Dear All,

HMS-CSSA CAREER PATH group invited two speakers, Drs. Weian Zhao and Wuwei(Wayne) Feng, who built the very successful career recently. They will share and discuss their experiences with you. Dr. Zhao will present "How to Look for a Faculty Position in U.S. as a Bioengineer" and Dr. Feng will present "Is Finding Faculty Position like Finding Nemo?". Please refer to the detail information below.



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Career Path group event

Time: 6 - 7 pm, Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Location: Room 1635, Dana Building, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115

Speakers: Dr. Weian Zhao and Dr. Wuwei (Wayne) Feng

Organizer: HMS-CSSA

Light refreshments will be provided.

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About speakers:

Dr. Weian Zhao completed his BSc and MSc degrees in Chemistry at Shandong University (China) where he studied polymer, surface and colloidal chemistry. Dr. Zhao then obtained his PhD in Chemistry at McMaster University (Canada) in 2008. During his PhD study with Dr. Yingfu Li and Dr. Michael A. Brook, Dr. Zhao focused on the use of functional nucleic acid (i.e. aptamers, DNA based enzymes) to structure gold nanoparticles to construct well-defined nanostructures and biosensors for point-of-care diagnosis. Since 2008, Dr. Zhao has been a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT working with Dr. Jeffrey Karp. His current research focuses on the development of novel molecular, nano- and micro-engineered tools for stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine, diagnosis and in vivo imaging, and elucidating stem cell and cancer biology. Dr. Zhao published more than 30 research articles including Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Materials, 5 invited book chapters, and has 2 patents. He won numerous prizes including "Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad" "Selected participant of the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany", " Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award" and "NSERC Innovation Challenge Award," Dr. Zhao is an invited guest editor for Journal Nanotechnology on a topic of Nanobiotechnology.

Dr. Wayne Feng is a graduate of Xiangya Medical school. He came to US after medical school, studied stroke rehabiliation with Dr. Edward Taub at University of Alabama at Birmingham, then had Master Degree in Biostatistics and worked for Eli Lilly & Company as a biostatistician in Neuroscience Division, then He matched Neurology Residency program at Medical University of South Carolina. Currently He is a clinical stroke fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, working with Dr. Louis Caplan(Godfather in stroke care) and Dr. Gottfried Schlaug( world expert in neuroimaging). Next month He will be a faculty member at stroke center at Medical University of South Carolina as well adjunct faculty member at Center of Neurorehabilitation. His research focuses on stroke epidemiology in middle age population and stroke recovery with non-invasive brain stimulation. He is board certified in American board of neurology and psychiatry, board eligible in vascular neurology. He is member of American stroke association, American statistics association, American academy of neurology. He is editorial board of Journal of Neurology and Neurophysilogy, also ad hoc reviewer for Journal of stroke, neurology, neuroepidemiology, etc.

For more information, please contact: cssa@hms-cssa.org.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Cheers

HMS-CSSA


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