MDPI would like to invite all recognized experts in the field of micromachines to attend the Micromachine Workshop | Current Trends of Inter-Disciplinary Technologies in Biomedical Applications. This series comprises some of the selected current trends of interdisciplinary technologies in biomedical and pre-clinical research. Presented by scientists and clinicians, we will showcase how diverse technology in nanoparticles, material science, biomedical implants, and photonics are presently being applied in preclinical and translational clinical research.

Workshop title: Current Trends of Inter-Disciplinary Technologies in Biomedical Applications
Date: 20/1/2022
Time: 4 p.m. (CST ASIA)
Register in advance for this webinar here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. The number of participants in the live session is limited, but the recording will be made available shortly afterwards. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Workshop Chairperson

Name: Dr. Daniel Teh Boon Loong
Affiliation: Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Biochemistry and Bia-Echo Asia Center for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (ACRLE), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Daniel Teh, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore and is affiliated with the Bia-Echo Asia Center for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (ACRLE). He is a 2020 Singapore’s National Medical Research Council Young Investigator Award recipient. The laboratory of Dr. Teh focuses on inter-disciplinary translational research of nanotechnology and material science in biomedical application. Dr. Teh was the first to discover the upconversion optical waveguide property in hydrogel, translating upconversion from a basic science concept to a medical-based implantable device. The technology is now being used as a wireless light delivery implantable device in photodynamic therapy to treat solid tumors in trials. He also devises nanoparticles for applications such as visualization probes in molecular and cellular processes in neurons. Most recently, he led his team to win the Best Teamwork Award in Singapore’s LeanLaunchpad Medtech Category 2020. He works closely with clinicians, biomedical engineers, and scientists.

Workshop Speakers

Name: Dr. Xinyi Su
Affiliation: Senior Principal Investigator, Divisional Director (IMCB, A*STAR), Asst. Professor, Research Director, Department of Ophthalmology (NUS) Consultant, Department of Ophthalmology (NUH) Clinician–Scientist, Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI)

Xinyi Su, MB BChir Ph.D., is an ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon at the National University Hospital of Singapore. She is the Divisional Director at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB, A*STAR) and Research Director of the Department of Ophthalmology (NUS). She runs a broad research program in retinal diseases as Senior Principal Investigator at the Translational Retinal Therapeutics Lab at IMCB and is a Clinician–Scientist at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI). Her research in retinal therapeutics has been published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Advanced Materials, and Nature Communications, among others. She received the Asia Pacific Vitreo-retinal Society LDP Gold Medal Award in 2021, the Eye and Vision Health Distinguished Award in 2021, and the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology SSO Young Ophthalmologist Award for two consecutive years, in 2019 and 2020. Dr. Su has a career total of >SGD 20 million in competitive research grants. She currently leads several translational research programs in developing biomaterials for retinal therapeutics and retinal stem cell regenerative therapy.

Name: Dr. Sanghoon Lee
Affiliation: DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)

Dr. Sanghoon Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Robotics Engineering, Daegu Geongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST). He received his B.S. degree from the Department of Electronic Material Engineering at Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea, in 2009 and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He was a research fellow at the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE) from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, he joined DGIST and is a director of the Neuro-Interfaced Robotics Lab. His research interests include neural interface-based neuroprosthetics and bioelectronic medicine, as well as neural devices and peripheral neuromodulation.

Name: Prof. Sze Y. Set
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan; Visiting Associate, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Engineering Department, Cambridge University, UK; Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK

Prof. Sze Y. Set received a B.Eng. (first-class honors) and a Ph.D. from the University of Southampton, UK. He was awarded the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1998. He joined a startup in Atlanta, Georgia, US, as a senior R&D engineer in 2000, and in 2005, he was appointed the CEO and CTO of a University of Tokyo startup to commercialize university technologies. In 2016, he was appointed as an associate professor at RCAST, the University of Tokyo.

Prof. Set’s research focuses on carbon nanotube photonics, ultrashort pulsed fiber lasers, ultrafast nonlinear optics, bio-photonics, optical communication, fiber optic sensing, and laser 3D imaging. He also teaches courses in university entrepreneurship. He was the first to demonstrate the use of a carbon-nanotube for laser mode-locking in 2003, and has contributed to 10 patents and over 200 academic publications in international journals and conferences. Prof. Set is a fellow of the OPTICA (Formerly OSA), the Deputy Committee Member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. Prof. Set was elected as a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University in October 2022. He is currently affiliated to the Cambridge Graphene Centre, a world-leading center of excellence for research in graphene and related materials technologies.

This Micromachines workshop will bring together a group of multi-disciplinary researchers from all over the world to present and exchange breakthrough ideas on biomedical applications. We are pleased to provide this excellent opportunity to all brilliant researchers.

To find out more about the speakers and the program, please visit https://sciforum.net/event/CTIDTBA. We hope you can join us for this event.

Shun Li
MDPI Conference Secretariat