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ANDREA ARMANI
Chairman of LAFORGE Optical; Executive Chairman of OptiSTENT; and Director of Q-Sensei and XTANT Medical. Education. B.S. in Life Sciences/Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh (1980); and Graduate Studies in Genetic Engineering, Biophysics, and Mathematical Sciences, UCLA (1983). Nonscientific Interests. Entrepreneurship/mentoring, technology development, travel, rugby, and writing. I’ve been considered an “old-school” med-tech start-up entrepreneur who recognizes and practices the lost arts of storytelling, optimal capital utilization, and management by objectives (“MBOs”). Surrounding myself with strong management teams and brilliant technology developers, I’ve been fortunate to be a part of several transformations in the medical device industry since the mid-1980s, and have authored over 70 patents in fields of medical and biotechnology. Having the privilege to get a sneak-preview to hundreds of new developments in various university laboratories all over the world, has provided material for a series of published medical thrillers known as the EQUITY Series; www.rudymazzocchi.com. (Read Mazzocchi’s sensor issues; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00553.)
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Current Position. Fluor Early Career Chair of Engineering and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Education. B.A. in Physics from the University of Chicago; M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics, with a minor in Biology, from the California Institute of Technology; Clare Boothe Luce Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Biology under Professor Scott Fraser. Nonscientific Interests. Running, collecting wine, and attending the symphony with my husband. The overarching mission of my research group is to develop novel nonlinear materials and integrated optical devices that can be used in portable disease diagnostics and environmental monitoring applications. My materials research efforts include designing and synthesizing optically responsive and nonlinear polymeric and silica materials. These new materials are being leveraged to invent integrated optical devices, such as advanced modulators and lasers as well as new strategies for biodetection. Lastly, I am exploring nonantibody based approaches for disease diagnostics. All work is complimented with computational modeling. (Read Armani’s article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00491.)
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PUHUP PUNEET
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Current Position. Just received my Ph.D., and now looking for a postdoctorate position. Education. Master of Technology in Chemical Synthesis and Process Technologies, University of Delhi (2013); and M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2016) in Materials Science with Prof. Noriyoshi Matsumi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Nonscientific Interests. I enjoy playing cricket and badminton. I also like to visit new places around the globe. I have explored various kinds of molecular designs of boron/ silicon bimetallic inorganic copolymers. As a researcher in polymer chemistry, I believe specific designs of inorganic polymers may solve some of the problems associated with purely organic polymers, and can be useful in a variety of applications. My research focus is also in the fundamental studies on conjugated materials. Recently, we manufactured the σ−p conjugated copolymer, for the first time, where the overlap of σ-electron
RUDY MAZZOCCHI
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Current Position. Chief Executive Officer of ELENZA, Inc.; Executive Chairman of Establishment Labs, SA; Executive © 2016 American Chemical Society
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cloud could be observed throughout the main chain of the polymer. In this work, we prepared highly alternating poly(borosiloxane) which was able to sense fluoride ions selectively in aqueous media up to the concentration of 10−10 M using potentiometric measurements. In the near future, my goal is to contribute in the field of materials designs to extract useful applications. (Read Puneet’s letter; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00346.)
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INTRODUCING OUR NEW ASSOCIATE EDITOR: MAARTEN MERKX
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Current Position. Professor of Protein Engineering, Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Education. M.S. in Chemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen; Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry, University of Amsterdam; and Human Frontiers Science Program postdoctoral fellow in Bioinorganic Chemistry with Professor Stephen J. Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nonscientific Interests. Raising two kids, and running. My group combines approaches from protein engineering, chemical biology, and synthetic biology to develop biomolecular sensors and actuators for applications in intracellular imaging, point-of-care diagnostics, optogenetics, and antibody-based therapies. Modular, rational design principles are applied to develop fluorescent and bioluminescent sensor proteins for metal ions, enzyme activity, nuclear receptor ligands, and antibodies. We are also interested in the integration of protein-based switches with DNA nanotechnology to construct hybrid biomolecular devices with autonomous signal processing properties. (Read Merkx’s letter published earlier this year; DOI: 10.1021/ acssensors.6b00078.)
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