Team Categories: Leadership

Abraham P. Lee, Ph.D.

Dr. Lee is Professor of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department with a courtesy appointment in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Lee’s lab focuses on microfluidic platforms applied to point-of-care and molecular diagnostics, sample preparation and liquid biopsy, artificial cell vesicles for theranostics, cell engineering, single cell processing and …

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Christopher C.W. Hughes, Ph.D.

Dr. Hughes is a professor in the Departments of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. His recent appointments have included Department Chair, Director of the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, and co-director of the Onco-Imaging and Biotechnology (OIB) Program, part of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCI. …

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Ming-I Huang

Ming-I Huang is Aracari’s Chief Executive Officer. She is also the Chief Financial Officer of Aracari since its founding. Previously she was a partner at Strategic Risk Partners, which digitizes underwriting platforms for insurance companies. As the Finance Director for AIG’s Global Casualty Division and Senior Managing Director of Global Actuarial and Value Management, she …

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G. Wesley Hatfield, Ph.D.

Dr. Hatfield has extensive academic and entrepreneurial experience. Throughout his professional career, he has been a strong advocate in support of technology transfer from the academic to the commercial sector and served on many UCI campus, UC system-wide, and state and national committees. He has been a founder and investor in several biotechnology companies and …

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Steven C. George, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. George is Chair of the department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis. His work currently focuses on creating tissue engineered models of the cardiac, pancreas, and cancer microenvironments using induced pluripotent stem cell and microfabrication technology. He was on the faculty at the University of California, Irvine for 19 years (1995-2014) …

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