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John Bischof is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Urologic Surgery at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Bischof received a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley in 1987 and an M.S. from U.C. Berkeley and San Francisco in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 1992. After a Post-doctoral Fellowship at Harvard, he joined the University of Minnesota in 1993. He currently holds a McKnight Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota.
Professor Bischof is an author on numerous peer reviewed publications; he has several patents filed or issued and numerous Young Investigator and Best Paper awards in bioheat transfer including the George Taylor Research Award at the University of Minnesota. He is recipient of a Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the ASME and the AIMBE. He has been active in the governance of the Society for Cryobiology and the ASME Bioengineering Division. He is also a member of the Society for Thermal Medicine and the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Professor Bischof’s research interests are broadly in the area of thermophysical and biological changes within biomaterials after thermal manipulations (i.e. heating or cooling). This work is broadly in the scientific field of thermal biology including cryobiology (low temperature biology) and hyperthermic biology. Of particular current interest is thermal therapy for treatment of cancer, cardiovascular and neural disease. One promising avenue being explored is the use of drugs and nanoparticles to pre-incubate or pre-condition tissues (i.e. inflammatory, immune or wound healing response) prior to thermal therapies to improve clinical outcomes. |
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