Engineering Approaches for Cancer Research, Diagnosis and Therapy
Qatar University College of Engineering (QU-CENG) Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) organized online, the 6th QU-Engineering in Medicine Workshop with the theme of Engineering Approaches in Cancer Research, Diagnosis and Therapy on the 6th and 7th February 2022.
Attending the event were CENG Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Programs Prof Ahmed Masoud, the Medical Director of Hamad Hospital Dr. Yousuf Maslamani, Three keynote speakers: Prof Rashid Bashir, the Dean of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Prof Paul Weiss, the founding editor in chief of ACS Nano, and Prof Thomas Webster, the founding editor in chief of International Journal of Nanomedicine, as well as speakers and attendees from different countries. The main aim of the workshop was to bring together the clinicians, scientists, engineers and researchers to share the latest advances in engineering approaches to tackle cancer.
Dr Anwarul Hasan, Associate Professor at MIE-QU-CENG chaired the workshop. The Distinguished speakers of the two-day workshop included Dr Yu Shrike Zhang and Dr Su-Ryon Shin from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah from Arizona State University, Dr Nureddin Ashammakhi from University of California Los Angeles and Michigan State University, Dr Akhilesh Gaharwar from Texas A & M University, College Station, and a number of speakers from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and beyond.
In his comment, the chair of the MIE department Professor Dr. Elsadig Mahdi Ahmed Saad said "MIE is proud to have successfully organized this event which shows that QU researchers are producing high quality research in solving human health related issues through interdisciplinary research.”
Source: QATAR UNIVERSITY