Organizing Committee Member
Esmaiel Jabbari
Professor and Director of Biomaterials, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
University of South Carolina
USA
Biography
Esmaiel Jabbari is Tenured Full Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He directs the biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery laboratory which specialize on the design of 3D multi-cellular co-culture systems to study the effect of nanoscale spatiotemporal delivery of morphogens and physico-mechanical factors on the fate of stem cells. He has received numerous awards for his research program including the Berton Rahn Award in 2012 from the AO Foundation, the Stephen Milam Award in 2008 from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation, and elected for the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2013. He is the author of more than 250 books, book chapters, refereed journal articles and conference proceedings and he has mentored more than 130 scholars. He has served as the Academic Editor for PLOS ONE.
Research Area
Bioinspired materials, Skeletal tissue engineering, Multiâ€scale composite materials, Self-assembled nanogels for growth factor delivery, Drug targeting to cancer stem cells, Stem cell encapsulation and delivery, Three-dimensional tissue models