Guest Speaker: Kambez H. Benam, DPhil
Associate Professor of Medicine, and Bioengineering, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, UPMC

Presentation Title: Respiratory disease and host-environment interaction.

Research Highlight: Dr. Benam is the founder of Translational and Multidisciplinary Lung Microengineering Lab, which brings together researchers from the engineering, biology, bio-pharmaceutical industry, clinical and business communities with the aim of developing new technologies that recreate complex human organ pathophysiology in vitro, and applying them to discover novel therapeutics and personalized biomarkers.