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University of California San Diego, USA
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Adam J. Engler is a Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at UC San Diego, where he has been on the faculty since 2008. He also is a resident scientist at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Engler previously trained at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his PhD studying how ECM stiffness regulated stem cell fate. He also trained as a postdoc at Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology, funded by the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Engler has received numerous awards in recognition of this research, including awards from the Biomedical Engineering Society, American Society of Matrix Biology, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, and American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Engler is a fellow of the American Institute for Biomedical Engineering, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and a recipient of an NIH New Innovator Award.
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
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Prof. Hu received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University under the supervision of Prof. Zhen Gu in 2018. From 2018-2020, he was a postdoc associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer in Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Prof. Hu joined UW-Madison in 2020 as an assistant professor and was promoted to the Associate Professor and Joseph R. and Bonna A. Robinson Distinguished Chair in 2025 in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division at the School of Pharmacy.
University of Cambridge, UK
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Dr. Steven F. Lee is a Reader and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Department of Chemistry, specializing in biophysical chemistry. His research focuses on using single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and super-resolution imaging to study fundamental biological questions. He is also a co-founder of Zomp, a spin-out company developing new flow cytometry instruments.
University of Kent, UK
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Dr. Lei Li is an incoming Assistant Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at Rice University. His primary research interest is to build next-generation medical imaging devices to better understand the brain and more clearly perceive disease states. He has developed advanced photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT)—an non-invasive imaging modality that combines light and sound for deep-tissue imaging—to visualize wholebody dynamics, map whole-brain functional connectivity, and diagnose human breast cancer. He has developed a PACT-guided microrobotic system to navigate and control microrobots inside the body for drug delivery. He has also integrated photoswitchable proteins with PACT to monitor tumor metastasis and visualize intratumor protein interactions. Pushing the benchtop photoacoustic system toward wearable devices, he introduced ergodicity into PACT and developed a high-throughput imaging system with significantly reduced size and complexity, promising wearable applications. Dr. Li obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2019. He then continued his research at Caltech as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Medical Engineering. He will join Rice in Jan 2023 as part of the Rice Digital Health Initiative.