Dr. Rajagopalan is the Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech. She serves as the Program Director for an Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program on Computational Tissue Engineering at Virginia Tech. In 2017, she was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2010, Dr. … Read more
Colin R. Parrish, Ph.D. is the John M. Olin Professor of Virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. He is a BSc (Hons.) graduate of Massey University in New Zealand where he majored in Microbiology and Biochemistry. A Ph.D. in Virology from Cornell University in 1984 was followed by postdoctoral studies on … Read more
I am a Professor of Regenerative medicine at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. The goal of my current and future research is to apply regenerative medicine and tissue engineering strategies to develop new clinical treatments for lung disease and injuries. These strategies include organ-on-a-chip technologies … Read more
X.J. Meng is a University Distinguished Professor of Molecular Virology with joint appointments in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Immunobiology from Iowa State University (Ames, IA) and completed his postdoctoral training at NIAID, NIH (Bethesda, MD). Meng has been a faculty member … Read more
Dr. Marr leads the Applied Interdisciplinary Research in Air Laboratory, which studies pollutants in indoor and outdoor air. She is especially interested in emerging or non-traditional aerosols such as microorganisms and engineered nanomaterials and how they are transformed in the environment. Prior to the pandemic, she was one of a small number of researchers who … Read more
Lisa M Lee, PhD, MA, MS is senior associate vice president for research and innovation and professor of public health at Virginia Tech. She is an epidemiologist, bioethicist, and ethics educator. In the Obama administration, she served as executive director of the presidential bioethics commission. For over 25 years, Lee served in state, federal, and … Read more
Dr. Adam Lauring is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Michigan. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Lauring pursued his post-graduate clinical and research training at the University of California, San … Read more
Dr. Kylene Kehn-Hall is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and the Director of the Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens (CeZAP) at Virginia Tech. Dr. Kehn-Hall received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from The George Washington University. She established her independent virology … Read more
Dr. Anuj Karpatne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where he develops data mining and machine learning methods to solve scientific and socially relevant problems. A key focus of Dr. Karpatne’s research is to advance the field of knowledge-guided machine learning for applications in several domains including climate … Read more
James Henderson, PhD, is an Assistant Research Scientist in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He has a BS in Mathematics from Michigan State University, a Masters in Secondary Education from American University, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan. A statistician, data scientist, and health services researcher, his research focuses … Read more
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