Abstract:
While nanomedicine has been around for several decades, new technological advances are pushing its boundaries. For example, this presentation will present an over 30 year journey of commercializing nanomaterials as implants now in over 45,000 patients to date showing no signs of failure. Current implants face a failure rate of 5 – 10% and sometimes as high as 60% for bone cancer patients. This talk will cover how nanoparticles are being used to diagnose heart problems and develop cardiovascular solutions, including but not limited to stents and cardiac patches. Lastly, this talk will cover how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be combined into today’s implants to predict implant success or failure in the years that follow.
Biography:
Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 132; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 30,000 patients. His technology is also being used in commercial products to improve sustainability and renewable energy. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.
