Dr. Thomas J. Webster is the current Art Zafirpoulo Endowed Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. He has been a professor at Purdue and Brown University studying and commercializing nanomedicine. He has spun out 11 companies which have 4 FDA nanomedicine products. He has over 18 years of experience in the design, evaluation, and commercialization of nanomedicine products across a wide range of health including cancer, infection, orthopedics, vascular, cardiovascular, skin, and bladder applications. Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 82, Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995) and in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S., 1997; Ph.D., 2000). In his 18 years in academics, Prof. Webster has graduated/supervised over 139 visiting faculties, clinical fellows, post-doctoral students, and thesis completing B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. students. To date, his lab group has generated over 12 textbooks, 68 book chapters, 356 invited presentations, at least 503 peer-reviewed literature articles (322) and/or conference proceedings (181), at least 667 conference presentations, and 32 provisional or full patents. Some of these patents led to the formation of 11 companies with 4 FDA approved products. His research on nanomedicine has received attention in recent media publications including MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, PBS DragonFly TV, ABC Nightly News via the Ivanhoe Medical Breakthrough Segment, Fox News, the Weather Channel, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and many more. His work has been on display at the London and Boston Science Museums. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Nanomedicine (impact factor of 5.03), has helped to organize 32 conferences emphasizing nanotechnology in medicine, and has organized over 73 symposia at numerous conferences emphasizing biological interactions with nanomaterials. Prof. Webster has received numerous honors including, but not limited to: 2002, Biomedical Engineering Society Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award; 2003, Outstanding Young Investigator Award Purdue University College of Engineering; 2005, American Association of Nanomedicine Young Investigator Award; 2005, Coulter Foundation Young Investigator Award; 2006, Fellow, American Association of Nanomedicine; 2010, Distinguished Lecturer in Nanomedicine, University of South Florida; 2011, Outstanding Leadership Award for the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES); 2012, Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE, representing the top 2% of all medical and biological engineers); 2013, Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society; 2014, Fellow, Ernst Strugmann; 2015, Wenzhou 580 Talent Award; 2015, Zheijiang 1000 Talent Award; 2016, Fellow, FBSE; 2016 Lee Hsun IMRC Chinese Academy of Sciences; and 2017, Fellow, National Academy of Inventors. He currently serves as the director of the Indo-U.S. Center for Biomaterials for Healthcare which serves to catalyze research between the U.S. and India in the area of biomaterial science with over 20 participating universities and industries. He is also currently serving as co-director of the Center for Tropical Natural Materials (Colombia) and is a Past President of the U.S. Society For Biomaterials.