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About the Speaker: Dr. Steinmetz is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She is the founding Director of the Center for Nano-ImmunoEngineering (nanoIE), the Co-Director for the Center for Engineering in Cancer, and serves on the Leadership Team for a UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), an $18M NSF-funded research center. Dr. Steinmetz trained at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; she obtained her PhD in Bionanotechnology from the University of East Anglia/John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK; her early training was at the RWTH-Aachen University in Germany. Dr. Steinmetz’s research program focuses on the engineering of plant virus-based nanomaterials targeting human and plant health applications, such as drug and pesticide delivery, vaccines and immunotherapies. Dr. Steinmetz has authored closet to 300 journal articles (H index >70) and she is an inventor of >70 patents and patent applications. Dr. Steinmetz is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the International Association of Advanced Materials, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Steinmetz’s research program is supported through grants from NIH, NSF, NIFA, CDMRP as well as ACS, Susan G. Komen, AHA, amongst other agencies. Over the past 10+ years, Dr. Steinmetz has been awarded grants as PI and Co-PI totaling ~ $50 million in total costs.