VCU School of Engineering Professor to be a member of a National Institutes of Health Study Section

By Makeda Saggau-Sackey
University News Services

A Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering professor has been invited to serve on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section, Center for Scientific Review.

Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Sc.D., a professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips within the VCU School of Engineering, will review grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health, make recommendations on the applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council and survey the status of research in his field of engineering.

Guiseppi-Elie will serve on the Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI) Study Section of the recently formed National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), one of the newest institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and one that focuses on engineering in human health. Membership on NIH Study Sections is granted to individuals for their competence and achievement in their scientific discipline, as well as the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals and other scientific activities, achievements and honors.

"Service on a study section also requires mature judgment and objectivity as well as the ability to work effectively in a group, qualities that we believe Guiseppi-Elie will bring to this important task," says Brent Stanfield Ph.D., acting director of the NIH’s Center for Scientific Review.

Guiseppi-Elie's research focuses on engineered biosystems that advance health and medicine. Among his interests are implantable biochips for physicologic status monitoring, the development of electronic NOSES for expired breath monitoring following trauma, and the development of biochip platforms for cancer diagnostics and prognostics.