Cardiovascular and Respiratory Bioengineering

Nenad D. Filipovic is Rector of University of Kragujevac, Serbia, full Professor at Faculty of Engineering and Head of Center for Bioengineering at University of Kragujevac, Serbia. He was Research Associate at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, US. His research interests are in the area of biomedical engineering, cardiovascular disease, fluid-structure interaction, biomechanics, bioinformatics, biomedical image processing, medical informatics, multi-scale modeling, data mining, software engineering, parallel computing, computational chemistry and bioprocess modeling. He is author and co-author 16 textbooks and 11 monographies, over 300 publications in peer review journals and over 10 software for modeling with finite element method and discrete methods from biofluid mechanics and multiphysics. He also leads a number of national and international projects in EU and US in area of bioengineering and software development. He is Director of Center for Bioengineering at University of Kragujevac and leads joint research projects with Harvard University and University of Texas in area of bio-nano-medicine computer simulation. He also leads a number of national and international projects in area of bioengineering and bioinformatics. He is a Managing Editor for Journal of Serbian Society for Computational Mechanics and member of European Society of Biomechanics (ESB), European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO) and IEEE member.

• 1. Blood flow through arteries2. Computational modeling of plaque progression3. Optimization of stent deployment4. Predictive modelling of Abdominal Aorta Aneurism5. Computer models of Purkinje fibers network with different electrical potential6. Modeling of cardiomyopathies caused by sarcomeric gene mutations7. Design of inhalation drug therapy8. Particles deposition in the respiratory region of the lung9. Transport in the lung airways10. Distribution of inhaled drug particles11. Computational modelling of dry powder inhalers for pulmonary drug delivery