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Blackman, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Company, is co-inventor of the HemoShear technology and co-founder of HemoShear. He is responsible for scientific development of HemoShear’s commercial relationships.

Prior to HemoShear, he was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia (U.Va.). At U.Va., Dr. Blackman’s lab made fundamental advances in uncovering the importance of hemodynamics and biological transport in atherosclerosis-based diseases and has made numerous novel scientific discoveries in vascular cell biology.

Blackman also served in leadership positions with U.Va.’s School of Engineering and Sciences Dean’s Research Advisory Committee, the Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center and the American Heart Association Bioengineering & Biotechnology study section.

Blackman trained as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Vascular Research Division, Department of Pathology of Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He obtained a BS in mechanical engineering from Drexel University and a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Blackman currently holds the academic position of adjunct associate professor of biomedical engineering at U.Va.