R Lyle Hood
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
Biography
Dr. Hood obtained his Bachelor’s Degree at University of Houston and his Masters and Ph.D. at Virginia Tech in 2013. His dissertation described the invention and development of a novel fiberoptic catheter design for treating brain and bladder cancers. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the HMRI working with silicon nanochannel technologies for therapeutic controlled release and cell transplantation. He has published over a dozen patents and peer-reviewed manuscripts relating to device design and drug delivery.