Prof Patrick BOISSEAU is graduate from the Institut National Agronomique in 1983 and from the Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts en 1985. He holds a MSc Degree in Human Nutrition. His general academic background is therefore in biology engineering.
He joined the French Atomic Energy Commission - CEA - in 1987. He had several positions as researcher fellow in plant biology at the Life Sciences Division then as expert on strategy in life sciences and environment at the Foresight & Strategy Division. He became the deputy head of department of biology at the Life Sciences Division, based in Grenoble.
Since 2008, he is in charge of the business development in NanoMedicine at CEA-Leti, with emphasis on organic nanoparticles for diagnostics and therapy. His personal interest focuses on nanotech transfer in medical technologies.
In April 2013, he in charge of Strategic Planning in Health Technologies at CEA-Tech, the technological Research Division of CEA.
From 2004 to 2008, he is the coordinator of the European network of excellence in nanobiotechnology, Nano2Life (www.nano2life.org). This network of excellence integrates 23 full academic partners and 41 associate companies in a comprehensive joint programme of activity. More than 400 scientists are participating to this network.
In 2006, he became a Member of the Executive Board of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine, and chairman of its working group on “nanotechnology based diagnostics and imaging” (www.etp-nanomedicine.eu). In 2012, he was elected as chairman of the Board of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine.
Patrick Boisseau coordinates and/or participates to numerous French and European funded research projects in nanobiotech and nanomedicine.
Dr Nathalie Mignet is a CNRS research director, performing her research activities at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Université de Paris, where she is in charge of the UTCBS laboratory "Unité des Technologies Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Santé" and of the team “Vectors for targeted therapy and molecular imaging”. Her research dedicated to nanoparticles is interdisciplinary, at the interface between chemistry, physico-chemistry, cell biology and in vivo studies. In 2005, she was awarded as Young Research Scientist in Biophysics by the CNRS/CERC3. She has signed 99 articles and 12 book chapters. From 2012 to 2013, she was president of the GTRV; French Group dedicated to Vectorisation. In 2013, she founded SFNano, the French Society for Nanomedicine, from which she became the president in 2014 till 2020. Dr Mignet is a highly dynamic researcher involved in a number of collaborative projects with academics and industries. She was involved from 2014 to 2018 at the Ligue for Cancer, commission Technologies for Health. She is in the board of Nanomedicine, nanotechnology, biology and medicine journal as well as the DDTR: Drug Delivery and translational research
Prof. Dafiné Ravelosona is a research doctor at CNRS with 15 years of experience in spintronics and magnetic materials. He is presently the head of the Nanoelectronics department at Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale within University Paris Sud in Orsay. He has co-authored over 100 papers and filed 4 patents. He has worked in academic as well as industrial environments (visiting scientist at Hitachi GST in 2004-2005). He is presently coordinator of a collaborative European FP7 project (MAGWIRE) in charge of developing with 2 major companies ultra high density solid state memories based on magnetic domain walls. He also coordinates two US-French projects on emerging spintronics devices with a strong emphasis on education and training activities. He was recently awarded the prize 2010 of innovation at the University of Paris Sud, the prize 2011 and 2012 from the french ministry of research (OSEO) to launch the startup company SILTENE.
Prof. Albert Fert graduated from École Normale Supérieure in Paris, earned his Ph.D. at University of Paris in 1970 and became Professor of Physics at University Paris-Sud in 1976. He is Scientific Director of a joint laboratory of CNRS and company Thales, Emeritus Professor at University Paris-Sud and member of the French Academy of Sciences. The experimental (and theoretical) research of Professor Fert is in condensed matter physics (electronic and magnetic properties of solids, spintronics). He was one of the co-discoverers of Giant Magnetoresistance in 1988, a phenomenon which is well known for its application to hard discs and the resulting large increase of their storage capacity. This discovery has also triggered the development of the important research field which is called spintronics and sometimes defined as a new type of electronics harnessing the spin of the electrons. Professor Fert and his team have made significant contributions to the development of spintronics, in particular by works on the theory of spin transport (Valet-Fert model) and experiments on spin dependent tunneling, generation of microwaves by spin transfer, Spin Hall Effect, and spin transport in carbon nanotubes or graphene.
Professor Fert was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) and his contribution to the development of spin electronics, or spintronics. GMR was in particular at the origin of high-performance magnetic read heads, which are today used in all hard drives.
Other Awards and Honors of Albert Fert:
• International Prize for New Materials of the American Physical Society (1994)
• Magnetism Award of IUPAP (1994)
• Grand Prix de Physique Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society (1994)
• Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society (1997)
• Gold Medal of the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) in 2003
• Wolf Prize (2007)
• Japan Prize (2007)
• Honoris Causa Doctorate of a dozen of universities
Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon received his B. S. (1987) and M. S. (1989) in Chemistry from Seoul National University (SNU), Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from U. Illinois (1996). Since he joined the faculty of the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering of SNU in September 1997, he has been focused on the synthesis and applications of uniform-sized nanoparticles and nanoporous materials, and published > 250 papers in prominent international journals and they have been cited > 25,000 times (lifetime h-index of 84). In February 2011, he was selected as “Top 100 Chemists” of the decade (2000-2010) by UNESCO&IUPAC (ranked at 37th in chemistry; 19th in materials science). In 2012, he was appointed as a Director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science (IBS). He is Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Materials Research Society (MRS). He received many awards including the Korean Young Scientist Award (2002), DuPont Sci&Tech Award (2005), POSCO-T. J. Park Award (2008), and Hoam Prize (2012, Samsung Hoam Foundation). Since 2010, he has served as an Associate Editor of J. Am. Chem. Soc. He has been serving as editorial (advisory) board members of Advanced Materials, Nanoscale, Nano Today, and Small.
Prof. Dafiné Ravelosona is a research doctor at CNRS with 15 years of experience in spintronics and magnetic materials. He is presently the head of the Nanoelectronics department at Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale within University Paris Sud in Orsay. He has co-authored over 100 papers and filed 4 patents. He has worked in academic as well as industrial environments (visiting scientist at Hitachi GST in 2004-2005). He is presently coordinator of a collaborative European FP7 project (MAGWIRE) in charge of developing with 2 major companies ultra high density solid state memories based on magnetic domain walls. He also coordinates two US-French projects on emerging spintronics devices with a strong emphasis on education and training activities. He was recently awarded the prize 2010 of innovation at the University of Paris Sud, the prize 2011 and 2012 from the french ministry of research (OSEO) to launch the startup company SILTENE.
Dr David Carey research interests are mainly focused in:
(1) Nanotechnology and nanomaterials in particular carbon based materials (nanotubes, graphene and DLC)
(2) the applications of low dimensional materials as field emitters
(3) the structure, transport and electronic properties of nanomaterials and
(4) Commercial applications of nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Society.
Dr David is a Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology, Member of the Institute of Physics (London), Member of Institute of Engineering Technology (IET, Member of the American Physical Society (APS)), Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (2003 - present) and Member of the Management Committee of the EPSRC Network of Defects in Si and SeGe (2002 – 2004).
Prof. Vasco Teixeira has a PhD degree from University of Minho, Braga-Portugal in Applied Physics. He’s Professor, Entrepreneur and Researcher in the field of nanotechnology, nanomaterials, surface engineering, smart materials, layered nanocomposite functional thin films and nanostructured surfaces.
He is Editor-in-chief of Journal of Nano Research, JNanoR ((Honorary Editor is Nobel Prize Sir Harry Kroto). He is author or co-author of more than 110 international scientific papers (ISI), 3 ISI journal volumes, 5 book chapters, 3 awarded industry projects in national industrial innovation contests and he gave 25 invited lectures at international conferences.
He is Vice-President of the SOPORVAC-Portuguese Vacuum Society. He is member of the Executive Committee of the SNN-Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is the Chair for the European Advisory Scientific Committee of the SNN. He is member of the Executive Council (Councillor-2004-2007) and 2007-2010 Triennium of IUVSTA-International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications. He is member of Directive Council of the Portuguese Materials Society. He is Coordinator of TTES-Surface Engineering and Heat Treatment Division of the SPM-Portuguese Materials Society and Technical Advisory Member of Tribological and Decorative Coatings of the SVC-American Society of Vacuum Coaters.
Dr Nathalie Mignet is a CNRS research director, performing her research activities at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Université de Paris, where she is in charge of the UTCBS laboratory "Unité des Technologies Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Santé" and of the team “Vectors for targeted therapy and molecular imaging”. Her research dedicated to nanoparticles is interdisciplinary, at the interface between chemistry, physico-chemistry, cell biology and in vivo studies. In 2005, she was awarded as Young Research Scientist in Biophysics by the CNRS/CERC3. She has signed 99 articles and 12 book chapters. From 2012 to 2013, she was president of the GTRV; French Group dedicated to Vectorisation. In 2013, she founded SFNano, the French Society for Nanomedicine, from which she became the president in 2014 till 2020. Dr Mignet is a highly dynamic researcher involved in a number of collaborative projects with academics and industries. She was involved from 2014 to 2018 at the Ligue for Cancer, commission Technologies for Health. She is in the board of Nanomedicine, nanotechnology, biology and medicine journal as well as the DDTR: Drug Delivery and translational research
Professor Elias Siores is the Provost and Director of Research and Innovation, Bolton University. Educated in the UK (BSc, MSC, MBA, PhD) and pursued his academic career in Australia (Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne) and Asia (Hong Kong, Dong Guan) before returning to Europe (UK) as a Marie Curie Fellow. His R&D work concentrated on advancing the science and technology in the field of automated Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation including Ultrasound, Acoustic Emission, and Microwave Thermography. His recent R&D work focuses on Smart / Functional Materials and Systems development. In this area, he has developed Electromagnetic, Electrorheological, Photovoltaic and Piezoelectric Smart Materials based Energy Conversion Systems for Renewable Energy, Medical, Health Care and Wearable Devices. He has published over 300 publications including 8 Patents . He has been a member of editorial boards of international journals and a Fellow of IOM, TWI, IEAust, SAE and WTIA. He has served on Board of Directors of a number of research centres worldwide including UK, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, all associated with the Bio-Nano-Materials field. He has received 15 awards in his career for R&D achievements.
Prof. Jackie Ying is the Executive Director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.
Prof. Jackie received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and was a NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for New Materials, Germany. She was Professor of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore. Her interdisciplinary research is focused on the synthesis of nanostructured materials for catalytic and biomaterial applications. She has authored over 300 articles, and presented over 330 invited lectures at international conferences. She has over 120 patents issued or pending, and has served on the Advisory Boards of 6 start-up companies and 1 venture capital fund. She serves on the editorial board of 25 journals, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Nano Today.
Prof. Ying’s awards include the American Ceramic Society Purdy Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, Office of Naval Research and National Science Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, American Chemical Society Faculty Fellowship Award in Solid-State Chemistry, Technology Review’s Inaugural TR100 Young Innovator Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Colburn Award, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Chemical Engineering Science Danckwerts Lectureship, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry-BASF Award in Materials Chemistry, Asian Innovation Silver Award, and International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) Jubilee Medal. She was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and named one of the “One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era” by AIChE in its Centennial Celebration.
Professor Allan Hoffman studied at M.I.T., where he received B.S., M.S., and Sc.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering between 1953 and 1957. He taught on the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department at M.I.T. for a total of ten years.
For the past 44 years he has been Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington. He is also an Honorary Professor at: Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China; Shanghai University, Shanghai, China; and Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. He recently completed a four year appointment (2009-2013) as WCU Distinguished Professor at the Kyungpook National University Medical School in Daegu, South Korea.
Prof. Hoffman’s major research interests are drug delivery, diagnostic assays, “smart” polymers, hydrogels, and modification of biomaterial surfaces. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and is coinventor on over 30 issued patents. He is co-Editor (along with BD Ratner, FJ Schoen and JE Lemons) of the “Textbook of Biomaterials Science”, Elsevier Publishers, now in its 3rd Edition.
Prof. Hoffman was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005. Other recognitions and awards include the following: He was elected President of the US Society for Biomaterials in 1983. In 1990, the Japanese Society for Biomaterials awarded him their “Biomaterials Science Prize”, the first time it had ever been given to a foreigner. He received the Founder’s Award of the Society for Biomaterials (USA) in 2000. In 2003 he received the Chandra Sharma Award of the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs of India. In 2006 the Japanese Society of Polymer Science (JSPS) awarded him their prestigious “International Polymer Research Award”. In 2007 he received the Founder’s Award of the US Controlled Release Society. Special symposia have been organized to celebrate his 60th, 70th and 80th birthdays.
Prof Patrick BOISSEAU is graduate from the Institut National Agronomique in 1983 and from the Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts en 1985. He holds a MSc Degree in Human Nutrition. His general academic background is therefore in biology engineering.
He joined the French Atomic Energy Commission - CEA - in 1987. He had several positions as researcher fellow in plant biology at the Life Sciences Division then as expert on strategy in life sciences and environment at the Foresight & Strategy Division. He became the deputy head of department of biology at the Life Sciences Division, based in Grenoble.
Since 2008, he is in charge of the business development in NanoMedicine at CEA-Leti, with emphasis on organic nanoparticles for diagnostics and therapy. His personal interest focuses on nanotech transfer in medical technologies.
In April 2013, he in charge of Strategic Planning in Health Technologies at CEA-Tech, the technological Research Division of CEA.
From 2004 to 2008, he is the coordinator of the European network of excellence in nanobiotechnology, Nano2Life (www.nano2life.org). This network of excellence integrates 23 full academic partners and 41 associate companies in a comprehensive joint programme of activity. More than 400 scientists are participating to this network.
In 2006, he became a Member of the Executive Board of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine, and chairman of its working group on “nanotechnology based diagnostics and imaging” (www.etp-nanomedicine.eu). In 2012, he was elected as chairman of the Board of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine.
Patrick Boisseau coordinates and/or participates to numerous French and European funded research projects in nanobiotech and nanomedicine.
Prof. Patrick Couvreur is full Professor of Pharmacy at the Paris-Sud University and holder of the chair of “Innovation Technologique” (2009-2010) at the prestigious Collège de France. He was recently appointed as a Senior Member of the “Institut Universitaire de France”. He is the recipient of an “ERC Advanced Grant” (2010-2015).
Patrick Couvreur’s contributions in the field of drug delivery and targeting are highly recognized around the world through 430 research articles, 250 invited lectures, 59 patents and the main author/editor of 7 books (H-index 66 and 14,000 citations). His research is interdisciplinary and focuses on the conception of nanomedicines for the treatment of severe diseases (cancer, infectious diseases and neurological disorders). Methodologies are at the interface between Physico-Chemistry of Colloids, Polymer Chemistry, Material Science and Pharmacology/Cancerology. Patrick Couvreur’s research has led to the funding of two start-up companies (Bioalliance, 70 employees, and Medsqual). The major scientific contribution of Patrick Couvreur to the Pharmaceutical Sciences is also recognized by numerous international awards among which, the 1990 Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Research from the Controlled Release Society (USA), the Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year 1996 Award from the International Federation of Pharmacy (FIP), the 2004 Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress Award (Kyoto, Japon), the prestigious Host Madsen Medal (Beijin, 2007), the Marie-Maurice Janot Award Lecture (2008), the Prix Galien (2009) and the European Pharmaceutical Scientist Award (2011). His appointment as a member of four academies (Académie des Technologies, Académie de Médecine and Académie de Pharmacie in France, as well as Académie Royale de Médecine in Belgium) is another recognition of major scientific and scholarly contributions of Patrick Couvreur.
Ali Khademhosseini is a Full Professor at Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) as well as an Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He is also a Junior Principal Investigator at Japan’s World Premier International – Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR) at Tohoku University where he directs a satellite laboratory. In addition he is an adjunct faculty at the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin and an eminent scholar at Kyung Hee University in Korea.
His research is based on developing micro- and nanoscale technologies to control cellular behavior with particular emphasis in developing microscale biomaterials and engineering systems for tissue engineering. He is also developing organ on a chip systems that aim to predict human response in vitro. Currently, his laboratory is developing technologies to control the formation of vascularized tissues with appropriate microarchitectures as well as regulating stem cell differentiation within microengineered systems. His laboratory is also combining these microengineering technologies with state-of-art 3D printing and microfluidic devices to build organs-on-a-chip platforms with on-line sensing units for applications such as drug and toxin screening. He has edited multiple books and is an author on ~350 journal articles, ~50 book chapters/editorials, over 200 abstracts, and 20 patent/disclosure applications. His work has been published in leading journals and routinely highlighted in international media. He has been cited ~15500 times and has an H-index of 65. Also, he has given over 250 invited seminars and keynote lectures.
Professor Dr. Katsuyoshi Kondoh is adviser to President, Osaka University. He received both B.S./M.S. degrees and PhD from Osaka University majoring in arc welding process. His major research field is powder metallurgy materials and processing, in particular non-ferrous materials and their composites such as magnesium, titanium, aluminum and copper. He also studies on high-performance carbon nanotubes reinforced metal matrix composites and CNTs coating process for mechanical materials and biomaterials. He published more than 200 papers and has about 120 patents.
Prof. Mohamed Mohamedi received his Ph.D. in electrochemistry from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France. He is presently the head of the Electrochemistry and Micro Energetic Systems Laboratory (EMESL) at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université d’Avant-garde within the Universities of Québec, Canada. He develops nanomaterials and micro-/nano energetic systems for electrochemical and biomedical applications. Dr. Mohamedi has published over 130 research articles and has authored and co-authored over 125 conferences including several as invited or keynote speaker. He is the recipient of the Tajima Prize from the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and the Electrochemistry Communications Award 2007. He is an Editorial board member for several journals and is an active member of the American Nano Society, the Electrochemical Society, the ISE, the UNESCO CHAIR in Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage (MATECSS), the Intercollegiate Sustainable Energy Network (RIED) of Québec, and the Centre Québécois on Functional Materials.