University of Missouri

Susie Dai

Susie Dai, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, earned her PhD in Chemistry with a Biomedical Engineering certificate from Duke University. She completed postdoctoral training at Scripps Research Institute (Florida campus) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She also serves as Associate Director and Co-PI of the NSF-funded CURB Engineering Research Center. Prior to joining Mizzou, Dai was a Professor at Texas A&M University and Director of the Synthetic and Systems Biology Innovation Hub. She has also held leadership roles at the State Hygienic Laboratory in Iowa and the Texas State Chemist’s Office.

Paul de Figueiredo

Paul de Figueiredo is a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine as well as in the Department of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Science in the College of Veterinary Medicine. He is also a principal investigator at the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center. Paul holds degrees from Rice University (BA, Mathematics and Political Science), Stanford (MA, Religious Studies), and Cornell (PhD, Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology), and completed postdoctoral training at MIT and the University of Washington. He has broad experience and training in molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology, and biochemistry, with…

Henry Wan

Henry Wan is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Missouri.

Dong Xu

Dong Xu is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the College of Engineering with appointments in Bond LSC and the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics. He obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and did two years of postdoctoral work at the US National Cancer Institute. He was a staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 2003. He then joined Mizzou where he served as department chair of Computer Science during 2007-2016 and director of Information Technology Program from 2017-2020. Over…