Research Theme:
Cellular & Molecular Engineering,Research Interests:
Biomedical Engineering, Biofluids, Pulmonary Drug Delivery, Microphysiological systems inhalation
Biography:
Josué joined the School of Biomedical Engineering in the fall of 2026 as the Sir Magdi Yacoub UBC Professor in Tissue Regeneration. Prior to that, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Technion in 2010, Josué earned a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from MIT (2002) and a Dr. Sc. from ETH Zurich (2008). Thereafter, he spent time as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and later moved to Princeton University as a Lecturer and Research Associate appointed by the Princeton Council of Science & Technology. With over 100 published journal articles and several patents to his record, Josué’s research stronghold lies in the field of pulmonary bioengineering for translational endpoints in respiratory medicine, including drug delivery to the lungs. Among his accolades, Sznitman was awarded the Young Investigator Award (2015) by the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine for a researcher under the age of 40 and the 2018 Emerging Scientist Award in Drug Delivery to the Lungs (The Aerosol Society, UK). Since 2019, he serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Clinical Biomechanics and was previously an Associate Editor for the Journal of Biomechanics. He sits on the Editorial Board of Biomicrofluidics and the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and is a member of the World Council of Biomechanics.