Advances in Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Science

Henry M. Sobell completed his studies at Brooklyn Technical High School (1948-1952), Columbia College (1952-1956), and the University of Virginia School of Medicine (1956-1960). Instead of practicing clinical medicine, he then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to join Professor Alexander Rich in the Department of Biology (1960-1965), where, as a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, he learned the technique of single crystal X-ray analysis. He then joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester, having been subsequently jointly appointed to both the Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics departments (the latter at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry), becoming a full tenured Professor in both departments (1965-1993). He is now retired and living in the Adirondacks in New York, USA.

University of Virginia School of Medicine

After her MD from Medical school of University Kunming, China and her PhD thesis on inner ear cell degeneration and therapies from University of Montpellier, France. Jing Wang is the team leader of “Sensory loss and rescue” group at the Institute of Neurosciences of Montpellier, France. During her career, Jing Wang has more than 42 research publications, 9 book chapters and more than 150 communications or posters.

She supervised 7 PhD students and 4 Postdoctoral researchers, She is member of the Editorial Boards of international journals and regular reviewer for the international journals. In addition to basic research, she took out 4 patents for tinnitus and deafness treatments and promoted translational research.

Dr. Brij. M. Gandhi, M.Sc.(Biochemistry) and Ph.D.(Experimental Medicine, Norway) is presently CEO and founder of Neo BioMed Services (www.neobiomed.com), providing services and consultancy in health areas and regulatory issues related to biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, including stem cell and regenerative medicine. As Adviser to the Government of India, Dr. Gandhi was involved in management, promotion and policy issues in biotechnology related to international collaborations, medical biotechnology including stem cells and regenerative medicine, infrastructure development, animals and aquaculture biotechnology, biosafety and biosecurity. Prior to that he was Research Scientist at AIIMS, New Delhi working on immunology of parasitic, bacterial and viral infections including amoebic diseases; hepatitis; liver diseases; IVD; food and nutritional health issues.

Dr. Gandhi was trained at MIT, USA; LSHTM, London, NIH, USA, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen and University of Bergan, Norway. Dr. Gandhi continues to serve as Advisor / Director to a number of institutions/pharma and biopharma industries with an experience of about 50 years as research scientist, science manager, adviser/consultant and having over 155 publications

Dr. Choudhery earned a BS (Hons) degree in Zoology from the University of Punjab in 2007. He completed his Mphil and Doctorate in Molecular Biology (with specialization in regenerative medicine) from National Center of excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) in 2012. He completed a part of his research work in Professor David Harris’s Laboratory at College of Medicine, Department of Immunology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Dr. Choudhery was a Post-doctorate Fellow at the College of Medicine, Department of Immunology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. In December 2012 he joined the faculty at the King Edward Medical University as an Assistant Professor in the Advanced Center of Research in Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Choudhery’s research interests include stem cells and regenerative medicine, caloric restriction, tissue engineering, stem cell transplantation and gene therapy. He has published articles (papers and abstracts) in peer reviewed journals.

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory Department of Biomedical Sciences