Leadership team
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Erwin P. Gianchandani
The Executive Director of BMEplanet and Director for Innovation Networking in the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Virginia He has been responsible for guiding the development and launch of BMEplanet's collaboration suite. Erwin defended his dissertation in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia in December 2008. His research over the previous four years focused on developing computational systems biology-based tools for reconstructing and analyzing intracellular biochemical reaction networks in silico. Previously, he received a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 and B.S. in Computer Science in 2005, both from the University of Virginia. In his short career, Erwin has co-authored 12 peer-reviewed publications in leading technical journals in the field as well as one book chapter, attended seven international conferences to present his work, and been involved with two patent disclosures and multiple grant applications. Erwin has interests in science policy and was recently selected as a 2009-2010 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in Health IT at the National Science Foundation.
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Thomas C. Skalak
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Vice President for Research at the University of Virginia He serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board for BMEplanet and is also the PI of the NSF and Kauffman Foundation grants. Tom is a recognized expert in blood vessel remodeling and biomechanics. In a 23-year career, he has given more than 90 invited talks throughout the world to both industrial partners and academic groups, and delivered several short courses on blood rheology for R&D groups at corporate clients such as Abbott Laboratories. He has been a consultant to major device and pharmaceutical firms as well as several start-up ventures. Tom is the PI of a Wallace H. Coulter Foundation grant to enhance biomedical technology transfer at the University of Virginia; he recently organized the First Annual University of Virginia Venture Summit; and he has been keynote speaker or session moderator at multiple biomedical innovation meetings in the past four years, including the 2009 TransMed Meeting. He is currently President-elect of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and past-President of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). Tom received a B.S.E. in Bioengineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California-San Diego in 1984. |
