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Peter G. Katona


Peter G. Katona, Sc.D. received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan in 1960, and his M.S. and ScD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 and 1965, respectively. He was on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University from 1969 to 1991, and served as chairman of his department from 1980 to 1988. During 1989-91 he was Program Director for Biomedical Engineering and Aiding the Disabled at the National Science Foundation. In 1991, Dr. Katona joined The Whitaker Foundation as Vice President for...

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Robert M. Nerem


Robert M. Nerem, Ph.D. joined Georgia Tech in 1987 as the Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine. He currently serves as the Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and he also is the Director of the Georgia Tech/Emory Center (GTEC) for the Engineering of Living Tissues, an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in 1964 from Ohio State University and was on the faculty there until 1979. From 1979 to 1986 he was at the University of Houston where he was chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering....

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Mehmet Toner


Mehmet Toner, Ph.D. is a Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and is a member of the Senior Scientific Staff at the Shriners Hospital for Children. Dr. Toner is also a Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Dr. Toner serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Teaching Hospitals and Director of the BioMicroElectroMechanical Systems (BioMEMS) Resource Center at the MGH. He is also...

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Martin L. Yarmush


Martin L. Yarmush, M.D., Ph.D. is an internationally recognized bioengineer and biophysical chemist, whose research interests span a wide range of topics from tissue engineering and artificial organ development to gene therapy and metabolic engineering. Winner of over 25 local and national research awards for his work in science and engineering and co-author of more than 270 publications, Dr. Yarmush also currently serves as...

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