Prof. Dr. Bruce Gale received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1995 and his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Utah in 2000. He was an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University before returning to the University of Utah in 2001, where he is now Chair and a professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently the Director of the Utah State Center of Excellence for Biomedical Microfluidics, a center devoted to research and commercialization activities around microfluidic devices. He has published more than 150 journal papers and has been recognized with multiple awards. His primary interests include solving medical, biology, and chemistry problems using a variety of microfluidic approaches to complex and challenging medical and biological assays.  His ultimate goal is to develop platforms for personalized medicine, which should allow medical treatments to be customized to the needs of individual patients.  He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors and holds more than 27 patents.