Prof. Dr. James Curtin has been the Head of the School of Food Science & Environmental Health at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, since 2011. He has extensive academic research and management experience. The focus of his Lab is to develop programmable platforms for the treatment of brain and other cancers. The lab develops advanced technologies such as plasma and ultrasound to augment or activate anti-cancer properties of nanomaterials, prodrugs, bioactive agents, gene- and immune-based therapies. His specialties are Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Gene Therapy, Immunology and Cell Biology Plasma Medicine, and Nanomedicine. He has 92 papers publications with 5067 citations and an h-index of 35 (Scopus, 9 November 2023) in these areas.
Furong Tian received a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine, a master’s in Biochemistry, and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Stuttgart University and Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in 2006. She was a visiting Research Scientist in the Radiation department, at Kyoto University and National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. She was a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Inhalation Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, supported by a Helmholtz-DAAD scholarship and ANTICARBON Seventh Framework Programme. In 2009, she received 3 years of funding within the European network programme ERANET Nanoscience with an amount of over €250K through the ERA-NET Plus scheme of the Seventh Framework Programme. In 2013–2015, she worked at Nano lab in FOCAS with a Marie Curie Fellowship. She is a lecturer at the School of Food Science and Environmental Health, Technological University Dublin, Grangegorman Lower, Dublin 7, Ireland. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in major international journals with over 6000 citations (in web science excluding self-citation) yielding an h index of 31 (also excluding self-citation). Her publication profile mirrors this development of research education. The publications include Nanotoday, ACS Nano, Advanced Function Materials, Journal of Controlled Release, Small, and Biomaterials.
