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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, October 11, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM PDT
    BMES Board of Directors Meeting
  • 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
    2023 BME-IDEA Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Industry Tours (Ticketed Event)
  • 12:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT
    Registration Opens
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
    AIMBE Academic Council Meeting
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Meet the Faculty Candidates Forum
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT
    How to Maximize Your Conference Experience with Annual Meeting Co-Chairs:  Stacey Finley, Brendan Harley, and Kelly Stevens
  • 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
    BME-IDEA Reception
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT
    Special Event - Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall
  • 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Council of Chairs Meeting (invitation only)
  • 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Council of Diversity Dinner Meeting (invitation only)
  • 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM PDT
    Special Event - LGBTQIA+ in BME & Friends Dessert Social  (ticket purchase required)
  • Thursday, October 12, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM PDT
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Special Interest Group - Council Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Registration Badge Pickup
  • 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM PDT
    High School Expo and Poster Competition Orientation 
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    BMES Advanced BioManufacturing SIG
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Medical Device Security Regulations
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Accessible Technologies and Sex Differences in Women's Health
    Moderator: Christine O'Brien – Washington University in St. Louis
    Moderator: Maral Mousavi (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Women's Health
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Advancements in Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration: From Targeted Delivery to Electric Stimulation
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Aidan E. Gilchrist (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
    Moderator: Settimio Pacelli
    Biomaterials
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Biomedical Engineering (BME) Education
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Biofluid Mechanics
    Moderator: Mitchel Colebank, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California, Irvine
    Moderator: Valerie Tutwiler
    Biomechanics
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Bioimaging
    Moderator: Leopold Green – Purdue University
    Moderator: Omid Yaghmazadeh, PhD (he/him/his) – New York University School of Medicine
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Bioinformatics
    Track Chair: Jiahe Li
    Moderator: Ivana Parker, Ph.D. – University of Florida
    Moderator: Douglas Brubaker – Center for Global Health and Diseases, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine & Blood Heart Lung Immunology Research Center, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Biomaterials/3D Printing
    Moderator: Katherine Hixon (she/her/hers) – Dartmouth College
    Moderator: Irene de Lazaro, PhD MSc PharmD (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Biomanufacturing
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    BMES National Meetings Committee & 2024 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Meeting (invitation only)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Bone
    Moderator: Nick Willett, PhD – University of Oregon, Knight Campus
    Moderator: Hannah M. Zlotnick, PhD (she/her/hers) – BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Brain & CNS delivery
    Moderator: Leo Chou
    Moderator: Ching-An Peng, n/a – University of Idaho
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Cancer Drug Delivery and Nanotechnology I
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Daniel Hayes – Pennsylvania State University
    Moderator: Anandi Krishnan, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University - School of Medicine
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Cancer Mechanobiology

    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD – Cornell University

    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University

    Moderator: Indrajit Sriastava – Texas Tech University

    Moderator: Panagiotis Mistriotis – Auburn University

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Hemodynamics
    Moderator: Lucas Timmins
    Moderator: Matthew Bersi – Washington University in St. Louis
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Computational Method Development in Deep Learning
    Moderator: Sepideh Dolatshahi, PhD – University of Virgina, Charlottesville
    Moderator: Daniel Abebayehu
    Data Analysis and Deep Learning
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Computational Models of cellular immunology
    Moderator: Mohammad Aminul Islam, PhD (he/him/his) – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Moderator: Ashlee N. Ford Versypt – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Engaging and Empowering Diverse Populations in BME
    Track Chair: Stacey Finley (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Track Chair: Kelly Stevens – University of Washington
    Track Chair: Brendan A.C. Harley – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Moderator: John R. Clegg, Ph.D. – University of Oklahoma
    Moderator: Mykel D. Green, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas, Austin
    Social Transformation
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Engineering Endocrine Tissue Function
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Exploring Biomaterials for Advanced Drug Delivery: From Design to Therapeutic Applications
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Craig L. Duvall – Vanderbilt University
    Moderator: Simone A. Douglas-Green, PhD (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Biomaterials
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Innovations in Regenerative Medicine: Focusing on Endometrium, Muscle, and Wound Healing
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Karina Nakayama, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health & Science University
    Moderator: Donald Griffin
    Biomaterials
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Nuclear Medicine
    Moderator: Curtis L. Johnson (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Moderator: Yingxiao Wang – University of Southern California
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Multiomics-guided engineering of cellular responses
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Rong Fan (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Moderator: Michael Diehl, PhD – Rice University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Novel Carriers and Delivery Systems
    Moderator: Teng Su, PhD (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Moderator: Lakeshia J. Taite – University of Virginia
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Photoacoustic Imaging
    Track Chair: Karl Lewis
    Track Chair: Ria Mazumder, PhD (she/her/hers) – Widener University
    Moderator: Albert Kim – University of South Florida
    Moderator: Brent Winslow
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Starting Off Right: Tips and Tricks for Your First Faculty Position
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Systems analysis of cell signaling
    Moderator: Tamara Kinzer-Ursem – Purdue University
    Moderator: Feilim Mac Gabhann, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Tumor Microenvironment
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Walter L. Murfee – University of Florida
    Moderator: Catherine F. Whittington – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Vascular Tissue Engineering
    Keynote Speaker: Guohao Dai, Fellow, AHA AIMBE (he/him/his) – Northeastern University
    Moderator: Moriah Katt – West Virginia University
    Moderator: Zhongkui Hong, PhD – Texas Tech University
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
    Learn how you can advance your future in medical device innovation and healthcare design with Johns Hopkins University’s master’s program in bioengineering innovation and design
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
    Posters - Poster Session A 
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM PDT
    Plenary Sessions - State of the Society with Cynthia Reinhart-King & Pritzker Distinguished Lecture
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Cardiovascular Engineering & Technology Journal Editorial Board Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Lunch on Own
  • 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
    Special Event - Celebration of  Communities of Color in BME Luncheon (ticket purchase required)
  • 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM PDT
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Board of Associate Editors Business Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PDT
    Resilience and Mental Health in Biomedical Engineering Faculty and Students
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Advancements in Biomaterials for Cardiac Tissue Engineering: From Spheroid Assembly to Targeted Delivery
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Amber Doiron
    Moderator: Perla Ayala, Ph.D. – CSU Long Beach
    Biomaterials
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Applications of Deep Learning Approaches in Biomedical Engineering
    Moderator: Belinda Akpa, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Moderator: Bryana Harris, BChE – University of Virginia
    Data Analysis and Deep Learning
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Biomaterials in Women's Health
    Moderator: Kaitlin Fogg, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
    Moderator: Matthew Bersi – Washington University in St. Louis
    Women's Health
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    BME Master's Program Workshop: Types & Challenges
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Cancer
    Moderator: Joscelyn Mejias, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Moderator: Ali Salifu
    Drug Delivery
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Cancer Drug Delivery and Nanotechnology II
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Richard Heller, PhD – University of South Florida
    Moderator: Jyothi Menon – University of Rhode Island
    Cancer Technologies
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Cancer

    Moderator: Joscelyn Mejias, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

    Moderator: Ali Salifu

  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Cardiac Pathophysiology: electrophysiology and heart valves
    Moderator: Saami Yazdani – Wake Forest University, Dept of Engineering
    Moderator: Pim Oomen, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California, Irvine
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Cardiovascular Biomechanics I
    Moderator: Brooks Lindsey, PhD (he/him/his) – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Wuqiang Zhu
    Biomechanics
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Cartilage I
    Moderator: Blanka Sharma – University OF Florida
    Moderator: Jenny Puetzer (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Cell Production
    Moderator: Yuguo Lei, PHD – Penn State University
    Moderator: Xiaoping Bao (he/him/his) – Purdue University
    Biomanufacturing
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Cell-cell interactions to tailor cell functions
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Karin Wang – Temple University
    Moderator: Catherine Kim – Yale University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Computational Modeling of Cancer and Systems Biology
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Ioannis Zervantonakis (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh
    Moderator: Sepideh Dolatshahi, PhD – University of Virgina, Charlottesville
    Cancer Technologies
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound and Therapeutic Ultrasound
    Moderator: Choon Hwai Yap (he/him/his) – Imperial College London
    Moderator: Junjie Yao – Duke University
    Track Chair: Ria Mazumder, PhD (she/her/hers) – Widener University
    Track Chair: Karl Lewis
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Diagnostic tools
    Track Chair: Jiahe Li
    Track Chair: Ana M. Porras, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Moderator: Sangmoo Jeong
    Moderator: Tatiana Z. Cuellar-Gaviria, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Engineering Organ-on-Chip Systems I
    Moderator: Renita Horton
    Moderator: Yuliang Xie – Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Forensic Biomedical Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Guidelines for Equitable Faculty Hiring based on Research and Practice
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Implantable Devices
    Moderator: Margot damaser
    Moderator: Christopher T. Wagner – The College of New Jersey
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Machine learning for biomedical applications
    Moderator: Jishnu Das, PhD – University of Pittsburgh
    Moderator: Daniel Reker – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Mechnoimmunobiology
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Track Chair: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Track Chair: Kathryn Miller-Jensen – Yale University
    Moderator: Karin Wang – Temple University
    Moderator: Dana Reinemann, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Mississippi
    Immunoengineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Multicellular Engineered Living Systems
    Moderator: Mehdi Jorfi, PhD – Harvard Medical School
    Moderator: Yi Zheng, PhD (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    Keynote Speaker: Martin Trapecar – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Institute for Fundamental Biomedical Research
    Tissue Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Neural Devices to Restore Function After Spinal Cord Injury
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    NIH / NIBIB Funding Panel
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Poster Rapid Fire 1
    Moderator: Craig L. Duvall – Vanderbilt University
    Moderator: Natalia Higuita-Castro, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Ting-Yu Shih, PhD (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Drug Delivery
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Representation in BME Research and Data for Health Equity I
    Track Chair: Stacey Finley (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Track Chair: Kelly Stevens – University of Washington
    Track Chair: Brendan A.C. Harley – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Moderator: Patrick M. Boyle – University of Washington
    Moderator: Erica Pratt, PhD (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Social Transformation
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Science, Engineering, and Identity
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering and Disease Modeling
    Moderator: Jingwei Xie – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Moderator: Abhinav Bhushan – Illinois Institute of Technology
    Keynote Speaker: Feng Zhao – Texas A&M University
    Tissue Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Systems analysis of spatial and microbial cell signaling
    Track Chair: Aaron Meyer – University of California, Los Angeles
    Moderator: Jaeyun Sung
    Moderator: Ashlee N. Ford Versypt – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
    High School Poster Competition
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    AIMBE Board Meeting
  • 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
    Posters - Poster Session B 
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    The 11th US-Korea Joint Workshop on Biomedical Engineering (2-4pm?)
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Deconstructing Virtual Communications
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Advancements in Biomaterials Scaffolds: From Hydrogels to Elastomers
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Wilson Poon – University of Texas at El Paso
    Moderator: Michael Blatchley, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Biomaterials
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Advancements in Experimental & Computational Cardiovascular Engineering
    Keynote Speaker: Johnathan Tune, PhD – University of North Texas Health Science Center
    Moderator: Reza Avaz
    Moderator: Ellie Rahbar – Wake Forest School of Medicine
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Athanasiou Student and Post-doc Awards Session
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Biohybrid Systems and Human-Machine Interfaces
    Moderator: Siwei Zhao – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Black Women in Biomedical Engineering: Reconnect and Rejuvenate
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    BME Resume Guidance and Review
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Cancer Mechanobiology
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Indrajit Sriastava – Texas Tech University
    Moderator: Panagiotis Mistriotis – Auburn University
    Cancer Technologies
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Cardiovascular Biomechanics 2: Modeling
    Moderator: Chiara Bellini, PhD (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University
    Moderator: Jacopo Ferruzzi
    Biomechanics
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Cell/Tissue Mechanobiology
    Moderator: Nehal Abu-Lai
    Moderator: Roberto Alonso Matilla – University of Minnesota
    Biomechanics
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    DEI and Engineering Identity
    Moderator: Mirela Ovreiu
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Design, Laboratories, and Capstone
    Moderator: Dawn M. Kilkenny – Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
    Moderator: Isaac Macwan – Fairfield University
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Drug delivery to the pulmonary and digestive systems
    Moderator: Renato Navarro, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University
    Drug Delivery
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Endoscopy, OCT, X-Ray and CT
    Moderator: Brooks Lindsey, PhD (he/him/his) – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Yin Ren, MD, PhD – Division of Otology, Neurotology, and Cranial Base Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Engineering models
    Track Chair: Jiahe Li
    Track Chair: Ana M. Porras, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Moderator: Gregg Duncan – University of Maryland
    Moderator: Rebecca Byler – Yale University
    Moderator: shengjie zhai – University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Engineering Organ-on-Chip Systems II
    Moderator: Abhinav Bhushan – Illinois Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Bethany Almeida, PhD (she/her/hers) – Clarkson University
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Female Cancers
    Moderator: Jenna Mueller, Dr. – Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland
    Moderator: María Virumbrales-Muñoz – University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Women's Health
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Inside the NIH and NSF: Funding Priorities and the Review Process
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Model Systems for Studying CNS Tissues and Diseases
    Moderator: Dany Munoz Pinto
    Moderator: Allison Andrews, PhD – Temple University, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
    Moderator: Diego F. Alzate (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University
    Neural Engineering
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Molecular Immunoengineering
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Track Chair: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Track Chair: Kathryn Miller-Jensen – Yale University
    Moderator: Handan Acar – University of Oklahoma Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering
    Moderator: Aaron H. Morris, PhD – University of Michigan
    Immunoengineering
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Multiscale integrative systems biology
    Moderator: Ashlee N. Ford Versypt – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Moderator: Alexander Vlahos, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Navigating the Funding and Visibility Landscape in Women’s Health
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Neuroinflammation
    Moderator: Timothy O'Shea – Boston University
    Moderator: Tao Sun
    Moderator: Juhi Samal, PhD (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Neural Engineering
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Organ-on-Chip for Regenerative Medicine
    Keynote Speaker: Dan Dongeun Huh – NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA., Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA., Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Moderator: Shang Song, Ph.D. – University of Arizona
    Moderator: Kunal Mitra, PhD – Florida Institute of Technology
    Tissue Engineering
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Systems immunology
    Moderator: Aaron Meyer – University of California, Los Angeles
    Moderator: Sepideh Dolatshahi – University of Virginia
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Student Chapter and High School Poster Competition Award Ceremony
  • 4:30 PM – 5:10 PM PDT
    Plenary Session - Diversity Award Lecture & BMES New Fellows Presentation
  • 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM PDT
    Fellows - Champagne Toast and Photo (Invitation Only)
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
    Cornell University Alumni Event
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
    Networking Reception - ABET Program Evaluators Representing BMES (Invitation Only)
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
    Special Event- Industry Mixer (Ticketed Event)
  • 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Florida International University Reception
  • 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Council of Chairs Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Boston University Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Clemson University Dept of Bioengineering Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Engineering World Health Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    University of Maryland Fischell Department of Bioengineering Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    University of Michigan Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    University of Rochester
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    University of Washington Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Vanderbilt University Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    VT/WF School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences 630 - 930 pm
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Cornell University Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Johns Hopkins University Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Northwestern/Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE)
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Purdue University Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Special Events - Hosted University Receptions
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Tufts University Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    UC Systemwide Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    University of Arizona Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    University of Florida Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    University of Pittsburgh Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    University of Texas at Austin Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    USC Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Wallace Coulter Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Washington University in St. Louis Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Yale University Reception
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Duke University Reception
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
    Ohio State University Reception
  • Friday, October 13, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Registration Badge Pickup
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Biomedical Engineering Education Editorial Board Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Student Affairs Committee Meeting
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    3D Bioprinting and Patterning of Tissues
    Keynote Speaker: Ibrahim Ozbolat, PhD – Penn State
    Moderator: Vinay V. Abhyankar – Rochester Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Kunal Mitra, PhD – Florida Institute of Technology
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Beyond Responsible Conduct of Research to Discipline-Specific Training: Evaluating Insights from Faculty Experiences with Ethics in Biomedical Engineering Research
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Bioengineering cellular models to study physiology
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Mehdi Nikkhah – Arizona State University
    Moderator: Erika L. Cyphert, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cornell University/University of California San Francisco
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Biomechanics of Rehabilitation/Injury 1
    Moderator: Ken Fischer
    Moderator: Jenny Puetzer (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Biomechanics
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    BME Latin America
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Cancer Immunoengineering, Immunomodulation and Immunotherapy I
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Marian Ackun-Farmmer, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland/Georgia Institute of Technology
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Cardiovascular Regeneration and Stem Cells
    Keynote Speaker: Anahita Mojiri, PhD – Houston Methodist Research Institute
    Moderator: Wuqiang Zhu
    Moderator: Lakeshia J. Taite – University of Virginia
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Computational and Multiscale Modeling in Biomechanics
    Moderator: Reza Avaz
    Moderator: Pim Ooman
    Biomechanics
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Controlling intracellular trafficking to modulate cellular responses
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Gregory Hudalla – University of Florida
    Moderator: Felipe Quiroz – Emory University and Georgia Tech
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Engineered vascularization: Angiogenesis, vasculogenesis and anastomosis
    Moderator: Daniel Alge, PhD – Texas A&M University
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Exploring Biomaterials for Enhanced Drug Delivery: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Kevin J. McHugh, PhD (he/him/his) – Rice University
    Moderator: Joscelyn Mejias, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Biomaterials
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Gastrointestinal Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering
    Moderator: Michael Blatchley, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Moderator: Erika L. Cyphert, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cornell University/University of California San Francisco
    Keynote Speaker: Hyun Jung Kim – Cleveland Clinic
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Genetic tools
    Track Chair: Jiahe Li
    Track Chair: Ana M. Porras, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Moderator: Himani Sharma – University of Notre Dame
    Moderator: Owen McCarty – Oregon Health and Science University
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Global Health Technologies I
    Track Chair: Eduardo Reategui
    Track Chair: Gulden Camci-Unal (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Moderator: Gulden Camci-Unal (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Moderator: Eduardo Reátegui – The Ohio State university
    Global Health Technologies
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Hepatic Tissue Engineering I
    Moderator: Chao Ma, PhD (he/him/his) – New York University Tandon School of Engineering
    Moderator: Donny Hanjaya-Putra, PhD (he/him/his) – Univeristy of Notre Dame
    Keynote Speaker: Linda Griffith, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Imaging Cells, Molecules, Genomes, Tissues and Organs
    Moderator: Taimoor H. Qazi – Purdue University
    Moderator: Catherine E. Majors, PhD (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Imaging Strategies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Erica Pratt, PhD (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Moderator: Lih Feng Cheow, PhD (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Inclusive Mentoring - Bringing Out Everyone’s Best in Mentoring Relationships
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Industry Panel
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Innovations in Immunomodulatory Biomaterials: Enhancing Regeneration, Targeting Diseases, and Reprogramming Immune Responses
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Grace G. Bushnell, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Moderator: Gregory Hudalla – University of Florida
    Biomaterials
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Mechanobiology and Biomechanics in Women's Health
    Moderator: Raffaella De Vita – Virginia Tech
    Moderator: Sara Arena
    Women's Health
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Novel methods for systems biology
    Moderator: Jennifer Wilson – University of California Los Angeles
    Moderator: Ashlee N. Ford Versypt – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Moderator: Aaron Meyer – University of California, Los Angeles
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Optical, Spectroscopy and Microscopy I

    Moderator: Isha Mutreja, PhD – University of Minnesota

    Moderator: Beu Primavera Oropeza

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Planning the Future of Advanced Biomanufacturing SIG
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Point of Care Devices and Biosensors - Session 3
    Moderator: Yuliang Xie – Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa
    Moderator: shengjie zhai – University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Scientific Careers Beyond Academia
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Systems Immunology
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Track Chair: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Track Chair: Kathryn Miller-Jensen – Yale University
    Moderator: Hao Yuan Kueh, PhD – Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Moderator: Sepideh Dolatshahi, PhD – University of Virgina, Charlottesville
    Immunoengineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    The Role of Licensure and Certifications for Practicing Biomedical Engineers
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Transforming BME Training to Ensure Equity and Justice I
    Track Chair: Stacey Finley (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Track Chair: Kelly Stevens – University of Washington
    Track Chair: Brendan A.C. Harley – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Moderator: Santiago Correa, PhD – Columbia University
    Moderator: Jason Chang Marvin – Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
    Social Transformation
  • 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
    Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition 
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 PM PDT
    Advances in Biomaterials Integration with Chips
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Ross A. Marklein (he/him/his) – University of Georgia
    Moderator: Bin Duan, PhD – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Biomaterials
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
    Learn how you can advance your future in medical device innovation and healthcare design with Johns Hopkins University’s master’s program in bioengineering innovation and design
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
    Education Committee Meeting
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
    Posters - Poster Session C with Refreshment Break
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
    Plenary Session - NIH/NIBIB Lecture &  NIBIB Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Awards presentation 
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
    Lunch on your own
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
    Special Events - Gender Equity in BME Luncheon  (ticket purchase required)
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Plenary Session - Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation Lecture & Athanasiou Medal
  • 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    A glimpse into the Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory
  • 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Advances in Biomaterials and Bioinks: Innovations in 3D Bioprinting
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Moderator: Brian Meckes, PhD – University of North Texas
    Moderator: Chia-Wen Chang, PhD – Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Biomaterials
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Advances in experimental and computational cellular and molecular bioengineering
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Alexander Buffone, Jr., PhD (he/him/his) – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Alison Vander Roest – University of Michigan
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Biomechanics of Engineered Tissues
    Moderator: Taimoor H. Qazi – Purdue University
    Moderator: Ali Salifu
    Keynote Speaker: Warren Grayson – Johns Hopkins University
    Tissue Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Biomechanics of Rehabilitation/Injury 2
    Moderator: Anita Singh
    Moderator: Joseph Towles, PhD (he/him/his) – Swarthmore College
    Biomechanics
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Cancer Immunoengineering, Immunomodulation and Immunotherapy II
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Kolade Adebowale, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Moderator: Natasha Sheybani
    Cancer Technologies
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
    Moderator: Jun Liao – University of Texas at Arlington
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Cartilage II, Tendon, Ligament
    Moderator: Jason Chang Marvin – Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
    Moderator: Brian Diekman, PhD – Joint Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Design Project Presentations for DEBUT Challenge (NIBIB/VentureWell)
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Engineered Cancer Models for In Vitro Studies I
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Ian Wong – Brown University
    Moderator: Grace G. Bushnell, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Cancer Technologies
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    High Throughput/Scalable Production
    Moderator: Feng Guo, PhD (he/him/his) – Indiana University Bloomington
    Biomanufacturing
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Imaging Systems, Techniques, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
    Moderator: Kennita Johnson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NC State
    Moderator: Kunal Mitra, PhD – Florida Institute of Technology
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    In Pursuit of Breakthroughs in Cancer Research: Integrating Engineering and Physical Sciences in Oncology
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Inflammation and Wound Healing
    Moderator: Ana I. Salazar-Puerta, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Gregory Hudalla – University of Florida
    Drug Delivery
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Learning Experiences
    Moderator: Anne-Marie Ginn-Hedman, PhD – Texas A&M University Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Moderator: Sara Arena
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Making Labs More Inclusive and Accessible for Researchers with Disabilities
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Matrix Mechanics in Tissue Engineering
    Moderator: Huaxiao Yang – University of North Texas
    Moderator: Lakeshia Tate
    Biomechanics
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Micro/Nano Technologies for Medicine and Biology
    Moderator: Amber Doiron
    Moderator: Sangmoo Jeong
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Molecular tools and approaches to guide cellular responses
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Madeleine Oudin – Tufts University
    Moderator: Nicholas Lamson, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
    Keynote Speaker: Kent Leach – Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, Davis
    Moderator: Jennifer Robinson, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Moderator: John Martin – University of Cincinnati
    Tissue Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Navigating Med School Tracks
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Navigating the Ethical Landscape: Challenges and Perspectives for International Biomedical Engineers in the US and How We Can All Help
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Neuromodulation: Mechanisms and Emerging Technologies
    Moderator: Omid Yaghmazadeh, PhD (he/him/his) – New York University School of Medicine
    Moderator: Rebecca A. Frederick, PhD – University of Oregon
    Neural Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Nurturing Nature's Wisdom: Exploring Natural and Bioinspired Biomaterials
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Mykel D. Green, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas, Austin
    Moderator: Alisa Isaac – UTSA
    Biomaterials
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Omics methods, modeling, and analysis
    Moderator: John Hickey, PhD – Duke University
    Moderator: Ahmet F. Coskun – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Optical, Spectroscopy and Microscopy II
    Track Chair: Karl Lewis
    Track Chair: Ria Mazumder, PhD (she/her/hers) – Widener University
    Moderator: Renita Horton
    Moderator: Erika L. Cyphert, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cornell University/University of California San Francisco
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Point of Care Devices and Biosensors - Session 2
    Moderator: Thomas Roussel
    Moderator: Binh Tran
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Poster Rapid Fire 2
    Moderator: Moriah Katt – West Virginia University
    Moderator: Jessica Larsen (she/her/hers) – Clemson University
    Moderator: XiaoYue Yang, PhD – University of Kentucky
    Drug Delivery
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Q&A With Chapter Leaders, Make Your Chapter Thrive
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    The Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Part 1
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Therapeutics
    Moderator: Ching-An Peng, n/a – University of Idaho
    Moderator: Jiayu Liao – University of California, Riverside
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Transforming BME Training to Ensure Equity and Justice II
    Track Chair: Stacey Finley (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Track Chair: Kelly Stevens – University of Washington
    Track Chair: Brendan A.C. Harley – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Moderator: Aidan E. Gilchrist (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
    Moderator: Ayokunle Olanrewaju – University of Washington
    Social Transformation
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
    Posters - Poster Session D 
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Advances in Immune Engineering for Biomedical Applications: Manipulating Macrophage Responses, T-Cell Interactions, and Tumor Microenvironment
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Marian Ackun-Farmmer, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland/Georgia Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Carolyn Schutt Ibsen, Ph.D. – Oregon Health & Science University
    Biomaterials
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Applications in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Guohao Dai, Fellow, AHA AIMBE (he/him/his) – Northeastern University
    Moderator: Jamie Spangler, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Building Bioengineers for Advocacy, Public Trust, and Regulation
    Moderator: Stacey Finley (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Moderator: Kelly Stevens – University of Washington
    Moderator: Brendan A.C. Harley – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Keynote Speaker: Dr. Dawn Beraud
    Social Transformation
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Cellular Immunoengineering
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Track Chair: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Track Chair: Kathryn Miller-Jensen – Yale University
    Moderator: Michelle Teplensky, PhD (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Moderator: Santiago Correa, PhD – Columbia University
    Immunoengineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Current Topics in BME/BioE ABET Accreditation
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Developmental Biology and Morphogenesis of Engineered Tissues
    Moderator: Tracy Hookway – SUNY Binghamton
    Moderator: Vasudha Srivastava, PhD – University of California San Francisco
    Keynote Speaker: Matthew Kutys, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California, San Francisco
    Tissue Engineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Disc, Tendon, Ligament
    Moderator: Jennifer Nichols – University of Florida
    Moderator: Robin Queen – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Emerging theme: Lymphatics in cardiovascular disease
    Keynote Speaker: J. Brandon Dixon, Ph.D – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Abhishek Jain, PhD – Texas A&M University
    Moderator: Esak Lee, PhD – Cornell University
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Engineered Cancer Models for In Vitro Studies II
    Track Chair: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Track Chair: Jessica Winter – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Mai Ngo, PhD (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Moderator: David T. Corr, PhD (he/him/his) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Cancer Technologies
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Engineered Immune Models
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Track Chair: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Track Chair: Kathryn Miller-Jensen – Yale University
    Moderator: Kolade Adebowale, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Moderator: Abhinav Acharya
    Immunoengineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Engineering Neural Interfaces
    Moderator: Vasileios Christopoulos, Dr. (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside
    Moderator: Brent Winslow
    Neural Engineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Experiential learning and Problem solving
    Moderator: Charles Peak
    Moderator: James Furmato
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Fostering Accessible and Inclusive Research Environments Within Academia to Recruit, Support, And Retain Marginalized And Minoritized Communities
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Graduate School Panel
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Immune Regulation and Tolerance
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Track Chair: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Track Chair: Kathryn Miller-Jensen – Yale University
    Moderator: Daniel Abebayehu
    Moderator: Thomas A. Werfel – University of Mississippi
    Immunoengineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Immunoengineering cellular responses
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Michael J. Mitchell – University of Pennsylvania
    Moderator: Marian Ackun-Farmmer, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland/Georgia Institute of Technology
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Lightning Talks in Neural Engineering
    Moderator: Huiliang Wang, PhD – Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
    Moderator: Aysegul Gunduz
    Moderator: Rick Liao
    Neural Engineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Applications
    Moderator: Lik Chuan Lee – Michigan State University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Mechanics of the Respiratory System
    Moderator: Patrick Link, PhD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Xi (Charlie) Ren
    Biomechanics
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Mechanobiology of Stem Cell Engineering
    Moderator: Soham Ghosh, PhD (he/him/his) – Colorado State University
    Moderator: Beu P. Oropeza, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Biomechanics
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Micro/Nano Technologies in Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering
    Moderator: Natalia Higuita-Castro, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Huaxiao Yang – University of North Texas
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Molecular engineering of cellular responses
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Isaac Hilton, PhD – Rice University
    Moderator: Taimoor H. Qazi – Purdue University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Nano and Micro Technologies for Molecular Analysis
    Moderator: Anwesha Sarkar – Iowa State University
    Moderator: shengjie zhai – University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Physics-informed modeling of living systems
    Moderator: Reza Avaz
    Moderator: Ashlee N. Ford Versypt – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Regenerative Medicine and Biomechanics
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Dany Munoz Pinto
    Moderator: Nehal Ibrahim Abu-Lail, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Biomaterials
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Screening tools for therapeutics
    Moderator: Isha Mutreja, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Moderator: Wilson Poon – University of Texas at El Paso
    Drug Delivery
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    The Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Part 2
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
    Uterine Pathologies
    Moderator: Stacey C. Schutte, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Cincinnati
    Moderator: Adrienne K. Scott, n/a – University of Colorado Boulder
    Women's Health
  • 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
    Special Event - BMES Reception 
  • Saturday, October 14, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
    Registration Badge Pickup
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Bioinspiried/Biomimetic Micro-Nanosystems for Biomedicine
    Moderator: Siwei Zhao – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Cancer Applications in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Rebecca Scott, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Oklahoma
    Moderator: Madeleine Oudin – Tufts University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Drug Delivery Systems for Immunomodulation
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Track Chair: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Track Chair: Kathryn Miller-Jensen – Yale University
    Moderator: Scott Wilson, n/a – Johns Hopkins University
    Moderator: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Immunoengineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Engineering approaches for the assessment of thrombosis & hemostasis
    Moderator: Keefe Manning, PhD – The Pennsylvania State University
    Moderator: Valerie Tutwiler – Rutgers-State University of New Jersey
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Engineering the Stem Cell Microenvironment
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Kolade Adebowale, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Moderator: Moriah Katt – West Virginia University
    Biomaterials
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Hepatic Tissue Engineering II
    Moderator: Alexander Buffone, Jr., PhD (he/him/his) – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Hae Lin Jang
    Keynote Speaker: Quinton Smith, PhD – University of California, Irvine
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Hitchhiking on and targeting cells
    Moderator: Simone A. Douglas-Green, PhD (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Anthony McGoron
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Innovations in Bioresorbable Scaffolds and Smart Implants: Advances in Additive Manufacturing
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Sophia Orbach
    Moderator: Christopher Contag, PhD – The Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering - Michigan State University
    Biomaterials
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Innovations in Nano and Micro Biosensing and Bioanalysis
    Moderator: Elain Fu – Oregon State University
    Moderator: Leopold Green – Purdue University
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Microfluidic Engineering for Biomedical Applications
    Moderator: Isha Mutreja, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Molecular Mechanobiology
    Moderator: Jian Zhang, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
    Moderator: Deborah Leckband, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Biomechanics
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Neuro-Therapeutics and Neuro-Regenerative Medicine
    Keynote Speaker: Sarah Stabenfeldt, PhD (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Moderator: Gabriela Romero – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Moderator: Eleana Manousiouthakis, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Neural Engineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Protein engineering and nanotechnology applications in cellular and molecular bioengineering
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Kevin J. McHugh, PhD (he/him/his) – Rice University
    Moderator: Elizabeth Proctor (she/her/hers) – Penn State University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    Wearable and Interventional Devices - Session 1
    Moderator: Woon-hong Yeo – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Maral Mousavi (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
    Posters - Poster Session E
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
    Plenary Session - Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award Lecture, and Mid-Career Award & Presentation of BMES Journal Awards
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Lunch on your own
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Biomaterial Scaffolds: From Neurovascular Models to Dental Pulp Regeneration
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Eleana Manousiouthakis, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Moderator: Timothy O'Shea – Boston University
    Biomaterials
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Global Health Technologies II
    Track Chair: Gulden Camci-Unal (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Track Chair: Eduardo Reategui
    Moderator: Eduardo Reátegui – The Ohio State university
    Moderator: Gulden Camci-Unal (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Global Health Technologies
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Innovations in cardiovascular biosensors and medical devices
    Moderator: Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, PhD – University of North Dakota
    Moderator: Lichao Tang (he/him/his) – Northwestern University
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Nature's Inspiration: Exploring Natural and Bioinspired Biomaterials
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Donny Hanjaya-Putra, PhD (he/him/his) – Univeristy of Notre Dame
    Moderator: Ali Salifu
    Biomaterials
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Neural and Neurovascular Tissue Engineering
    Moderator: Timothy O'Shea – Boston University
    Moderator: Hae Lin Jang
    Keynote Speaker: Taher HOSSAIN Saif (he/him/his) – Univ of illinois urbana Champaign
    Tissue Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Neuromuscular and Brain Biomechanics
    Moderator: Walt Baxter
    Biomechanics
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Peptide, Protein and Vaccine Delivery
    Track Chair: Daniel Gallego-Perez, PhD (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Ana I. Salazar-Puerta, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Tatiana Z. Cuellar-Gaviria, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Drug Delivery
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Representation in BME Research and Data for Health Equity II
    Track Chair: Stacey Finley (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Track Chair: Kelly Stevens – University of Washington
    Track Chair: Brendan A.C. Harley – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Moderator: Olivia Lanier, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas, Austin
    Social Transformation
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Sports/Rehab Biomechanics
    Moderator: Robin Queen – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Moderator: Changjin Huang – Nanyang Technological University
    Biomechanics
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Translational Studies in Neural Engineering
    Moderator: Joon Shim
    Moderator: Lauren Savannah Dewberry, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Neural Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Translational systems modeling
    Moderator: Aaron Meyer – University of California, Los Angeles
    Moderator: Ashlee N. Ford Versypt – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Wearable and Interventional Devices - Session 2
    Moderator: Joel Stitzel – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Moderator: Huiliang Wang, PhD – Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Breaking Barriers: Biomaterials Revolutionizing Drug Delivery Strategies
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Jennifer Robinson, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Moderator: Richard D’Arcy
    Biomaterials
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Concurrent Platform Sessions and Special Sessions Track (90 minutes)
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Design and engineering of cellular and molecular bio therapeutics
    Track Chair: Omid Veiseh – Rice University Department of Bioengineering
    Moderator: Sepideh Dolatshahi, PhD – University of Virgina, Charlottesville
    Moderator: Caroline Jones (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas at Dallas
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Engineered Vaccines
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Track Chair: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
    Track Chair: Kathryn Miller-Jensen – Yale University
    Moderator: Aaron Esser-Kahn – University of Chicago
    Immunoengineering
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Nano and Micro Biosensing Technologies for Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring
    Moderator: Caroline Jones (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas at Dallas
    Moderator: Huiliang Wang, PhD – Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    New Tools and Applications in Biomechanics
    Moderator: Jun Liao – University of Texas at Arlington
    Moderator: Karen May Newman
    Biomechanics
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Other/Non-Specified Biomaterials
    Track Chair: Marissa Wechsler – The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Track Chair: Monica Hinds, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Track Chair: Erika Moore – University of Maryland
    Track Chair: Brian Aguado – University of California, San Diego
    Moderator: Bethany Almeida, PhD (she/her/hers) – Clarkson University
    Moderator: Isha Mutreja, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Biomaterials
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Point of Care Devices and Biosensors - Session 1
    Moderator: Seunghyun Kim – Baylor University
    Moderator: Catherine E. Majors, PhD (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Traumatic Brain or Spinal Cord Injury
    Keynote Speaker: Brittany Coats, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Moderator: Jacob McPherson
    Moderator: Olga Liaudanskaya, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Cincinnati
    Moderator: Mark Begonia – Virginia Tech Helmet Lab
    Neural Engineering