BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT SOCIETY
McGill University
Opening Keynote Speaker:
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Prof Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University, Montreal. He is the Associate Director of the McGill International TB Centre.
Madhu Pai did his medical training and community medicine residency in Vellore, India. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at UC Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSF.
Madhu serves on the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB in the South-East Asia Region, and the WHO Advisory group on Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Laboratory. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND, Geneva. He serves as the Chair of the Public-Private Mix (PPM) Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. He serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases, PLoS Medicine, and BMJ Global Health, among others. He is Editor-In-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health.
Madhu’s research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India and South Africa. His research is supported by grant funding from the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has more than 350 publications. He is recipient of the Union Scientific Prize, Chanchlani Global Health Research Award, Haile T. Debas Prize, and David Johnston Faculty & Staff Award. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Rising Star Keynote Speaker:
Caroline Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at McGill University.
Her research program focusses on understanding the interaction between pathogens and biological fluids, and modeling the effect of such interactions on population level disease dynamics. She holds an MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and completed her postdoctoral training in mathematical disease modeling at Princeton University. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Caroline and her colleagues have developed models to explore the effect of various factors on the future burden and timing of Covid-19 infections. This work has been covered and presented in outlets including Quebec Science, La Presse, and Wired.
Closing Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Hakho Lee is an Associate Professor in Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. He currently leads in the Biomedical Engineering Program at the Center for Systems Biology and is a Hostetter MGH Research Scholar.
Dr. Lee’s expertise in nanomaterials, microfluidics, and electrical engineering has enabled him to develop novel diagnostic technologies. His portfolio includes many innovative platforms, such as a smartphone imager for cancer detection, a mini sensor for food allergies, a nanoplasmonic chip for exosomes analysis, and a membrane device for marijuana detection. Some of these platforms are now being translated for clinical use.
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