3^rd Biomedical Engineering and Expo November 07-08, 2016 Barcelona, Spain

Esmaiel Jabbari completed his PhD at Purdue University and postdoctoral studies at Monsanto, Rice University, and Mayo Clinic. He is Full Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Director of Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at University of South Carolina. He is internationally known for his work on synthesis and processing of cell-responsive polymers and hydrogels for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He received the Berton Rahn Award from the AO Foundation in 2012 and the Stephen Milam Award from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation in 2008. He was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2013. He has published >230 books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference proceedings, and presented >260 seminars at national and international conferences on biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery. He has mentored >130 visiting scholars, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral students, and undergraduate students. He is a member of numerous scientific organizations including BMES, SFB, TERMIS, MRS, EMBS, ACS, AIChE, and AACR.

Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Stem Cell Engineering, Drug Delivery

Dr. Fenniri was educated at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, receiving his undergraduate degree in chemistry and biochemistry (1989, top of his class), and his M.Sc./Ph.D. degrees in supramolecular science and engineering (1990/1994) under Nobel Laureate Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. He then joined the Scripps Research Institute in California, USA, where he carried out his postdoctoral training under the supervision of Professor Richard A. Lerner. In 1997 he moved to Purdue University, where he initiated his independent academic career, and established the Purdue Laboratory for Chemical Nanotechnology (1999). In 2003, He joined National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) as a founding member and the University of Alberta where he led the Supramolecular Nanoscale Assembly program.Dr. Fenniri is the recipient of several academic and professional honours and awards, including the Xerox UAC Award (2006–2008), the 3M Faculty Award (2000, 2002), the Showalter Trust Fund Award (1999, 2001), the Trask Trust Fund Technology Innovation Award (2000), the Cottrell Teacher Scholar Award (2000–2005), and the US National Science Foundation Career Award (1999–2003). Dr. Fenniri is Member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals and serves on several national and international scientific boards, panels, and committees

self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry, nanomedicine, and materials sciences.

Dr. Chen Peng is a professor in the School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). He is a member of NTU research council and Director of Therapeutic Medical Devices Program for Nanyang Institute of Technology in Health and Medicine (NITHM). Working in the areas of nanotechnologies and bionanotechnologies, he has published >150 papers in reputable journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Chemical Society Reviews, etc., which have received >8000 citation counts according to Web of Science.

Working in the areas of nanotechnologies and bionanotechnologies, he has published >150 papers in reputable journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Chemical Society Reviews, etc., which have received >8000 citation counts according to Web of Science.

Kenneth P Grismore completed his PhD from University of South Carolina. He is the CEO of Xacobo Bio-Engineering a research facility. He has published and has written textbooks for AP Biology for State and Private Institutions in Charleston

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Bhanu Bahl is Director for Informatics at Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. She is Director of the eagle-i semantic-search platform facilitating discovery of biomedical resources for translational science research across 38 academic/ not-for profit institutions. Bhanu is also director of software Quality Assurance Shared Services (QASS) at Harvard Catalyst supporting manual and automation QA needs for +37 informatics projects leveraging Best practices, technology and process optimization. She is also director of Shared Health Research Information Network(‘SHRINE’), a federated query application, which provides investigators the ability to perform population based research and feasibility studies across multi-hospital institutions.

Bhanu is a physician with a broad informatics background and has over 15 years of experience in overseeing technology projects in clinical and biological data repository; master data management; data standards; and content management.

Dr. Guertin has 27 years of experience in spinal cord research and 15 years of experience in science leadership. He was President and CEO of NeuroSpina Therapeutics between 2005 and 2008 and Chief Scientific Officer of Eurymedon HealthCare during the same period. Over the years, he has obtained 4.6 million dollars in financing from not-for-profit public agencies and private foundations to conduct fundamental research in rodents, drug development and clinical studies. He has developed a cutting-edge expertise in spinal cord injury and aging, metabolic problems, urogenital and bowel problems, and musculoskeletal and skin degradation. In addition to his current position as President and CEO of Nordic Life Science Pipeline, he holds also positions as Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Neurosciences at Université Laval (2001 - present) and as of Director/Principal Investigator of the Spinal Cord Injury and Functional Recovery Laboratory (2002 - present) based in Québec City (Laval University Medical Center – CHU de Québec). As a leading scientist, he is author and co-author of more than 100 publications (articles, reviews, book chapters, patents, etc.) since 1990. He acts also as editorial board member, referee and reviewer for several biomedical journals and North American granting agencies such as CIHR, NSERC, FRSQ, and CDMRP.

Prof. Dr. Guertin has been exploring for 30 years the physiology of motor control and movement. He spent 27 years specifically studying the neurological system and 15 years in science leadership positions as academic laboratory director and executive (CEO, CSO, COO) for several biopharmaceutical companies. He developed a cutting-edge expertise in spinal cord injury, aging, metabolic, urogenital, bowel, musculoskeletal and skin problems. As an inventor and serial entrepreneur, he is passionate about preclinical, clinical and business development, from bench-to-bedside, of first-in-class medicines for people with paralysis and mobility impairment due to disease or aging. His extensive hands-on multidisciplinary experience in drug discovery and development shall also serve other key players of that ecosystem such as venture capital firms, investment banks, tech-transfer organizations, patent firms and biopharmaceutical companies towards his main goal - that is improving healthcare worldwide through approval of new gold-standard medicines for significant unmet medical needs.

Sergio Arana is Director of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra and also Director of the Biomedical Devices and MEMS group and Deputy Director of the Water and Health Division at CEIT. He has been involved in more than 40 projects, both industrial and research projects and is author or co-author of more than 60 scientific and technical papers and national and international conference communications.

His research and teaching interests include bioMEMS for diagnosis and therapy, body implants, silicon processing techniques, clean room processes. He also serves as referee for several international journals focused on microsystems and bioMEMS. He was awarded as “Ambassador” of the city of San Sebastian in 2012 for his involvement in the scientific activities of the city.

George Kontaxakis is Associate Professor at the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM) and is currently Vice-Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering at UPM. He holds a PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University, NJ, USA. He held various research positions at the University Hospital Clinic of Frankfurt, German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt (Germany) and the Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia).

His main areas of scientific expertise are molecular image reconstruction, design and performance evaluation of nuclear medicine equipment as well as e-Health applications. His research work has been published at more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, and approx. 130 scientific conference proceedings.

Prof. Laura M. Lechuga received the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) in 1992. She is Full Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); since 2012 she is Adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Physics&Technology, at the Arctic University (Norway) and since 2013 she is a Distinguished Visiting professor at the Dept. of Microwaves and Photonics, School of Electrical and Computer Sciences, University of Campinas (Brazil). Prof. Lechuga is associate editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal, associate editor of the J. Optics and Laser Technology (Elsevier) and is at the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nanobiosensors in Disease Diagnosis and of the Journal of Sensors. She has been nominated as Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) in 2014, and she is a member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and member of the European Optical Society (EOS). She is a member of Permanent Steering Committees of Advanced Study Course on Optical Chemical Sensors (ASCOS) and Europt(r)ode Conference Series.

Prof. Lechuga is the Head of the Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group in the Catalan Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona (Spain). The principal focus of her research program is the technological development of photonic (plasmonics and silicon-based) and nanomechanical biosensors, their integration in portable lab-on-a-chip platforms and their application in clinical and environmental diagnostics. She has published over 160 articles, book chapters and conference proceedings, has 8 families of awarded patents at European, US or international level, and has presented more than 200 invited research papers. She has been the driving force for the establishment of one spin-off company in 2004 (SENSIA, SL) and co-founder of a new spin-off in 2010 (BIOD, SL).

Xun Chen received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2009 and his Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, in 2014, where he was a research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently, he is with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China, as a full professor. He is Director of Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Lab in HFUT. He is an IEEE member and a senior member of The Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering (CSBME). He is an editorial board member of several journals, e.g. Bioinformatics & Biological Systems, and Chinese Medical Device. He has served on a number of committees of international conferences, e.g. the IEEE CCECE (2016) and the BEGT (2015). He is the principal investigator of several research projects and has published more than 30 refereed journal/conference papers.

Prof. Xun Chen's research interests include the broad areas of statistical signal processing and machine learning in biomedical applications, e.g. biomedical data analysis, mobile healthcare, medical device design, etc..

Mohamed Salah Aouididi is actually a Biomedical Engineering Consultant at Prince Sultan Military medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He gained his Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering at Frediriciana University

Modeling and Simulation of transient compensation process in digital Input /Output circuit elements of PLC

Dr. Kenichi Takahata received the B.S. degree in Physics from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1990 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004 and 2005, respectively. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Micro/Nanofabrication and MEMS. He had held industrial research positions for twelve years with Panasonic in Japan and 3M in USA before joining UBC. He also held a visiting scientist position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for two years. Prof. Takahata has published over 100 papers and holds nine issued patents. He has served on a number of committees of international conferences, including, the IEEE MEMS, the IEEE Transducers, and the IEEE Sensors where he has been Track (Co-)Chair. In 2015, he was elected as a member of the International Steering Committee of the IEEE Transducers. He also served as the editor of two books in MEMS. He is part of the editorial boards of Frontiers for its M/NEMS section and of IET Electronics Letters, and currently serving as the guest editor of a special issue on implantable microsystems in Micromachines.

Prof. Takahata has a broad research focus around MEMS, micro/nanomanufacturing, and nanotechnology, including bioMEMS and implantable microsystems, wireless microdevices, nanomaterials integration, and microplasma control and applications.

Arkady Major received his BSc in engineering physics from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in 1997 and MSc in laser physics and nonlinear optics from Vilnius University in 1999, both in Lithuania. In 2002 he got the PhD in laser physics from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. After this Dr. Major was as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (2002 – 2007) where he worked on various nonlinear optical spectroscopy and laser microscopy projects. Dr. Major joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2007 where he is now an Associate Professor.

Dr. Major’s current research interests are in laser photonics and biophotonics. In particular, his efforts are focused on development of advanced laser sources and optical laser technologies for multiphoton imaging and spectroscopy of biological and other systems.

Mª Coronada Fernández-Calderón is Research Investigator at Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) and Associate Professor of the Biomedical Sciences Departament at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Extremadura. She has participated in large local and international projects funded through public and private entities. She is author or co-author of several scientific papers and national and international conference communications in the field of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Microbial Biofilms, Biomaterials, Medical Devices. Concerning her teaching activity, she has participated in the edition of books of microbiology and infectious diseases and teaching innovation projects.

Her research activity is mainly focused on biofilm-based healthcare-associated infections and the strategies to detect and prevent the development of microbial biofilms in biomaterials for medical devices. She also serves as referee for several international journals of the American Society for Microbiology.

Dr. Amir Sanati-Nezhad is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering with joint affiliation with the Biomedical Engineering Program and the Center of bioEngineering for Research and Education, at the Schulich School of Engineering, a member of HotchKiss Brain Institute, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, and Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute at the University of Calgary.

His laboratory is currently focused on the development of integrated bioinspired microdevices using microfluidics and tissue engineering approaches for disease modeling, biological systems modeling, and drug discovery. Another research interest of his group is to develop point-of-care devices for testing infectious diseases, and portable tools for detection of plant and food pathogens.

Salah holds PhD in Health Administration from USA, MSc in Medical Electronics and Physics from UK. Certified Consultant Engineer from Saudi Council of Engineers. He has 30 years of experience in Biomedical, Healthcare, projects and Management. Collaborate with Saudi Food and Drug Authority, Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions, Saudi Commission for Health Specialties. Founder and Member of Saudi Scientific Society for Biomedical Engineering. Participated in local and international conferences in the field of Biomedical Engineering and Project Management. Founder of the Medical Device Manual E-Library for KAMCJ. Member of many organizations.

Healthcare technology management, Clinical Engineering Management and Medical Equipment Planning and Procurement