Founding Dean of Engineering, Vice President for Industry Relations, and University Distinguished Professor at Anderson University, South Carolina
Dr. Guiseppi-Elie is the Founding Dean of Engineering, Vice President for Industry Relations and University Distinguished Professor at Anderson University, South Carolina. Dr. Guiseppi-Elie formerly served as Associate Dean for Engineering Innovation in Engineering Medicine (EnMed) at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and Houston Methodist Hospital (HMH) where he was the TEES Professor of Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and at Houston Methodist Hospital, he was Full Affiliate Member of the Houston Methodist Research Institute and Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Engineering. Previously, he was Department Head of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the TEES Division of Biomedical Engineering at TAMU and directed the Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B®) Laboratories as a member of the joint EnMed Faculty Regenerative Engineering Working Group. He is Founder, President and Scientific Director of ABTECH Scientific, Inc., a near-patient biomedical diagnostics company and has been associated with three start-up companies.
He holds the Sc.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT, the M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and the B.Sc. (First Class Honors) with majors in Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Applied Chemistry from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He has spent 15 years in both intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial industrial research and product development before becoming a full Professor of Chemical and Life Science Engineering (1998) and Professor of Emergency Medicine (2000) at Virginia Commonwealth University/ Medical College of Virginia. In 2006, he joined Clemson University as the Dow Chemical Professor with appointments in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2020 he moved to his current appointments at Anderson University.