Education:

Honors and Awards:

Who's Who in the East; Who's Who in Technology Today; American Men and Women of Science; Who's Who in Science and Engineering; Who's Who in American Education; Sigma Xi Scientific Honorary; Stirling’s Who’s Who; Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare; New York Academy of Sciences, Marquis Who’s Who in America; Marquis Who's Who in the World;

One of "100 outstanding researchers" chosen nationwide by the National Academy of Sciences for a special Keck Futures Initiative Conference on "Signals, Decisions and Meaning in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering" Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the National Academies, Irvine, CA. November 14-16, 2003; One of 14 "outstanding researchers" from the United States invited by the South Korean government to a special International Conference "Millennial Frontiers in Biosciences" Invited key speaker for talk entitled "Nanomedicine for the 21st Century: Treating Injury and Disease One Cell At a Time" October 2-4, 2002;

Purdue SVM Named Professor of Nanomedicine, July 1, 2005- August 24, 2015 (currently Professor Emeritus)

2007 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (highest honorary in USA for Biomedical Engineers, one of the top 2 percent of biomedical engineers in the field)
2010 National Awardee of the $ 25,000 Chairmen's Distinguished Life Scientist Award by the Christopher Columbus Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; one national award per year
2011 International Journal Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award, one award per year nationally and internationally
2012 Elected Fellow of SPIE (Int. Society for Optical Engineering) one of approximately 1000 fellows elected world-wide since 1955
2012 Elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) for exceptional achievement in the field of biomedical engineering (currently about 210 BMES Fellows out of approximately 18,000 biomedical engineers in the USA)
2013 International Society for Advancement of Cytometry Distinguished Service Award for eminence as scientist and inventor in the field of cytometry, microfluidics, and nanomedicine; one of the highest awards of this scientific society
2013 Leon Wheeless Innovation in Cytometry Award

2015 (August 25) Professor Emeritus, Purdue University

Previous and Current Positions:

1974-1977 NIH Pre-doctoral Fellow (Virology/Cytometry), (Mentor: Paul W. Todd) Pennsylvania State University

1977-1978 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Immunology/Cytometry), (Mentors: Scott Cram and Noel Warner) Los Alamos National Laboratory

1978-1994 Assistant and Associate Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics, Univ. Rochester Medical School, NY

1989 Sabbatical (advanced FISH methods with Dr. Jan Bauman) TNO Radiobiology Institute, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

1990 (month of April) Visiting Scientist, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

1995-2005 Professor of Internal Medicine, Univ. Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (Tenured-Primary Appointment)

Director, Molecular Cytometry Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine

Professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics;

Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics; Senior Scientist: Biomedical Engineering Center; Sealy Center for

Molecular Sciences; Sealy Center Cancer Cell Biology (Secondary Appointments)

1996-2005 Professor of Biomedical Engineering (joint appointment UT-Austin)

1999-2001 Director, Institutional Research Development, Office of the VP for Research

2001-2003 Assistant Vice President for Advanced Technology, Office of the VP for Research

2002-2005 Senior Scientist, Sealy Center Vaccine Development; Member: Bioinformatics Program; Proteomics Program

2002-2005 Assistant Director, Biomedical Engineering Center

Move to Purdue University in June, 2005 – official start date July 1, 2005

7/2005- 2015 Professor of Basic Medical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

7/2005- 2015 Member, Bindley Biosciences Center, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Oncological Sciences Center; Purdue NCI Cancer Center - Purdue University

9/2005 – 2015 SVM Endowed Professor of Nanomedicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

1/2009 - 2015 Scientific Director, Purdue Cancer Center Flow Cytometry Facility
1/2009 - 2015 Bionano Core Director, CTSI (Clinical Translational Scientific Institute) Purdue-IU joint CTSI

2015 - present Professor Emeritus, Purdue University

2015 - present President and Founder, Aurora Life Technologies LLC, Santa Fe, NM

Last updated on January 5, 2022