Dr. Wei-Shou Hu
Dr. Hu’s research area is in bioengineering, with emphasis on bioprocessing, stem cell technology and genomics. His research applies to engineering analysis to biochemical and cellular systems and integrates physiological insight into the quantitative modeling of biological systems. The systems employed include mammalian cells, stem cells, differentiated tissue cells and microorganisms. Current research efforts emphasize employing genomic and proteomic tools in those research projects and exploring system reduction and noble modeling approaches for quantitative description of cellular processes. Dr. Hu’s educational effort has resulted in a textbook Bioseparations.
Professionally Dr. Hu is active in the biochemical and biomedical engineering community. He initiated the Engineering Foundation conference on cell culture engineering two decades ago. It is one of the most successful conferences for the biochemical engineering profession and has had a great impact on the biotech industry. He also helped organize numerous national and international conferences. For his contribution to cell culture engineering he received the first Merck Award on cell culture engineering in 2002 and Lifetime Achievement award from the Society of In Vitro Biology. He was also recognized for his contribution in biochemical engineering by the Marvin Johnson Award from the Biochemical Technology Division of the American Chemical Society. In 2008 he was awarded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Division 15 Distinguished Service Award.