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Wednesday, Oct 23rd
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
NIH/NIBIB Scientific Review – Update on Changes to NIH Review and Mock Review Panel I
Location: Room 345
Presenting Author: Manana Sukhareva, PhD – NIBIB/ NIH
Panelist: Tianhong Wang
Panelist: Debanjan Goswami
Panelist: Alexander Komendantov
Panelist: Dave Gutekunst
Panelist: Jessica Falcone
Panelist: Nichole Daringer
Panelist: Robert Barry
Special Sessions
Wednesday, Oct 23rd
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Council of Chairs Dinner Meeting (Invitation only)
Location: Room 310
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EST
BMES National Meetings Committee & 2025 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Meeting (By Invitation Only)
Location: Room 304
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
NCI Programs to develop and translate technologies to the clinic for cancer prevention
Location: Room 347
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 8:50 AM EST
NCI Drives Technical Innovation for Cancer Research
Location: Room 347
Presenting Author: Kelly Crotty, PhD – NCI
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM EST
Getting off on the right foot: advice panel for new and future faculty
Location: Room 349
Presenting Author: Caymen Novak, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan Dearborn
Panelist: Colleen Crouch, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Tennessee Knoxville
Panelist: Claudia Loebel, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan/Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan
Panelist: Lesley W. Chow, PhD (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
Panelist: Bethany Almeida, PhD (she/her/hers) – Clarkson University
Panelist: Natalia Higuita-Castro, Dr. (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM EST
Tapping into the Wisdom of the Crowd: Participating in NIH Prize Competitions for MedTech Development
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Taylor Gilliland, PhD (he/him/his) – NIBIB / NIH
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EST
Lessons Learned from the BME Summit
Location: Room 348
Presenting Author: Jennifer Amos, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Presenting Author: Bryan Pfister – New Jersey Institute of Technology
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EST
National Institutes of Health: Improving the Review of Research Project Grant and Fellowship Applications
Location: Room 345
Presenting Author: Raymond Jacobson – NIH Center for Scientific Review
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST
Panel Discussion: Women's Health and Biomedical Engineering
Location: Room 310
Presenting Author: Michelle L. Oyen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis
Co-Author: Kristin M. Myers, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
Co-Author: Shreya A. Raghavan, MSE, PhD (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University
Co-Author: Erika Moore, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
Co-Author: Kristin S. Miller, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Dallas; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Epigenetic engineering of cells
Location: Room 350
Moderator: Timothy Downing – University of California, Irvine
Moderator: Song Li, PhD (he/him/his) – UCLA
Presenting Author: G.V. Shivashankar, PhD – ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Presenting Author: Vadim Backman, PhD – Northwestern University BME
Presenting Author: Ryan Stowers, PhD – University of California, Santa Barbara
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
8:50 AM – 9:10 AM EST
Colon-targeted Drug Delivery Can Improve the Success Rate of Colon Cancer Prevention
Location: Room 347
Presenting Author: Vignesh Gunasekharan, PhD – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Co-Author: Erin Lavik – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Last Author: Shizuko Sei, MD – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM EST
The NCI PREVENT Drug Development Program for Clinical Translation
Location: Room 347
Co-Author: Vignesh Gunasekharan, PhD – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Presenting Author: John L. Clifford, PhD (he/him/his) – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Co-Author: Daniel Boring – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Co-Author: Brian Cholewa, PhD – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Co-Author: Mark S. Miller, PhD (he/him/his) – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Last Author: Shizuko Sei, MD – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Co-Author: Ancy Nalli – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Co-Author: Anda Vlad – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM EST
SBIR/STTR: NIH Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Support for Biotech Startups and Small Businesses
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Todd Merchak – NIBIB / NIH
Presenting Author: Kari Ashmont, PhD (she/her/hers) – NIBIB / NIH
Panelist: Michael Wolfson, PhD – NIBIB/NIH
Panelist: Stephanie Fertig, MBA – Small Business Education & Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) Office/NIH
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Synergies between Research and Teaching: Exploring how Engineering Education Research Can Advance Your Career
Location: Room 349
Presenting Author: Caymen Novak, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan Dearborn
Presenting Author: Cassandra Jamison, PhD – Rowan University
Panelist: Yanfen Li, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
Panelist: Karin J. Jensen, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
Panelist: William H. Guilford, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
9:30 AM – 9:50 AM EST
Early Phase Cancer Prevention Trials at the NCI – Opportunities for Collaboration
Location: Room 347
Presenting Author: Eva Szabo, MD (she/her/hers) – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
9:50 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Open Session
Location: Room 347
Panelist: Erin Lavik – Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST
A Dialogue with the Council of Chairs (by invitation only)
Location: Room 348
Co-Author: Adam Engler, PhD (he/him/his) – UC San Diego
Moderator: John P. Fisher, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
Co-Author: Juergen Hahn, PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Co-Author: Alyssa Panitch, PhD (she/her/hers) – Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Co-Author: Shayn M. Peirce, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia
Co-Author: Anand Ramamurthi, MS, PhD (he/him/his) – Lehigh University
Co-Author: Lori Setton – Washington University in St. Louis
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
BME Grand Challenges: Defining the Future of the Field
Location: Ballroom I - IV
Moderator: Michael I. Miller, PhD – Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering
Moderator: Shankar Subramaniam
Panelist: Alexis Battle
Panelist: Frederick Epstein
Panelist: Jordan J. Green, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
Panelist: X. Edward Guo, MS, PhD – Columbia University
Panelist: Brenda M. Ogle – University of Minnesota
Panelist: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD – Columbia University
Panelist: Anqi Zhang
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Finding a biomedical engineering postdoctoral training position in the NIH Intramural Research Program
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Manu O. Platt, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health / NIBIB
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EST
Education Committee Meeting
Location: Room 304
Presenting Author: Jennifer Amos, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EST
Student Affairs Subcommittee Meeting
Location: Room 305
Presenting Author: Ian Schneider, PhD – Iowa State University
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
Alpha Eta Mu Beta: Mentoring for INnovative Design Solutions (MINDS) Scholars Program Workshop
Location: Room 303
Presenting Author: Walter Murfee – University of Florida
Presenting Author: Alicia Fernandez-Fernandez, DPT, PhD – Nova Southeastern University
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
Athanasiou Student Award Session
Location: Room 309
Presenting Author: Stefan Duma, PhD – ABME
Presenting Author: Nicholas Cecchi, MS – Stanford University
Presenting Author: Carly Smith
Presenting Author: Landon Lempke
Presenting Author: Nicole E.-P Stark, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech Helmet Lab
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
Empower and Connect: Speed Networking Event by BlackinBME
Location: Room 310
Presenting Author: Mykel D. Green, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Texas at Austin
Moderator: Erika Moore, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
Co-Author: Catherine F. Whittington – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
NIH / NIBIB Funding Panel
Location: Room 345
Presenting Author: Dave Gutekunst, MS, PhD – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Presenting Author: Tina Gatlin, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Panelist: Muyinatu Bell
Panelist: Aijun Wang, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
Panelist: Natasha D. Sheybani, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
YOU GOT THE (FACULTY) JOB! Now What?
Location: Room 349
Moderator: Katherine Hixon, PhD (she/her/hers) – Dartmouth College
Moderator: Santiago Correa, PhD (he/him/his) – Columbia University
Presenting Author: Katharina Maisel, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
Panelist: Gloria Kim, PhD – Mayo Clinic
Panelist: Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, PhD – Lehigh University Bioengineering
Panelist: Jina Ko, PhD – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Bioengineering, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Panelist: Adam Gormley, PhD (he/him/his) – Rutgers University
Panelist: Kelly Stevens – University of Washington
Panelist: Leopold Green – Purdue University
Panelist: Riccardo Gottardi, PhD – The University of Pennsylvania
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM EST
Collaborating with NIH Intramural Research Program Investigators – Tips and Opportunities
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Manu O. Platt, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health / NIBIB
Panelist: Kaitlyn Sadtler – NIH/NIBIB
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM EST
Federal Agencies and Biomedical Engineering Research Careers (NIH, FDA, NASA, NIST, and NSF)
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Manu O. Platt, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health / NIBIB
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM EST
Alpha Eta Mu Beta: Annual Meeting
Location: Room 303
Presenting Author: Walter Murfee – University of Florida
Presenting Author: Alicia Fernandez-Fernandez, DPT, PhD – Nova Southeastern University
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM EST
Best Practices for Interacting with Industry: NDAs, Industry Sponsored Research, Licensing and Beyond.
Location: Room 350
Presenting Author: Gabriel Gruionu, MS, PhD (he/him/his) – Indiana University
Moderator: Gabriel Gruionu, MS, PhD (he/him/his) – Indiana University
Panelist: Youseph Yazdi, PhD, MBA – Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design
Panelist: Christina DeMur – Johns Hokins University
Panelist: Melissa Brown
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
Black Women in Biomedical Engineering
Location: Room 310
Presenting Author: Princess Imoukhuede, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
Primary Investigator: LaShan Hendrix – University of Cincinnati
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
Meet and Greet: Future predoctoral/postdoctoral researchers and NIBIB-funded T32 training programs
Location: Room 345
Presenting Author: Zeynep Erim, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Co-Author: Tina Gatlin, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Co-Author: Dave Gutekunst, MS, PhD – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM EST
Ethics and use of social media amongst student members and professional biomedical engineers
Location: Room 349
Co-Author: Ian Schneider, PhD – Iowa State University
Panelist: Brendan O'Rourke
Presenting Author: Jyothi Menon, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Rhode Island
Co-Author: Ashley Brown – North Carolina State University
Panelist: Daniel Naveed
Panelist: Samyukta Iyer
Panelist: Pun To (Douglas) Yung, PhD (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
Panelist: Mykel Green
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
4:30 PM – 5:15 PM EST
NIH Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC): An artificial intelligence-ready data commons available to researchers to fuel machine intelligence research
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Kris Kandarpa, MD PhD (he/him/his) – NIBIB / NIH
Panelist: Rui Pereira De Sa
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
3:45 PM – 5:45 PM EST
12th US-Korea Biomedical Engineering Workshop
Location: Room 309
Presenting Author: Deok-Ho Kim – Johns Hopkins University
Presenting Author: James Moon, PhD – University of Michigan
Presenting Author: Eun Ji Chung – University of Southern California
Co-Author: Esak Lee, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
Co-Author: Seung-Woo Cho – Yonsei University
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
6:15 PM – 7:00 PM EST
BMES Fellows Champagne Toast (Invitation only)
Location: Room 320
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
6:15 PM – 7:15 PM EST
ABET Committee Reception (By Invitation Only)
Location: Room 305
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
6:15 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Industry Panel (Ticketed Event)
Location: Room 308
Co-Author: Ian Schneider, PhD – Iowa State University
Co-Author: Kyle Jacobs
Panelist: Melissa Mendoza-Seale – Exponent, Inc.
Panelist: Brent Winslow, PhD – Google
Panelist: Wuqiang Zhu, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
Panelist: Walt Baxter, PhD – Medtronic
Panelist: Arlen D. Meyers, MD, MBA – Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SOPE)
Panelist: Geoffrey Roche
Special Sessions
Thursday, Oct 24th
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Industry Mixer - Networking (Ticketed Event)
Location: Room 308
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM EST
NCI/NSF SPARK for material scientists and cancer researchers
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Eric M. Johnson Chavarria, PhD (he/him/his) – NCI - Biophysics, Bioengineering, and Computational Sciences Branch (BBCSB)
Presenting Author: Daniel Savin, PhD (he/him/his) – National Science Foundation
Presenting Author: Germano Iannacchione, PhD (he/him/his) – Division of Materials Research (DMR), Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), NSF
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EST
BIEE Editorial Board Meeting (by invitation only)
Location: Room 305
Moderator: Ann Saterbak, PhD – Duke University
Co-Author: Aileen Huang-Saad, PhD, MBA – Northeastern
Presenting Author: Brian P. Helmke, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
BMES Student Chapter Best Practices and This Year's Winners
Location: Room 309
Presenting Author: Stephanie Cone, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware
Co-Author: Ian Schneider, PhD – Iowa State University
Award Lecturer: Audrey T. Sogata (she/her/hers) – UCLA
Award Lecturer: Neha Muvvala (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
Award Lecturer: Samantha Tovar
Award Lecturer: Farida Safarli
Award Lecturer: Eric Gutierrez-Camacho
Award Lecturer: Megha Agrawal (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Award Lecturer: Justine Corsilia (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
Award Lecturer: Aadi N. Bhensdadia (he/him/his) – Sarasota County Schools
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Master's Program Workshop: Aligning Programs with Student Career Goals
Location: Room 349
Presenting Author: Marissa Gray, PhD (she/her/hers) – Brown University
Co-Author: Lawrence M. Boyd, PhD – Clemson University
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
NIH/NIBIB Scientific Review – Update on Changes to NIH Review and Mock Review Panel II
Location: Room 345
Presenting Author: Manana Sukhareva, PhD – NIBIB/ NIH
Panelist: Tianhong Wang
Panelist: Debanjan Goswami
Panelist: Alexander Komendantov
Panelist: Tina Gatlin, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Panelist: Jessica Falcone
Panelist: Nichole Daringer
Panelist: Tuba Fehr
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
The Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Parts I
Location: Room 303
Presenting Author: Claudia Loebel, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan/Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan
Presenting Author: Meenal Datta, PhD – University of Notre Dame
Presenting Author: Pilar de la Puente, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research / University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Presenting Author: Kaitlin Fogg, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
Presenting Author: Panagiotis Mistriotis, PhD – Auburn University
Presenting Author: Kevin J. McHugh, PhD – Rice University
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Navigating Medical School and Working with Clinicians
Location: Room 310
Co-Author: Ian Schneider, PhD – Iowa State University
Presenting Author: Laura Hansen, PhD – Emory University
Co-Author: David Myers, PhD (he/him/his) – Emory University
Panelist: Arlen D. Meyers, MD, MBA – Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SOPE)
Panelist: Adam Engler, PhD (he/him/his) – UC San Diego
Panelist: Lakyn Mayo (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Francisco
Panelist: Isabella Horton
Panelist: Jenni Van Wyk
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Interdisciplinary programs at NCI to accelerate research in fundamental cancer biology
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Steve Becker, PhD (he/him/his) – NCI Division of Cancer Biology
Co-Author: Roberto Alonso Matilla, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Are you ready to innovate?
Location: Ballroom I - IV
Presenting Author: Arlen D. Meyers, MD, MBA – Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SOPE)
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
BME Resume Guidance and Review
Location: Room 348
Presenting Author: Cassandra Jamison, PhD – Rowan University
Presenting Author: Mary Staehle, PhD (she/her/hers) – Rowan University
Co-Author: David Jamison, PhD (he/him/his) – Villanova University
Co-Author: Zachary A. Dooley, MS (he/him/his) – OrthoFix Medical Inc.
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
DEBUT Challenge Project Presentations (NIBIB/VentureWell)
Location: Room 345
Co-Author: Dave Gutekunst, MS, PhD – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Presenting Author: Bruce Tromberg, PhD – National Institutes of Health
Co-Author: Jianming Li
Co-Author: Rebekah Neal
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
Navigating Ethical Waters: Authorship, Reproducibility, and Publishing in the Era of AI
Location: Room 349
Presenting Author: Lyle Hood, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas at San Antonio
Moderator: Karina Nakayama, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health & Science University
Co-Author: Isha Mutreja, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
Co-Author: Feilim Mac Gabhann, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
Moderator: Jeffrey G. Jacot, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Panelist: Brian P. Helmke, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
Panelist: Anjelyka Fasci (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
Nonclinical Tests: Advanced Engineering Strategies Inspired by the FDA Modernization Act 2.0
Location: Room 347
Primary Investigator: Samantha G. Zambuto, PhD MPHS (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis
Presenting Author: Adrienne Scott, PhD (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St Louis
Presenting Author: Marley Dewey, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California Santa Barbara
Moderator: Aleczandria Tiffany, PhD (she/her/hers) – New York Genome Center
Panelist: Michelle L. Oyen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis
Panelist: Kristin Myers, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
Panelist: Caroline Beyer (she/her/hers) – Springer Nature
Panelist: Kyung Sung, PhD (she/her/hers) – FDA
Moderator: Aidan Gilchrist, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California Davis
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
The Importance of Advocacy in Biomedical Engineering Research
Location: Room 310
Presenting Author: Dawn Beraud, PhD (she/her/hers) – AIMBE
Panelist: Raj R. Rao, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Arkansas
Panelist: Stephanie I. Fraley, PhD (she/her/hers) – UC San Diego
Panelist: Tyrone Porter
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
The Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Parts II
Location: Room 303
Presenting Author: Erika Moore, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
Co-Author: Aakanksha Jha
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST
Fundamentals of Medical Product Regulation for Biomedical Engineers - Perspectives from Academia, Industry, and Regulators
Location: Ballroom I - IV
Presenting Author: Wendy E. Brown, PhD;M.RSc. (she/her/hers) – University of California Irvine (UCI)
Panelist: Aijun Wang, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
Panelist: Alyssa Panitch, PhD (she/her/hers) – Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Panelist: Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
Panelist: Dorn Carranza
Panelist: Kevin Cordero
Special Sessions
Sponsored By
Friday, Oct 25th
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM EST
Bringing a Medical Device to Market: Utilizing Standards
Location: Ballroom I - IV
Presenting Author: David Jamison, PhD (he/him/his) – Villanova University
Presenting Author: Zachary A. Dooley, MS (he/him/his) – OrthoFix Medical Inc.
Panelist: Melissa Mendoza-Seale – Exponent, Inc.
Panelist: Srinidhi Nagaraja
Panelist: Rebekah Neal
Panelist: Sumona Sarkar
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM EST
Engineering Smart Stem Cells for Musculoskeletal Repair through Advanced Synthetic Biology Tools
Location: Room 339
Invited Speaker: Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, PhD – Lehigh University Bioengineering
Special SessionsBioinformatics, Computational, and Systems BiologyBiomedical Engineering Education
Friday, Oct 25th
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM EST
Demystifying graduate school options and application processes
Location: Room 348
Presenting Author: Jennifer Amos, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Presenting Author: Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
Presenting Author: Karina Nakayama, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health & Science University
Panelist: Newton de Faria, PhD – Cornell University
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
NIBIB Funding Opportunities to Enhance Diversity in the Biomedical Engineering Research Workforce
Location: Room 345
Presenting Author: Albert Avila – NIBIB / NIH
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Engineering Innovations for Women’s Health: Networking for Challenges and Opportunities
Location: Room 349
Presenting Author: Kaitlin Fogg, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
Co-Author: Shreya A. Raghavan, MSE, PhD (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University
Co-Author: Pilar de la Puente, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research / University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
High-Speed Neurophotonics: Bridging Voltage Sensing and Kilohertz Imaging
Location: Room 347
Moderator: Liang Gao, PhD – UCLA
Panelist: Xue Han – Boston University
Panelist: Jerry Chen, PhD (he/him/his) – Boston University
Panelist: Georg Jaindl, MSc – MBF Bioscience
Panelist: Samuel Zhou
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
5:15 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Advancing Imaging Standards: NIBIB Initiatives on Development and Dissemination of Imaging Phantoms
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Afrouz Anderson, PhD – NIBIB / NIH
Panelist: William Vogt, PhD – FDA
Panelist: Kathy Nightingdale, PhD – Duke University
Panelist: Ethan LaRochelle, PhD – QUEL Imaging
Panelist: E. Duco Jansen, PhD – Vanderbilt University
Panelist: Prakash Balan, PhD – NSF/ENG
Special Sessions
Friday, Oct 25th
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
FDA: Use and Development of Consensus Standards for Medical Devices
Location: Ballroom I - IV
Presenting Author: Samuel Lum – U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Special Sessions
Saturday, Oct 26th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Engineering Your Entrepreneurial Mindset: Sharing Perspectives from Academic and Industry BME Professionals
Location: Room 349
Presenting Author: Cassandra Jamison, PhD – Rowan University
Presenting Author: Reva E. Johnson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Valparaiso University
Panelist: Zachary A. Dooley, MS (he/him/his) – OrthoFix Medical Inc.
Panelist: Katherine Reuther, Katie Reuther PhD MBA (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
Panelist: Rebecca Rosenberg, MSE – ReBokeh Vision Technologies
Panelist: Sabia Z. Abidi, PhD (she/her/hers) – Rice University
Panelist: Aaron Kyle (he/him/his) – Duke University
Panelist: Walt Baxter, PhD – Medtronic
Special Sessions
Saturday, Oct 26th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Increasing Undergraduate Participation and Leveraging Post-Baccalaureate Positions in Research Settings
Location: Room 350
Co-Author: Srikar Sadhu – University of Texas at Austin
Panelist: Mia K. Markey, PhD (she/they) – The University of Texas at Austin
Panelist: Edward Castillo, PHD – University of Texas at Austin
Panelist: Jorge Cisneros, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Texas at Austin
Panelist: Nathan Feldt – The University of Texas at Austin
Moderator: Sneha Sinha
Presenting Author: Khushi C. Hiremath – The University of Texas at Austin
Co-Author: Sneha Sinha
Special Sessions
Saturday, Oct 26th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Multimodal AI in Biomedical Data Analysis and Disease Diagnosis
Location: Room 303
Panelist: Pingkun Yan, PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Panelist: Ruogu Fang, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
Panelist: William Hsu, PhD – University of California Los Angeles
Panelist: Adam Charles
Special Sessions
Saturday, Oct 26th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Physical Science of Cancer Special Session
Location: Room 347
Panelist: Dennis Discher, PhD – Biophysical Eng'g Labs, University of Pennsylvania
Presenting Author: Lawrence J. Dooling, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ Houston / University of Pennsylvania
Presenting Author: Guilherme Nader, PhD (he/him/his) – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Panelist: Open_Mic_5min_Talks: Show_2-3_slides_on_Session-Topic
Special Sessions
Saturday, Oct 26th
12:30 PM – 1:15 PM EST
Undergrad research opportunities with the NIH Intramural Research Program: summer internship program, biomedical engineering summer internship program, and NIH post-baccalaureate research program
Location: Room 346
Presenting Author: Manu O. Platt, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health / NIBIB
Special Sessions
Saturday, Oct 26th
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Organoid Intelligence (OI): Advancing Biocomputing through Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Location: Room 348
Panelist: Itzy Morales Pantoja, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
Presenting Author: Derosh George, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Panelist: Thomas Hartung
Panelist: Erik C. Johnson, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Panelist: Lomax Boyd
Panelist: Feng Guo, PhD – Indiana University Bloomington
Panelist: Xiao Yang
Special Sessions
Saturday, Oct 26th
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
The Inaugural WACBE-BMES Workshop: Strengthening Global Science Dialogue and Collaboration
Location: Room 303
Presenting Author: X. Edward Guo, MS, PhD – Columbia University
Co-Author: Bingmei Fu, Ph.D (she/her/hers) – City College of New York
Co-Author: Song Li, PhD (he/him/his) – UCLA
Co-Author: Zong-ming Li, PhD – University of Arizona
Co-Author: Bingyun Li, PhD (he/him/his) – West Virginia University School of Medicine
Co-Author: Jian Yang – Westlake University
Special Sessions