Shayn M. Peirce Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 (speircevirginia.edu). Dr. Peirce is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She received her B.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and her Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2002. Dr. Peirce's research focuses on developing in vivo and computational techniques to study tissue-patterning processes during microvascular growth and embryogenesis.

Thomas C. Skalak Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 29908 (tskalakvirginia.edu). Dr. Skalak has served as Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia since 2001. He received his B.E.S. degree in bioengineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 and his Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the University of California at San Diego in 1984. He has been a faculty member of the University of Virginia since 1986, holds the rank of Professor, and is the past President of the national Biomedical Engineering Society. Dr. Skalak's experimental and theoretical research has been directed toward quantitative analysis of microvascular function, hemodynamics, tissue repair, and arteriolar adaptation. His work has included detailed computer-aided reconstructions of microvascular networks, large-scale computer simulations of blood flow, and modeling of vascular assembly and pattern formation in microvessel networks.

Jason A. Papin Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 29908 (papinvirginia.edu). Dr. Papin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He received his B.S. degree in bioengineering in 2000 from the University of California at San Diego. He continued his postgraduate education at the University of California at San Diego, receiving his Ph.D. degree with an additional specialization in bioinformatics in 2004. Dr. Papin's research group is interested in cellular signaling networks. His group is pursuing ongoing projects on the study of polymicrobial interactions in human disease; the reconstruction and integration of cellular signaling, regulatory, and metabolic networks for model organisms; and the analysis of human signaling networks in cancer.