Professor and Chair, Department of Urology Dr. Manyak is also Professor of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at GWUMC. He completed a fellowship in biotechnology as an American Foundation For Urological Disease (AFUD) Scholar at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He currently sits on the FDA Advisory Panel for GU and GI devices which determines device approval as the only voting urologist. Dr. Manyak was one of the founding members of LACAM. His research interests include the expression and regulation of a protein which inhibits metastasis, monoclonal antibody use for detection of prostate cancer metastasis, surgical simulation with virtual reality, and other applications of medical biotechnology. He has been granted 10 patents with several pending, and is on the scientific advisory board or consultant to more than 25 biomedical technology companies. E-mail: mmanyak@mfa.gwu.edu