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  • Wednesday, Oct 23rd
    5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Plenary - Co-Chairs Annual Meeting Welcome and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Address on "Translational Studies of Engineered Human Tissues."
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Keynote Speaker: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD – Columbia University
    Plenary
  • Thursday, Oct 24th
    11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
    Plenary Session - State of the Society by BMES President Cynthia Reinhart-King & Presentation of the Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award - Kyriacos Athanasiou
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Plenary
  • Thursday, Oct 24th
    11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
    Translation of Biomedical Engineering Advances
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Award Lecturer: Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, MS, MPhil, PhD, D.Sc. (hon) – University of California, Irvine
    Plenary
  • Thursday, Oct 24th
    5:15 PM – 6:15 PM EST
    Plenary Session - Diversity Award Lecture & 2024 New BMES Fellows Announcement
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Plenary
  • Thursday, Oct 24th
    5:15 PM – 6:15 PM EST
    Building a Virtual Community to Support and Celebrate the Success of Latinx Biomedical Engineers
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Award Lecturer: Brian Aguado, PhD – University of California, San Diego
    Award Lecturer: Ana Maria Porras, PhD – University of Florida
    Plenary
  • Friday, Oct 25th
    11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Plenary Session - NIH/NIBIB Lecture and Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Awards
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Presenting Author: Bruce Tromberg, PhD – National Institutes of Health
    Presenting Author: Janine Clayton
    Plenary
    Supported By 
  • Friday, Oct 25th
    11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Solution Strategies for Women’s Health Innovation - Which part are you going to play?
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Award Lecturer: Janine Clayton
    Plenary
  • Friday, Oct 25th
    1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Plenary Session - Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation Lecture & Athanasiou Medal of Excellence in Translational Bioengineering & Lecture
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Plenary
    Supported By 
  • Friday, Oct 25th
    1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Minimally invasive delivery of therapeutics to the heart with biomaterials and devices
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Award Lecturer: Ke Cheng, PhD (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Plenary
  • Friday, Oct 25th
    1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Engineering Materials for Clinical Nerve Repair, and Other Applications Along the Way
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Award Lecturer: Christine E. E. Schmidt, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Plenary
  • Saturday, Oct 26th
    11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
    Plenary Session - Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award Lecture, and Mid-Career Award & Presentation of BMES Journal Awards
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Plenary
  • Saturday, Oct 26th
    11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
    Engineering human organoids, organs, and societies
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Award Lecturer: Kelly Stevens – University of Washington
    Plenary
  • Saturday, Oct 26th
    11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
    Precision protein delivery: Engineering protein-material affinity interactions for tissue repair
    Location: Ballroom I - IV
    Award Lecturer: Marian Hettiaratchi, PhD – University of Oregon
    Plenary