April Faculty Features

Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Sc.D., Chemical Engineering and Emergency Medicine and Director of the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips
Guiseppi-Elie was the keynote speaker at the annual Virginia Space Grant Consortium luncheon. He spoke on “Bionanotechnology: What’s All the Fuss About the Small Stuff?” This year’s program was sponsored by Virginia Tech and honors VSGC scholars and fellows. Guiseppi-Elie’s research focuses on engineered biosystems that advance health and medicine. He also is president and scientific director of Abtech Scientific, Inc., a biomedical diagnostic company based in the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park.

Christopher L. Kepley, Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine- Rheumatology
Kepley was awarded a research grant from the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network to develop a novel system to test different compounds that will recognize peanut-specific allergens and "turn-off" the cells that play a major role in an allergic reaction. The results may lead to new pharmaceutical treatments for peanut allergy. FAAN Research Grants Program awarded the grants for five scientific research studies based on scientific excellence and on the scientists’ qualifications and research experience. More than $700,000 was awarded for the inaugural round of research grants. In 2001, Kepley was named the first recipient of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology's Award for Outstanding Research Published by a Developing Researcher in the academy's publication, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Kepley, who earned his Ph.D. from VCU's School of Medicine in 1995, was named to a faculty position in the medical school after completing post-doctoral work at the University of New Mexico.