Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Engineering of the Vascular System

About

Bingmei M Fu is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The City College of the City University of New York. She received her BS and MS in Modern Mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the City University of New York and her postdoctoral training in School of Medicine at the University of California Davis. Prior to her appointment at City College she was an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her major research activities involve modelling nano and micro transport phenomena in the microcirculation and corresponding in vivo animal and in vitro culture cell experiments. Neil T. Wright is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He received his BS in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech his MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his appointment at Michigan State he was an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His laboratory measures the thermophysical properties of biological materials and superconducting niobium.