Lueder Kahrs, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Lueder Alexander Kahrs is tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga with cross-appointments to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Departments of Computer Science and Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Toronto. He founded the Medical Computer Vision and Robotics (MEDCVR) lab in 2020 and works towards robot autonomy in surgery. Lueder got his doctoral degree from the Department of Informatics at Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany in 2009 and his Diplom (comparable to combined M.Sc./B.Sc.) in Physics in 2002 from the University of Bremen, Germany. Since 2003, his research is focused on computer and robot assisted diagnosis and therapy. Before coming to Toronto, he was senior scientist in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hannover as well as the Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development (NIFE), both in Hannover, Germany. Before that, he was postdoctoral researcher in Düsseldorf, Germany and Nashville, TN, USA in university hospitals. Lueder authored and co-authored over 150 publications, including 45 journal papers, 3 book chapters, 4 books as author or editor and several patents.
Caitlin Maikawa, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Caitlin Maikawa is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in Bioengineering from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto. She was also selected as a 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow, which she held at Brigham and Women's Hospital under the supervision of Jeffrey Karp and Yuhan Lee. Her group develops dynamic polymer biomaterials to address challenges in drug delivery and biosensing.
Aereas Aung, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Aereas Aung has recently joined the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor.
After graduating with a degree in bioengineering from University of California, San Diego, Aung pursued his PhD, developing tools to study the progression of cancer in the human body. These findings have the potential to improve the screening of cancer drugs, leading to enhanced treatment options for patients.
Aung continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he focused on studying vaccines and how they affect the immune system. This work shed light on how the immune system responds to vaccines and can potentially lead to improved vaccine strategies against AIDS and other infectious diseases.
Since 2011, Aung had published 17 peer-reviewed research papers in notable journals such as Science, Advanced Functional Materials, and Cell Reports.
