as a Technical Committee Chair in HTD of ASME. He has served as an organization/program member in a number of international conferences.

Laser Biomedical Applications; Biophotonics; Tissue Engineering; ThermalSciences.

Rabah Boukherroub received a PhD in chemistry from the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. He is Associate Editor of Reviews in Advanced Sciences and Engineering, and on the editorial advisory board of Open Condensed Matter Physics Journal. He is a co-author of 220+ research publications and wrote several book chapters in subjects related to nanotechnology, materials chemistry, biosensors, and lab-on-chip devices. He has 8 patents pending.

-    Functional materials -    Surface science -    Electrochemistry -    Biosensors & Lab-on-Chip devices -    Nanomedicine