{"id":9035,"date":"2020-10-13T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:12:56","slug":"technology-science-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/10\/13\/technology-science-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Technology and Science in Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/466255183\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The College of Engineering is pleased to provide you with access to its webinar from Alumni Weekend featuring an expert panel of alumni and faculty.<br \/>\nThis webinar explores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How breakthroughs in biotechnology allow the rapid ability to find the origins of the coronavirus and the best targets for therapies and vaccines.<\/li>\n<li>How clinical care at the front lines has changed as new insights of the disease emerge to radically improve treatment success.<\/li>\n<li>How corporations have approached and will approach the challenge of large-scale, low-cost, development and manufacturing of critically needed testing methods now and for emerging methods.<\/li>\n<li>How a complex, large institution (i.e., Boston University) stood up and ran a massive testing system to allow a return to function for all its constituents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Moderator:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenneth R. Lutchen<\/strong>,<br \/>\nDean, College of Engineering<br \/>\nProfessor of Biomedical Engineering<br \/>\nBoston University<\/p>\n<p><em>Panelists: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine Klapperich<\/strong>, Ph.D.<br \/>\nVice Chair (BME)<br \/>\nProfessor (BME, MSE, ME)<br \/>\nDirector, Precision Diagnostics Center<br \/>\nBoston University<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Klapperich is a Professor Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Precision Diagnostics Center in the College of Engineering at Boston University. Dr. Klapperich oversaw Boston University\u2019s extraordinary COVID 19 testing systems, allowing the institution to test every student, faculty and staff as frequently as needed for surveillance to curtail the spread of the virus. Dr. Klapperich\u2019s research is focused on engineering medical devices for use in low resource settings and at the point of care. Dr. Klapperich earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley; her M.S. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manuel Mendez (ENG&#8217;91)<\/strong><br \/>\nSenior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer<br \/>\nQuest Diagnostics<\/p>\n<p>Manuel O. Mendez is the Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Quest Diagnostics. He is responsible for all commercial sales activities across the company. Prior to joining Quest in October 2019, Mr. Mendez was SVP, Global Commercial Operations at QIAGEN, a worldwide provider of molecular sample and assay technologies, where he helped accelerate growth and led a global commercial team. Mr. Mendez received an MBA from Northwestern University\u2019s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor\u2019s degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Ngo<\/strong>, Ph.D.<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, (BME)<br \/>\nBoston University<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ngo is the Reidy Family Career Development Professor at Boston University, which recognizes junior faculty who are emerging future leaders in their respective fields. Ngo\u2019s research applies principles of evolution, chemistry, and engineering to develop new tools for visualizing, measuring, and controlling biomolecules in living cells. Dr. Ngo believes the technologies he is pursuing will be powerful additions to the toolkit for engineering therapeutic cells. Dr. Ngo received his Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avrum Spira<\/strong>, M.D., M.Sc.<br \/>\nGlobal Head, Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson &amp; Johnson<br \/>\nAlexander Graham Bell Professor of Healthcare Entrepreneurs<br \/>\nBoston University<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Spira is the Global Head, Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson &amp; Johnson and is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine at BU Aram V. Chobanian &#038; Edward Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Spira was the Director of the Boston University \u2013 Boston Medical Center Lung Cancer Center. Dr. Spira\u2019s laboratory research interests focus on applying genomic and bioinformatics tools to the translational study of lung disease. His research program centers around the concept that inhaled toxins create a \u201cfield of injury\u201d in all exposed airway epithelial cells. . He has co-founded both a molecular diagnostics company and a pharmaceutical company in order to translate these tools from \u201cbench to bedside\u201d. Dr. Spira obtained his MD from McGill University in Montreal. During his fellowship, Dr. Spira obtained a master\u2019s degree in Bioinformatics from Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Engineering explores the response to COVID-19 with an expert panel of alumni and faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16959,"featured_media":7662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,390],"tags":[102,106,93,677,506],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/06\/webinar-coronavirus-pandemic-800x600.jpg","agg_excerpt":"The College of Engineering explores the response to COVID-19 with an expert panel of alumni and faculty.","agg_title":"The Role of Technology and Science in Managing the...","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16087,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions\/16087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}