Dr. Lola Eniola-Adefeso is the Dean of Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She received a doctoral degree (2004) in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a postdoctoral associate in Pediatrics/Leukocyte Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. Prior to joining UIC, she was the Vennema Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering and the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her pioneering research at the interface of cellular biomechanics, biomolecular surface, and immunology has contributed significantly to advancing immunoengineering and developing novel polymeric particle therapies for acute inflammatory diseases and has received several awards and honors for her groundbreaking work in the field, including the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Mid-Career Award for Scholarship and Practice of Biomedical Engineering and the CMBE Chris Jacob Excellence in Leadership Award. She is a Fellow of AAAS, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Heart Association (AHA), the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), the Controlled Release Society (CRS), BMES, and a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. She is the current president of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).