Frederick H. Silver
Rutgers University, USA
Biography
Dr. Frederick H. Silver is a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He did his Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering at M.I.T. with Dr. Ioannis Yannas, the inventor of the Integra artificial skin, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Developmental Medicine at Mass General Hospital in Boston, MA with Dr. Robert L. Trelstad, a connective tissue pathologist. A US Patent has been granted and a European Patent has been filed on vibrational evaluation of tissues. His interests include the structure and properties of extracellular matrix (ECM) in health and diseases and mechanobiology. The goal of his research is to apply techniques of polymer science to elucidation of physical biomarkers of disease. He has published numerous papers on skin biomechanics during the last 40 years.