Collaborators

Over the years the AMPL lab has developed many rich collaborations with the neighboring scientific community. The flow of ideas from these individuals has greatly helped enhance the quality of research preformed at this lab and the AMPL group is proud and grateful to have worked with such fine individuals.

	Apostolos Doukas Research Scientist, Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Apostolos Doukas received his Ph.D. in Physics from the City University of New York. He held faculty positions in the Department of Physics at the City College of New York and School of Engineering University of Thessaloniki. He has been with the Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School for the last twelve years. His research interests are in the study of pressure waves for drug delivery and the identification of spectroscopic markers in vivo, which can be used for the study of physiological conditions.
	Max Goodson (Director, Clinical Collaborative, The Forsyth Institute, Boston) Max Goodson earned the Dental Degree from the University of Texas-Health Science Center at Houston, a Masters of Science degree in Dental Research from the University of Rochester and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Rochester. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Periodontology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is the Founder and Director of the Forsyth Clinical Collaborative that facilitates robust and visionary clinical research studies and collaborates with many dental schools, hospitals, and research institutions in the Boston area.
	Philip Stashenko senior member of the staff - interim President, Forsyth Institute Phil Stashenko earned the Dental degree from Harvard University. He was awarded a Certificate in Endodontics and a Ph.D. in Immunology from Harvard University. He is an Associate Professor of the Harvard-Forsyth Department of Oral Biology and the Vice President for Research at the Forsyth Institute. The goal of his research activities is to identify molecules expressed by osteoclasts as well as signaling molecules produced during inflammation, which regulate the activity of osteoclasts, and to use these molecules as targets for new drugs.
	Philip S. Stewart Director, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Professor - Chemical Engineering, Montana State University-Bozeman Phil Stewart earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He has worked as a Research and Development Engineer in France and Switzerland. His areas of expertise are: biofilm control with antimicrobial agents, transport phenomena in biofilms, biofilm modeling and biofilm detachment. Since 1996 he has been Research Coordinator and Deputy Director of the Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University.
	Mansoor Amiji Professor and Associate Department Chairman, Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Northeastern Univ., Boston Mansoor M. Amiji is a Professor and Associate Department Chairman in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Amiji received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy (magna cum laude) from Northeastern University in the 1988 and a doctoral degree in pharmaceutics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN in the summer of 1992. Dr. Amiji returned to Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in January of 1993. He received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and is now the Associate Director of the Integrative Graduate Education, Research and Training (IGERT) preogram in nanomedicine science and technology at Northeastern University..