Amy Shen is the Provost and a Professor at OIST in Japan, where she has led the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit since 2014. Before joining OIST, she was a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington, USA. Her research focuses on microfluidics, rheology, and lab-on-a-chip technologies at the bio/nano interface, with broad applications in biotechnology. Amy is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Society of Rheology. She has received numerous accolades, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2013. She serves as an Associate Editor for Soft Matter and is on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Sensors, Journal of Rheology, and Physics of Fluids. Notably, she delivered the 2019 Bergveld Lecture at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the 2025 FlOW lecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Professor Chwee Teck LIM is the NUSS Chair Professor and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore. He has coauthored over 500 journal publications and cofounded six startups with one public listed in 2018. Prof Lim is an elected Fellow of nine academies and organizations including the Royal Society UK, US National Academy of Inventors, IUPESM, AIMBE, IAMBE, Singapore National Academy of Science and Academy of Engineering Singapore. He has garnered numerous research awards including Nature Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Science, Highly Cited Researcher, Asia’s Most Influential Scientist Award, Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award (Gold) and the President's Technology Award.

Daniel Citterio received his Doctoral degree in Natural Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1998. From 1998-2002, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Keio University with Prof. Koji Suzuki. Upon return to Switzerland, he worked as a researcher at ETH, before joining Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc.. In 2006, he moved back to Keio University, where he became a tenured Associate Professor in 2009 and Professor in 2014. In 2016, he has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He serves as a co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, as well as on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Sensors. In 2022, he has been awarded the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work. His research is focusing on the development of chemical sensors and biosensors. More recently, his research team is strongly engaged in the development of microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (µPADs) for low-cost point-of-need applications.

Dan Tagle is Director of the Office of Special Initiatives at NCATS where he many coordinates efforts towards development of disruptive technologies in translational research. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Wayne State University School of Medicine. He was an NIH National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow in Human Genetics at the University of Michigan. He has served on numerous committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards. He has authored many scientific publications and has garnered numerous awards, including more recently the Roscoe O. Brady Award for Innovation and Accomplishment, and the Henry J. Heimlich Award for Innovative Medicine.

Dino Di Carlo received his B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and received a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco in 2006. From 2006-2008 he conducted postdoctoral studies in the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has been on the faculty in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA since 2008 and now as Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering serves as the Chair of the Department and as the director of the Cancer Nanotechnology Program in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research pioneered the use of inertial fluid dynamic effects for the control, separation, and analysis of cells in microfluidic devices. His recent work extends into numerous other fields of biomedicine and biotechnology including directed evolution, cell analysis for rapid diagnostics, new amplified molecular assays, next generation biomaterials, and phenotypic drug screening. He has also been a leader in technology entrepreneurship: He co-founded and currently serves on the board of directors of five companies that are commercializing UCLA intellectual property developed in his lab (CytoVale, Vortex Biosciences, Tempo Therapeutics, Forcyte Biotechnologies and Ferrologix). Among other honors he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2016, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2014, was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award and the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, the Packard Fellowship and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, and received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award and Coulter Translational Research Award.

Dr. Han Wei Hou is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU). He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), and currently serves as the Assistant Chair (Students) at MAE. Dr. Hou received his BEng (First Class Hons) and PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Upon graduation, he did his postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and subsequently joined LKCMedicine as the inaugural LKCMedicine Postdoctoral Fellow in 2014. He started his research group at NTU (BioMicroSystems Laboratory, www.hwhoulab.com) in 2018 and his research interests include microfluidics blood diagnostics, organ-on-chips, and cell-based biomanufacturing. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed journal publications and filed 15 patents/patent applications. His recent research awards and accolades include World's Top 2% Scientists (By Stanford University) (2023, 2024), International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) Early Career Award (2022), NTU College of Engineering Research – Young Faculty Special Mention (2022), and International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) Innovators (2021).

Hirofumi Shintaku is Professor at the Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, and RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader. He has received numerous awards, including the Young Engineers Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the highest honor for young mechanical engineers. His current research focuses on technology development for single-cell biology leveraging electrokinetics in micro and nanoscale and integrating phenotyping and single-cell omics.

Dr. Ivan Rusyn is a University Professor in the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology at Texas A&M University. He directs the Texas A&M Superfund Research Center. With over 350 peer-reviewed publications cited more than 38,000 times (h-index=89), his research focuses on the health effects of chemical agents. Dr. Rusyn has chaired and served on committees for the US National Academies and WHO/IARC working groups and advises the Texas Department of Public Health. He holds a medical degree from Ukrainian State Medical University (1994) and a Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of North Carolina (2000), with postdoctoral work at MIT and Heinrich-Heine University (Dusseldorf, Germany).

Dr. Jin-Ming Lin is a professor at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University. From 1992 to 2002, he studied and worked at Showa University and Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He received his Ph.D from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1997. In 2001, he was selected into the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and received funding from the National Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars, and in the same year, he was appointed as the professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2004, he moved to Tsinghua University as a full professor at the department of chemistry. In 2008, he was selected as CheungKung Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, China. He is a fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His main research interesting: 1) Microfluidic chip combined with mass spectrometry for cell analysis; 2) Research on rapid detection methods of foodborne pathogenic bacteria; 3) Research on the preparation method of air negative ions and its mechanism on promoting health. He has published more than 500 research papers, applied for and authorized more than 50 invention patents, and won more than 30 academic awards. He is currently the president of the Microfluidic System Branch of the Chinese Biophysical Society, the deputy director of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of the Chinese Chemical Society, the vice chairman of the Micro-nano Fluidics Technology Branch in Chinese Micro and Nanotechnology Society, the executive director of the Chinese Association of Analysis and Testing, the Chief in Editor of Chemosensors, contributing editor of Trends in Analytical Chemistry, and Associate Editors of J. Pharm. Anal., Chinese Chemical Letters.

Dr. Jing Chen has amassed 28 years of expertise in Microfluidics, MEMS, and Manufacturing Engineering. He earned his PhD from Tsinghua University, furthered his research at the University of Michigan, and served as a tenured professor at Peking University for 16 years. In 2014, Dr. Chen founded HiComp, which specializes in microfluidic and lab-on-chip products for various industries. He has authored over 180 papers, 70 patents, and 6 books, making significant contributions to the field.

Dr Levent Yobas received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from Hacettepe University, Turkey, MSc and PhD degrees both in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, USA. From 2002-2010, he was with the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) under the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) of Singapore. He held adjunct faculty positions with Bioengineering Division at National University of Singapore (NUS) and the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He joined the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Assistant Professor in 2010 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015 and Professor in 2022. His research is mainly focused on silicon-based micro/nanofabrication technologies for life sciences, particularly lab-on-a-chip microfluidics for drug discovery and point-of-care diagnostic applications.

Dr. Zhao currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Beijing University of Technology. Prior to this position, he was worked for the University of Science and Technology Beijing. He earned his PhD from Nanjing University and completed his postdoctoral research at Peking University before serving as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2014-2015). Dr. Zhao's research focuses primarily on developing advanced microfluidic devices that replicate physiological microenvironments. These innovative platforms enable precise spatial and temporal control of cells, spheroids, and organoids for enhanced in vitro studies. Additionally, his work includes the development and integration of novel 3D-printed microfluidic tools for biomedical applications.

Martyn Boutelle is Professor of Biomedical Sensors Engineering in the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, and Associate Provost for Estates Planning for Imperial College. His research group is multidisciplinary comprising bioengineers, scientists, and clinicians. He develops novel analytical science methods using microfluidics, electrochemical sensors / biosensors, and wireless electronics to make portable (sometimes wearable) monitoring devices for use as point of care devices – typically giving continuous real -time displays. He then uses these in a program of clinical science research focusing on the neonatal monitoring, acute traumatic brain injury, pesticide exposure monitoring. Martyn is past president of the International Society for Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience, and a founder of the COSBID organization for studying acute human brain injury. He published > 200 papers, chapters and patents. He obtained a BSc and PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College and worked as an EP Abraham Research Fellow in the University of Oxford.

Masatoshi Maeki is an Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Chemistry at the Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2014 from Kyushu University. After graduation, he worked as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at Hokkaido University. He joined the Faculty of Engineering at Hokkaido University as an Assistant Professor in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. His research focuses on the development of microfluidic devices for applications in drug delivery systems and biomolecular analysis. He has received several awards, including the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Prize for Young Scientists in the field of science and technology in 2024. He also received the Hokkaido Science and Technology Encouragement Award in 2023, the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award for Young Researcher’s in 2016, and the Young Innovator Award on Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems (CHEMINAS Young Innovator Award) in 2015.

Noah Malmstadt is Professor at the University of Southern California. He received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Caltech and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Washington. Following postdoctoral work at UCLA, he joined the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at USC in 2007. Malmstadt is the recipient of a 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award. His research focuses on microfluidic strategies to facilitate material fabrication and biophysical analysis. He has pioneered the integration of ionic liquids as solvents in droplet microreactors and the application of microfluidic systems to synthesizing biomimetic cell membranes. Microfluidic analytical techniques he has developed include methods for measuring the permeability of cell membranes to druglike molecules and techniques for measuring ionic currents through membrane proteins.

Ryuji Yokokawa is currently a Professor at Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, and a Visiting Researcher at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Japan. Before the current position, he was an Associate Professor Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University (2011–2019), an Assistant Professor at Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University (2009–2011), and a Lecturer at Department of Micro System Technology, Ritsumeikan University (2005–2009). He was a project researcher of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (PRESTO, JST) (2008–2014), and an adjacent faculty of World Premier International Research Center (WPI) Initiative, Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University (2010–2012).

He has authored or co-authored 82 peer-reviewed journal and 158 conference papers, 1 book chapter, and has 7 patents issued or pending. He has served as a technical or organizing committee member in many international conferences including IEEE NEMS, MEMS, Sensors and NANOMED. He has received 21 academic awards such as The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2016.

Seiichi Ishida has been Professor of Division of Applied Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Sojo University, and Guest Researcher of Biological Safety Research Centre at National Institute of Health Sciences since 2020. He received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Science from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1993, and conducted postdoctoral studies at The Cancer Institute (Tokyo) and at Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Duke University Medical Centre. He used to be Senior Researcher (2000-2007) and Section Chief (2007-2020) of Division of Pharmacology at National Institute of Health Sciences. His research focuses primarily on the development of in vitro cell assay platform for the evaluation of drug metabolism and drug induced liver injury and their application to the regulatory science field.

Professor Pan Tingrui is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He is currently a Yangtze River Chair Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China and directs the Institute for Innovative Medical Devices (iMED). Before joining USTC, Professor Pan was a tenured Full Professor at UC Davis, where he initiated Global Research Experience in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) Program and directed Center for Nano and Micro-Manufacturing (CNM²). He is currently an Associate Editor of Annals of Biomedical Engineering (TBME) and Journal of Medical Devices (JMD) and serves on the editorial board of Bioengineering and Journal of Chinese Medicine. His research interests span a wide range of bioengineering frontiers, including iontronic sensing, tactile intelligence, medical wearables, microfluidic interfaces and laboratory intelligence. His group has authored over 100 referenced publications on high impact journals and has been granted more than 20 international patents. Notably, Professor Pan is well known for his invention of the world-first flexible iontronic sensor (FITS), as the latest generation of tactile sensing technology, which has been successfully translated from a laboratory prototype to a series of enabling industrial and medical products. For his contribution to both academic innovation and technology translation, Professor Pan has received numerous international awards and domestic recognitions, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Award, Xerox Award, CES Innovation Award, UC Davis Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award, and the First Prize of China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

Dr. Yoshinobu Baba is Professor of Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He is also a Director of FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University and a Director of Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Nagoya University. He is an Associate Editor of Anal. Chem. of American Chemical Society and serving to over 20 scientific journals, including Nanoscale of Royal Society of Chemistry and Biomicrofluidics of American Institute of Physics, as an editorial/advisory board member. He is a co-initiator for the world largest Nanotech/Nanobio International Meeting and Exhibition in Japan and International Academy of Nanomedicine. He is a general chair of numerous international meetings (microTAS, MSB, NanoBioEXPO, ISMM). He has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received over 113 awards for his contributions in nanobiotechnology: MERCK Award in 2004, award from the Applied Physics Society of Japan in 2006, and The CSJ (Chemical Society of Japan) award for creative work in 2008. His major area of interest is nanobiosicence and nanobiotechnology for omics, systems biology, medical diagnosis, tissue engineering, and molecular imaging. He is the author or co-author of 767 publications, including research papers, proceedings, reviews, and books and is also an inventor of over 70 patents. He has delivered more than 726 plenary and invited lectures at conferences. His work has been cited on 299 occasions by newspapers and television.