ABDELHAMID ELAISSARI is Director of Research at the CNRS-bioMerieux laboratory, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France. His main research specialty is in the elaboration of polymer colloids and magnetic latexes for biomedical applications. In addition to holding nearly 15 patents, Dr. Elaissari has published numerous book chapters, reviews, and papers, including over 80 journal articles. He is a member of the International Colloids Polymer Group and has given numerous invited lectures worldwide. Dr. Elaissari received the M.S. degree (1988) from Agadir University, Morocco, and the Ph.D. degree (1991) in chemical physics from the Institut Charles Sadron, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France.