Alan Nelson, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Biodesign Institute. Dr. Nelson is the developer of a number of medical innovations, including a landmark technology that dramatically improved detection of cervical cancer. In addition to leading the Biodesign Institute, he is a professor of bioengineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
Dr. Nelson’s career includes both academic and entrepreneurial successes. His company VisionGate has developed proprietary technology providing detailed 3-D images of cell structures, enabling lung cancer to be detected much earlier than current technology. He also founded NeoPath, Inc. (NPTH), which automated cervical cancer screening. He has produced 63 patents for new biomedical innovations and has published more than 100 scientific papers on topics ranging from geophysics to retinal injury and recovery.
Dr. Nelson's past academic roles include professorships at the University of Washington, Harvard and MIT. He serves on advisory panels for the National Cancer Institute, is science advisor to the Swedish Embassy’s Office of Science and Technology, and is editor of the Scanning Electron Microscopy Journal. While serving as an elected Board member of the Technology Alliance of Washington, he headed the state ethics law review and subsequent enactment of a new state ethics law. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Neal Woodbury, PhD, is Deputy Director. He also directs the Institute's Center for BioOptical Nanotechnology and is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Woodbury is an advocate of interdisciplinary science as a means of providing researchers greater vision in addressing real-world problems. Dr. Woodbury's body of published work includes more than 75 published articles and studies. He had been a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biophysics Panel for the past year; a current member of the NSF IGERT Panel; and an associate editor of Photochemistry and Photobiology. He has served as the Director of the Photosynthesis Center at ASU and is an active member of the American Chemical Society,
Recently, at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described in this week’s online edition of Nature Chemistry.
“The Proof of Concept for a Novel Approach to DNA Sequencing”
“Pneumococcal and Enteric Fever Protein Capsular Matrix Vaccines (PCMV)”
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