Kent Gregory, M.D.
Medical Director
Postgraduate Education: University of Southern California, School of Medicine; University of Southern California, School of Engineering; Research Fellowship in Cardiology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center; Fellowship in Cardiology, Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital; University of California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital, Los Angeles, CA; University of California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
Research interests: Application of laser energy for the treatment of atherosclerotic vascular disease; Laser Thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction and stroke; Elastin biomaterials for tissue replacement and repair; Dye-targeted laser-tissue fusion; Hemorrhage control for battlefield trauma; Adult stem cell therapy for CHF, limb regeneration; Tropoelastin coverings for vascular stents.
Previous positions held: Academic Clinical Instructor in Medicine, University of California at Irvine Medical Center; Assistant Clinical Professor in Medicine, University of California at Irvine Medical School; Instructor in Medicine Harvard University School of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University; Professor, Biomedical Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Engineering; Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, OGI School of Science & Engineering, OHSU. Hospital Staff Cardiologist, University of California Irvine Medical Center; Clinical Assistant in Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Oregon Health & Science; Staff Cardiologist, Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. View CV
Robert Glanville
Senior Scientist
Postgraduate Education: University of Salford, Greater Manchester, England
Research interests: Macromolecular complexes in the extracellular matrix; recombinant human proteins to construct biomaterials for making vascular grafts.
Previous positions held: Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children (Senior Investigator and Director of Research Dept.); Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (Senior Scientist and Wellcome Travelling Research Fellow). View CV
Jian Guo, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Chitosan Group
Postgraduate Education: McGill University, Montreal, and Quebec, Canada
Research interests: Cellulosic polymers, blends and composites
Previous positions held: Ethicon Inc. (Principal Scientist); International Paper Company (Research Scientist); McGill University Pulp and Paper Research Center (Research Associate and Visiting Scientist); Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry (Polymer Chemist). View CV
Scott Prahl
Senior Scientist, Optics Group
Postgraduate Education: University of Texas; Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam; Harvard Medical School
Research interests: Applied physics, biomedical engineering, and biomedical optics
Previous positions held: Instructor, Harvard Medical School; Asst. Prof., Oregon Graduate Institute; Research Asst. Prof., Oregon Health & Science University; Editorial Board, Lasers in Medicine and Surgery; Physics Chairman, Oregon Academy of Science; Medical Imaging Technologies Study Sections, NIH SBIR/STTR. View CV
Rui-Qing Qian
Senior Scientist, Tropoelastin Group
Postgraduate Education: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research interests: Peptide and protein chemistry, protein biochemistry and natural product chemistry
Previous positions held: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P.R. China; Visiting scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Shriner’s Hospital, Portland, Oregon. View CV
Michael Rutten
Research Scientist, Cell Therapy Group
Postgraduate Education: University of California, Berkeley
Research interests: Cell biology, physiology, and cell signal transduction
Previous positions held: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA School of Medicine,
Research Associate, Dept. Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Research Physiologist, VA Medical Center, Research Assistant Professor of Physiology, Univ. Kansas, Research Physiologist, VA Medical Center, and Research Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, OHSU
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Jeff Teach
Senior Coordinator, Surgery Team
Education: Associates of Science, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon.
Research interests: Development of Hemostatic bandages
Previous positions held: Staff Nurse, Relief Charge Nurse (1986-1998, on-call 1998-present)
Cardiac Recovery Unit (Critical Care), St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, OR, Clinical Research Nurse/Research Coordinator, Oregon Medical Laser Center, Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, Senior Clinical Research Coordinator (2006-present)
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Hua Xie, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Postgraduate Education: Tongji Medical University
Research interests: Urology, medicine and surgery
Previous positions held: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Surgery, West China University of Medical Sciences; Urological Resident, Dept. of Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical University; Surgical Resident, Dept. of Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical University. View CV
Hooi-Sung (Brian) Kim, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Tropoelastin Group
Postgraduate Education: Pusan National University, Busan, Korea; Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Research interests: Polymer chemistry, material science, electrochemistry, and surface chemistry
Previous positions held: Visiting Scholar at Portland State University supported by KOSEF, Portland, OR; Adjunct Research Associate of Chemistry at Portland State University, OR. View CV
