Thomas J. Webster received a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD degree in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was a professor at Purdue University, Brown University, and Northeastern University and has formed many companies that developed FDA-approved medical products. He is currently helping those companies while serving as a professor at Hebei University of Technology, Saveetha University, Vellore Institute of Technology, UFPI, and others. He has received numerous prestigious awards and was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.