Engineering of PZ Materials & Devices & Photo-luminescent Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
4:00 PM-5:30 PM
BIOMED Seminar
Title:
Engineering of Piezoelectric Materials and Devices and Photo-luminescent Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
Speaker:
Wan Shih, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Abstract:
Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary “gray” area at the junction of engineering and medicine that offers unprecedented opportunities to combine innovative engineering research in medical applications that were not previously possible.
In this presentation, Dr. Wan Shih will use her own research to illustrate how out-of-box medical devices with capabilities that did not exist before were achieved through innovative research on piezoelectric (PZ) materials and devices and photo-luminescent nanoparticles. Examples include: (1) detecting breast cancer in young women and women with dense breasts; (2) rapid multiplex genetic detection for both DNA and RNA, directly from patient samples and without the need of DNA and RNA isolation or amplification; (3) instant growth-free bacterial antimicrobial susceptibility test; (4) cancer-specific surgical margin imaging; and (5) high-efficiency (75%) non-viral-vector gene delivery.
Biosketch:
Wan Y. Shih, PhD, received a BS in Physics in 1976 from Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan and a PhD in Physics in 1984 from Ohio State University. She joined the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University as an Associate Professor in 2006. Before that, she was a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University from 1993 to 2006, and a Research Scientist in the Princeton Materials Institute at Princeton University from 1993 to 1999.
Dr. Shih's research has covered a wide range of areas of materials and biomedical engineering. Her current research interest is to apply her expertise in piezoelectric materials and photo-luminescent semiconducting nanoparticles in biomedical applications. Dr. Shih has published 109 peer-reviewed papers. For her work on piezoelectric bimorphs, she received in 1999 the Edward C. Henry Electronics Division Best Paper Award, which is the highest honor in the area of electronic ceramics. For her prolific biomedical innovations, Dr. Shih was granted 35 patents, with 24 more patents pending, and was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2014. Four of her technologies have been optioned/licensed and one (iBE™) has been FDA-approved and is in the process of being tested on 2 million women.
Contact Information
Ken Barbee
215-895-1335
barbee@drexel.edu
Location
Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB), Room 120, located on the northeast corner of 33rd and Chestnut Streets.
Audience
- Undergraduate Students
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff