Amir Sanati Nezhad
University of Calgary, Canada
Biography
Amir Sanati-Nezhad received his MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Amir Kabir University of Technology, Iran and PhD degree from the Optical Bio-Microsystems Laboratory, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Canada. He did two years of postdoctoral research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the McGill University and Harvard– MIT Health Sciences and Technology for development of microdevices for single cell analysis and tissue engineering. His current research interests include BioMEMS, bioinspired microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, tissue engineering and single cell analysis. He is currently an assistant professor in the department of Mechanical and Manufacturing with a joint affiliation to Center for Bioengineering Research and Education and Biomedical Engineering program at University of Calgary. He has a research focus on development of organ on chip platform using integrated microfluidics and tissue engineering approaches for disease modeling and drug discovery.