Wan Y Shih

Dr. Wan Y. Shih is presently a Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health System at Drexel University, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She received her BS in physics from Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan in 1976 and her PhD in Physics from Ohio State University in 1984. She was a Research Scientist in the Materials Institute at Princeton University and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University prior to joining School of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University in 2006. She is a recipient of the American Ceramic Society 1999 Edward C. Henry Electronics Division Best Paper Award. She became interested in translational biomedical research in ca 2000. Her goal in translational biomedical research has been to combine her physical science and engineering background with medicine to create revolutionary biomedical devices to fulfill unmet needs in medicine. Since 2000, she has amply demonstrated her ability to create original, groundbreaking biomedical technologies such as the groundbreaking piezoelectric finger (PEF) breast cancer detector that detects breast cancers undetectable by Mammography, an intraoperative breast cancer margin assessment tool, and the revolutionary PEPS molecular tests. She has had 116 scientific publications, 38 issued patents and 23 patent applications. Four of her technologies have been licensed including a hand-held, non-radioactive, non-invasive breast cancer detector (trade name: Intelligent Breast Exam (iBE)), which has screened more than 200,000 women and found 120 breast cancers in 12 countries since the inception of its partnership with GE Global Health in 2017 and is expanding rapidly in Asia, Africa, and Mexico.