CEN Lecture Series | Separation of Bacteria from Blood for Rapid Diagnosis of Blood Sepsis (May 2023)
Guest Speaker Dr. William G. Pitt from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA will be presenting the lecture "Separation of Bacteria from Blood for Rapid Diagnosis of Blood Sepsis."
About the speaker
Professor William G. Pitt joined the Chemical Engineering faculty at Brigham Young University in 1987 after receiving a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since then he has supervised more than $5 million in research funds, serving as principal research advisor to 45 graduate students. Dr. Pitt is noted for research in the areas of polymeric biomedical materials and drug delivery, ultrasonically triggered drug delivery, which may permit delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs to the sites of cancerous tumor without affecting the rest of the body. His recent activity is in rapid antibiotic susceptibility diagnostics in microfluidic devices. His creativity is evidenced by his h-index of 63, his 9 patents and 175 peer-reviewed journal articles, which have been cited over 11,200 times. Dr. Pitt teaches classes in biomedical engineering, polymer science, materials science, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer and creative problem solving. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is a member of that Institute, and also of the Society for Biological Engineering, Society for Biomaterials, Controlled Release Society, and the American Society for Microbiology. He is visiting and doing research in the lab of Dr. Ghaleb Husseini at AUS during May and June of 2023.
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