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Contributors
Rafael V. Davalos.is.an.associate.professor.at.the.joint.
School.of.Biomedical.Engineering.and.Sciences.at.Virginia.Tech.and.Wake.Forest.University.and.a.College.
of. Engineering. faculty. fellow.. He. also. holds. adjunct.
appointments.in.the.Departments.of.Engineering.Science.and.Mechanics,.the.Wake.Forest.Comprehensive.
Cancer.Center,.and.the.Wake.Forest.Institute.of.Regenerative. Medicine.. He. received. his. BS. from. Cornell.
University.and.PhD.from.the.University.of.California,.
Berkeley.. Prior. to. his. career. as. a. faculty. member,. he.
was.a.principal.member.of.the.technical.staff.at.. Sandia.
National.Laboratories..He.is.the.recipient.of.the.2006.
HENAAC.award.for.the.nation’s.most.promising engineer,.the.NSF.CAREER,.and.the.Coulter.Foundation’s.Early.Career.Award..
He has.authored.or.coauthored.more.than.forty-five.peer-reviewed.papers,.
twelve.pending.or.issued.patents,.and.five.book.chapters..His.research.interests.are.in.the.effects.of.electric.fields.on.biological.systems,.specifically.with.
regard.to.dielectrophoresis,.electroporation,.and.biotransport.
João Pedro Martins Soares de Castro e Silva.has.a.
degree. in. applied. biology. from. the. University. of.
Minho..He.received.a.master’s.in.molecular.genetics.
from.the.University.of.Minho.in.2004.and.a.PhD.in.
biology. from. the. University. of. Minho. in. 2009..
ical.and.biotechnological.engineering.in.the.Department  of. Biological. Engineering. at. the. University. of.
Minho,.working.on.the.production.and.modification.
of. bacterial. cellulose. tubes. to. be. used. as. artificial.
. vascular.prosthesis.
Manu de Groeve. has. a. degree. in. bioengineering.
(2005,. cell. and. gene. biotechnology). and. a. PhD. in.
applied. biological. sciences. (2009),. both. obtained. at.
Ghent. University.. At. present. he. is. an. assistant.
professor. . at. the. Technical. University. of. Lodz.. His.
research. interests. include. industrial. biotechnology,.
neering.and.the.biotechnological.production.of.biomaterials..His  research.results.have.been.presented.at.
national. and. international. conferences. and. he. is.
author.or.coauthor.of.several.scientific.publications.in.
tional.. journals..He.also.holds.an.international.patent.
peer-reviewed.interna