Shuming Nie MS, PhD

Shuming Nie, PhD, was the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, with joint appointments in chemistry, materials science and engineering, and hematology and oncology. Dr. Nie is now a faculty member at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

During 15 years at Emory and Georgia Tech, he helped grow the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering to national and international prominence, leading the country in biomedical engineering education and research. While at Emory/Georgia Tech, he was the principal investigator and Director of the Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology, one of the eight national centers funded by the National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI). Dr. Nie is a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.