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Dr. Gymama Slaughter is the Executive Director of the Old Dominion University Research Center for Bioelectronics, leading efforts to bridge clinical and basic science in precision medicine, therapeutics, diagnostics, environmental health, and women’s health. She collaborates across ODU to align faculty expertise with government and industry research initiatives. As a Visiting Scholar at the Naval Research Laboratory in DC, she researched flexible biodegradable sensors for biochemical warfare detection. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, TEDCO Maryland Innovative Initiative, and the Maryland Industry Partnership. She was recently named to Virginia Business magazine’s 100 People to Meet list for 2024. Additionally, Slaughter has published over 110 scientific papers. Her honors and awards include the NSF’s prestigious CAREER AWARD, NIH G-RISE Award, Up and Coming UMBC Inventor Award, Greater Richmond Technology Council RichTech Educator Award, and the Richmond Joint Engineers Consortium Community Service Award. She is the associate editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal and the Nature Scientific Reports Journal. Slaughter received a B.S. in Chemistry, M.S. in Chemical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Center for Bioelectronics at ODU
