Prof. Hanjoong Jo

Emory University and Georgia Tech

Prof. Jo is Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair Professor and Associate Chair in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, USA where he directs the Cardiovascular Mechanobiology, Therapeutics, and Nanomedicine Lab. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Emory and the Director of the Cardiovascular Biomechanics T32 Graduate Training Program at Emory and Georgia Tech. His lab studies how blood flow regulates vascular endothelial function, leading to atherosclerosis and aortic valve disease. His lab develops novel therapeutics by targeting flow-sensitive genes/proteins and nanotechnology for targeted therapeutics delivery to treat cardiovascular disease safely and effectively.

Prof. Blanca Rodriquez

University of Oxford

Prof. Rodriguez is Professor of Computational Medicine, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Computational Biology and Health Informatics Theme at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK.

Her scientific interest is in innovating in medical therapy development through a focus on human pathophysiology with modelling and simulation augmented by big data, machine learning and non-animal experimental methods. Our work has been featured as pioneering case studies for the ‘Digital Twin’ vision in cardiology, as well as In Silico Trials in drug development.