Program
February 25, 2013
| 8:00 AM | Welcome and Introduction Rafael Bras, PhD - Georgia Tech & Bob Nerem, PhD - Georgia Tech |
| 8:20 PM | Gang Bao, PhD - Georgia Tech Biomolecular Engineering and Nanomedicine: Huge Gains from Tiny Machines |
Session I - Biological and Medical Imaging
Session Chair: Raphael Lee, MD, ScD
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9:00 AM
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Norbert Pelc, ScD - Stanford University
Recent and Future Directions in CT Imaging |
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9:40 AM
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Matthew O’Donnell, PhD - University of Washington
Is Molecular Imaging REQUIRED to Translate the Promise of Molecular Medicine into a Clinical Reality? |
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10:20 AM
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Break
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10:50 AM
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Katherine Ferrara, PhD - University of California, Davis
Image-guided Delivery of Therapeutics: Engineering Design and Optimization |
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11:30 AM
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Bob Guldberg, PhD - Georgia Tech
Interplay of Biology and Mechanics during Vascularized Tissue Regeneration |
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11:50 PM
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Panel Discussion
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12:20 PM
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Lunch and Poster Session - View Young Investigator Posters
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Session II - Biomaterials and Application
Session Chair: Larry McIntire, PhD
| 2:00 PM | David A. Tirrell, PhD - California Institute of Technology Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Science and Engineering |
| 2:40 PM | Jennifer West, PhD - Duke University Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Nanotechnology |
| 3:20 PM | Andres Garcia, PhD - Georgia Tech Biomaterials for Tissue Repair |
| 3:40 PM | Break |
| 4:10 PM | Todd McDevitt, PhD - Georgia Tech Engineering Stem Cell Microenvironments Inside-Out & Outside In |
| 4:30 PM | Antonios Mikos, PhD - Rice University Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering |
| 5:10 PM | Ravi Bellamkonda, PhD - Georgia Tech Do Immuno-modulatory Biomaterials Represent the Future of Regenerative Medicine? |
| 5:30 PM | Panel Discussion |
| 6:30 PM | Speakers Dinner |
February 26, 2013
Session III - Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
Session Chair: Mahendra Rao, PhD
| 8:00 AM | Geert Schmid-Schoenbein, PhD - University of California, San Diego Development of Preventive Strategies in Human Diseases: Grand Bioengineering Opportunities |
| 8:40 AM | Subra Suresh, ScD - National Science Foundation Physical Properties of the Cell and Human Diseases |
| 9:20 AM | Ross Ethier, PhD - Georgia Tech The Role of Mechanobiology and Biomechanics in Ocular Disease |
| 9:40 AM | Break |
| 10:10 AM | Sheldon Weinbaum, PhD - The City College of New York Micromechanical and Computational Modeling of Forces and Stresses at the Cellular Level |
| 10:50 AM | Cheng Zhu, PhD - Georgia Tech Molecular Biomechanics: From Single-Cell to Single-Molecule Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction |
| 11:10 AM | Doug Lauffenburger , PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Systems Biology for Discovery and Design |
| 11:50 AM |
Working Lunch |
| 12:20 AM | Rod Pettigrew, MD, PhD - National Institutes of Health Biomedical Imaging and Precision Medicine |
Session III (cont.) - Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
Session Chair: Bob Nerem, PhD
| 1:00 PM | Jeffery Hubbell, PhD - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Materials and Molecular Engineering for Modulating Immunity |
| 1:40 PM | Rashid Bashir,PhD - University of Illinois, Creating Living Machines: Reaping the Benefits of the New Biology |
| 2:20 PM | Panel Discussion |
| 3:00 PM | Adjourn |
