{"id":4932,"date":"2019-04-04T14:09:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/?page_id=4932"},"modified":"2019-04-04T14:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:13:27","slug":"passion-for-biotechnology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/passion-for-biotechnology\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion for Biotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My passion for biotechnology began while working in different capacities at my family\u2019s business that manufactured silicone medical products (Sil-Med\u00ae Corporation).\u00a0 \u00a0I have served in a leadership capacity for several societies (RES, IEEE, BMES, and EMBS) and have served on the Board of Directors for regional organizations (RES, and MedTech) with ties to the biotechnology sector across Upstate NY.\u00a0 In this capacity, I have helped to organize several large scale biotechnical events.\u00a0Most recently, I serve as the Executive Director for the <a href=\"http:\/\/cmti.rochester.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Medical Technology &amp; Innovation at the University of Rochester\u00a0<\/a>within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/bme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Biomedical Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My passion for biotechnology began while working in different capacities at my family\u2019s business that manufactured silicone medical products (Sil-Med\u00ae Corporation).\u00a0 \u00a0I have served in a leadership capacity for several societies (RES, IEEE, BMES, and EMBS) and have served on the Board of Directors for regional organizations (RES, and MedTech) with ties to the biotechnology sector across Upstate NY.\u00a0 In this capacity, I have helped to organize several large scale biotechnical events.\u00a0Most recently, I serve as the Executive Director for the Center for Medical Technology &amp; Innovation at the University of Rochester\u00a0within the Department of Biomedical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4932","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4932\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}