Biography
Dr Ryan Moseley graduated from Swansea University with a BSc (Honours) Degree in Biochemistry. Later, he obtained his PhD from the School of Dentistry, University of Wales College of Medicine, examining the role of oxidative stress in periodontal disease. Dr Moseley continues his research at Cardiff University, where he is currently a Reader in Tissue Repair and Director of the CITER MSc Programme in Tissue Engineering. Dr. Moseley’s research focusses on the mechanisms underlying dermal and oral wound healing during health and disease; and the development of stem cell-, biomaterial- and pharmaceutical-based strategies to address impaired healing in these tissues.
Research Interest
Dermal, oral wound healing, stem cell-, biomaterial
Biography
After receiving his college education in Biology Major from Xinjiang University, People’s Republic of China, Dr. Li came to the US in 1985. He received MS degree in 1988 and PhD degree in 1991 from the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York City. Following a two-year post-doctoral/instructor fellowship with Dr. Joseph Schlessinger (Professor and Chairman, currently at Yale University Medical Center), he joined the faculty of the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1993 as an Assistant Professor. He was recruited to University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine in 1999 and rose to full professor in 2006. He is currently a Professor and Director of the GMCB Graduate Program at USC Keck School of Medicine. His research interest focuses wound healing and cancer cell invasion. His laboratory is the first to identify the important role for the SECRETED form of heat shock protein-90 (Hsp90) in skin wound healing. He is the principle author of more than 80 peer-reviews publications in first-rate biomedical journals.
Research Interest
wound healing and cancer cell invasion
Biography
Jöns Hilborn is since 2001 the head of the Polymer Chemistry program at the Department of Materials Chemistry, Uppsala University in Sweden. He has extensive management experience from life science industry and co-ordination of European projects. His research interests are in the design, synthesis and preparation of polymers and specifically materials for tissue scaffolds and as delivery vehicles. Current focus is on injectable in-vivo gel forming matrices that acts on endogenous cells to regenerate and the development of RNAi to allow translation to therapies. Chemistry, biology, engineering is combined with medicine to bring basic research findings from the lab bench to the clinic and commercial applications. He served as president of “Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society†(TERMIS), which he was a part of creating. He currently serves as ERC panel chair, board member of the UK medical research council in regenerative medicine, associate editor, international advisor and the editorial board for a number of journals. He received his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which was followed by seven years in industry before he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland for eight years. He is a frequently invited speaker at international events and has published 200 scientific papers (h=46), 26 patent applications and has started 7 companies.
Research Interest
Design, synthesis and preparation of polymers and specifically materials for tissue scaffolds and as delivery vehicles