Wankei Wan
Director of R&D, Chief Technology Advisor
Biomedical Engineering
Axcelon Biopolymers Corporation
Canada
Biography
Dr. Wan is Director, Transgenic Spider Silk Research, AFMNet and Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, and a Full Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at The University of Western Ontario (UWO). He is the inventor of the patent for dissolving and casting bacterial cellulose as well as co-inventor on three other biocellulose related patent and patent applications (assigned to Axcelon). He is a chemistry graduate from the State University of New York at Buffalo, N.Y. and has had extensive industrial experience as a Senior Scientist for the Exxon Research and Engineering Company and Imperial Oil Limited. Dr. Wan is an inventor of several processes which are the subject of patents and patent applications and is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering at UWO. He has published extensively and has been a recipient of several peer-reviewed grants.
Research Interest
Transgenic Spider Silk, bacterial cellulose
