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Elham Sagharchi is a Los Angeles based artist. Her work is intimate and at the same time explores greater feminine issues. She examines the interactions and con...flicts between a woman and her surroundings. Her mixed media pieces make use of material from the domestic sphere such as cloth. She often juxtaposes these elements with material from work and industry such as rebar. These elements are then woven together through the traditional medium of oil on canvas. She makes great use of texture and surface. Elham has been painting for more than 25 years. She studied painting at Tehran Azad university. Her work has been shown in several shows in Los Angeles and Tehran, including The Arena 1 Gallery, BG Gallery, Tag Gallery, Golestan Gallery, the British Embassy, Azad Gallery, etc. She worked as a graphic artist in various magazines and newspapers. Bio from elhamsagharchi dot com

Iranian born Dr. Ehsan Kamrani is an experienced biomedical engineer with more than 20 years of experience in both academia and industry. He is currently an Ass...istant and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University, and CTO/CEO/Co-Founder of Pharmasees and of Stealth Startup. He was also CEO and Co-Founder of Talymus Inc. from Oct. 2018 to Nov. 2019. Dr. Kamrani is also an experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of working in higher education Biomedical Engineering, the medical device industry and AI-enabled Wearable/Implantable Healthcare Technology. Dr. Kamrani’s research interests cover several areas of wearable/implantable wireless biomedical circuits and systems, including wireless theranostic bio-optoelectronics, wireless power transfer, on-chip theranostic systems, photomedicine, and monitoring/treatment of ocular-neurovascular disorders. His goal is to develop technologies using photons and nanotechnology to probe life sciences, visualize health, and treat diseases. Taking multidisciplinary approaches, his research spans a wide spectrum from satisfying the intellectual curiosity to solving real-world problems. Ehsan Kamrani received his B.S. in Bioengineering and biomedical engineering from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, a M.S. from Tarbiat Modares University in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Polytechnique Montreal, Canada, in 2014. He was a Research Assistant with the Polystim Neurotechnologies Laboratory, Montreal, from 2009 to 2014, and appointed as a Visiting Scholar with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T), Cambridge, MA, USA, and a Research Assistant with the Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, from 2012 to 2014. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar with the Biomedical Nanomaterials Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea, in 2014. Since 2014, Dr. Kamrani has been with Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology and the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, where he is involved in an active bio-optics project for developing novel innovative technologies by integration of photonics and biological system aiming at developing a novel diagnostic optical instrument for medical applications. He is a member of Technical Committee of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems, and a member of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, and the International Society for Optics and Photonics. Dr. Kamrani has been a recipient of 15 prestigious scientific awards, including the Best Paper Awards from CFSC’03, ACFAS’12, MIOMD’12, and the 2013 Polytechnique Research & Innovation. Dr. Kamrani is fluent in English, Persian and has professional working proficiency in French, limited working proficiency in Arabic and Spanish and elementary proficiency in Korean.

Dr. Sahar Ghiasikhou is a biotechnology enthusiast and entrepreneur based in Zurich, Switzerland. She is a member of the Iranian National Foundation of Elites, ...the Swiss Chemical Society, and the American Society of Mass Spectrometry. She was born in 1989 and raised in Hamedan, Iran, where she studied at the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents. During high school, she participated in the 2008 National Chemistry Olympiad, ranking first in Experimental Chemistry and receiving a silver medal in the competition overall. Later, she pursued her B.Sc. studies at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, while simultaneously preparing students of nine Iranian provinces for National Chemistry Olympiads. In 2012, she left Iran for Lausanne, Switzerland and obtained her M.Sc. in Material Science and Engineering at EPFL (one of the top 20 engineering universities worldwide). In 2014, she moved to Zurich and completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Applied Bioscience at ETH (one of the top 5 universities for Chemistry worldwide). In collaboration with Hoffmann-La Roche, a pioneering pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, she successfully developed an autosampler for the ESI-mass spectrometer, which significantly enhances drug discovery efficiency. She also developed a new method for extracting anti-cancer drugs from human plasma, published as the forefront paper in the Journal of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. In 2017, she was one of the selected Entrepreneurs by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation. In the same year, she served on the Organizing Committee of the Iranian Inventions Grand Prize Festival in Tehran, Iran, which was attended by more than 2000 inventor participants and resulted in 16 Start-ups. At this leading national event, she gave a lecture on the topic: Preparation of a Business Plan and Fundraising for Start-ups. After her Ph.D., she started working as a product manager with a focus on Medical Devices (diagnostics) and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Currently, she is also focusing on her entrepreneurial skillsets through her studies in Leadership and Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Her research interests include Diagnostics, Oncology Therapeutics, Drug Discovery, Small-molecule Research, Microfluidics, Mass Spectrometry, Solid-phase Microextraction, Next-generation Sequencing, and Chemical Surface Modification. Her main hobbies include sports such as basketball (gold medal of Iran in 2003), swimming, and hiking, as well as oil colour and watercolour painting, reading, and travelling. She speaks English, German, Persian, and Azeri."

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