Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie is President and
Senior Fellow of the
American International Institute of Medical Sciences,
Engineering, and Innovation (AIIMSEI.org). He currently serves as a Senior Dresden
Fellow and Visiting Distinguished
Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, and as a TEES Collaborator at
Texas A&M University.
Dr. Guiseppi-Elie brings over three decades of experience bridging academia,
industry, and innovation. He has spent 15
years in industrial research and product development, and 18 years as a tenured,
titled, and endowed professor at
leading institutions including Virginia Commonwealth University, Clemson University,
Texas A&M University (TAMU), and
Anderson University. At TAMU, he was Head of the Department of Biomedical
Engineering and co-founded the Engineering
Medicine (ENMED) program, where he also served as the Founding Associate Dean of
Engineering Innovation.
At Anderson University, Dr. Guiseppi-Elie held dual leadership roles as Vice
President of Industry Relations and
Founding Dean of the College of Engineering. His academic appointments span
departments of Chemical Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Emergency Medicine.
He is the Founder, President, and Scientific Director of ABTECH Scientific, Inc.,
and has co-founded three startup
companies. A U.S. citizen born in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Guiseppi-Elie earned his
Sc.D. in Materials Science and
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an M.Sc. in
Chemical Engineering from the University
of Manchester (UMIST), and a B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Applied, Analytical, and
Biochemistry from the University of
the West Indies (UWI).
Dr. Guiseppi-Elie is an accomplished scholar with over 225 peer-reviewed publications, 8
U.S. patents, an h-index of 52,
and more than 10,300 citations (as of May 2025). He has been recognized as a 2012–2013
IEEE-EMBS Distinguished Lecturer,
the 2013 Avis Visiting Professor in Pharmaceutics at the University of Tennessee, and a
Fulbright Specialist
(2015–2019), with academic engagements in France, Argentina, and Poland.
He is a Fellow of several prestigious societies, including the IEEE, AIMBE, BMES, RSC,
and RSM. His research focuses on
physiological monitoring during hemorrhagic trauma and allotransplantation, polymeric
nanobiomaterials for drug delivery
and tissue regeneration, and the development of microanalytical systems for advancing
human health and medicine.