J. Lawrence Wilson Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University, United States
Michael R. King is the J. Lawrence Wilson Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Previously he was the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor at Cornell University, and before that started his faculty career at the University of Rochester. He earned his B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Rochester and completed a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, followed by postdoctoral training in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written textbooks on the subjects of statistical methods and microchannel flows, and has received several awards including the NSF CAREER Award, Outstanding Research Awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Clinical Chemistry, and was a James D. Watson Investigator of New York State. King is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and served as founding Vice President of the International Society of Bionic Engineering. Since 2013 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, an official journal of the BMES. He previously served as Chair of the BME Council of Chairs, and is currently the Chair-Elect of the AIMBE College of Fellows.
Leveraging T cell mechanotransduction for enhanced and sustained ex vivo activation
Thursday, October 12, 2023
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
Thursday, October 12, 2023
1:40 PM – 1:45 PM PDT
Tunable Superhydrophobic Microwell Array Devices for High-Throughput Culture of 3D Cancer Models
Friday, October 13, 2023
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PDT
Chemical Activation of Piezo1 to Enhance TRAIL-induced Apoptosis in Glioblastoma Cells
Friday, October 13, 2023
2:10 PM – 2:15 PM PDT
In Situ Therapeutic Engineering of the Immune Cell Surface
Saturday, October 14, 2023
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT
Ultrasound Mechanotherapy to Non-invasively Sensitize Prostate Tumors to TRAIL-Mediated Apoptosis
Saturday, October 14, 2023
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PDT