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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, October 23, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
    Exhibitors move-in
  • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST
    BMES Board of Directors Meeting
  • 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM EST
    Registration Badge Pickup
  • 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST
    Industry Tours (Ticketed Event)
    Industry Tours
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    NIH Special Session
  • 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
    Meet the Faculty Candidates Forum
  • 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."

    Keynote Speaker: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD – Columbia University

  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
    Special Event - Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
    Council of Chairs Dinner Meeting (Invitation only)
  • 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
    Health Equity Through Biomedical Innovation
  • 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM EST
    Special Event - LGBTQIA+ in BME & Friends Dessert (Ticket purchase required)
  • Thursday, October 24, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
    Registration Badge Pickup
  • 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    3D Printing in Biomanufacturing
    Session Chair: Cody Crosby, PhD (he/him/his) – Southwestern University
    Session Chair: Kunal Mitra, PhD – Florida Institute of Technology
    Biomanufacturing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Articular Cartilage, Meniscus, and Joints I
    Session Chair: Lawrence Bonassar, PhD – Cornell University
    Session Chair: Hannah M. Zlotnick (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Biomaterials for Musculoskeletal Regenerative Engineering
    Session Chair: Jonathan M. Grasman, PhD (he/him/his) – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Bethany Almeida, PhD (she/her/hers) – Clarkson University
    Biomaterials
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Biosensors
    Session Chair: Changchun Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Connecticut Health Center
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Brain Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Rebecca Willits (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University
    Session Chair: Jonathan Brunger, PhD – Vanderbilt University
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Breast Health
    Session Chair: Needa Brown
    Session Chair: Miosotis Acevedo
    Womens Health
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cancer Immunoengineering, Immunomodulation & Immunotherapy
    Session Chair: Yubin Zhou, PhD, MD (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University
    Session Chair: Daeyong Lee – Virginia Tech
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cardiovascular Regeneration 1
    Session Chair: Kareen LK Coulombe (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    Session Chair: Muhammad Rizwan, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cell mechanics I
    Session Chair: Samhita P. Banavar, PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cellular and Molecular Mechanobiology I
    Session Chair: Soham  Ghosh, PhD (he/him/his) – Colorado State University
    Session Chair: Laura Hansen, PhD – Emory University
    Biomechanics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Circulating Biomarkers: CTCs, Extracellular Vesicles, and DNA
    Session Chair: Fredrik Thege – University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Session Chair: Jina Ko, PhD – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Bioengineering, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Concurrent Platform Sessions I
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Emerging Therapies
    Session Chair: Geelsu Hwang, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Session Chair: Richard C. Willson, MS, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Houston
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Engineering cell function
    Session Chair: Nisha Iyer, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tufts University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Microfluidics for Cellular Analysis
    Session Chair: David Myers, PhD (he/him/his) – Emory University
    Session Chair: Salil Desai, PhD (he/him/his) – Wentworth Institute of Technology
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Neural Device Interfaces
    Session Chair: Amol P. Yadav, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Session Chair: Lakiesha N. Williams, PhD – University of Florida
    Neural Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Communicable Diseases
    Session Chair: Jessilyn Dunn, PhD – Duke University
    Session Chair: Gulden Camci-Unal (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Global Health Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Stimuli-responsive biomaterials - Session I
    Session Chair: Younghye Song, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas
    Session Chair: Anna Stejskalova, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School/ Wyss Institute
    Biomaterials
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Targeted or Localized Drug Delivery Systems I
    Session Chair: Dhiraj Kumar, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota, Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences
    Session Chair: Patrick Hwang, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rowan-Virtua School of Translational Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Glassboro, New Jersey
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    The Power of Education and Innovation
    Session Chair: Brent Winslow, PhD – Google
    Session Chair: Melissa Mendoza-Seale – Exponent, Inc.
    Session Chair: Wuqiang Zhu, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
    Synergizing Research and Cultural Excellence
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Translational Applications of Biomedical Modeling & Simulation
    Session Chair: Pingkun Yan, PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Session Chair: Ryan Zurakowski, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutic Ultrasound I
    Session Chair: Isha Mutreja, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Session Chair: Amir Manbachi, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EST
    BMES National Meetings Committee & 2025 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Meeting (By Invitation Only)
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Epigenetic engineering of cells
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Getting off on the right foot: advice panel for new and future faculty
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Lessons Learned from the BME Summit
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    National Institutes of Health: Improving the Review of Research Project Grant and Fellowship Applications
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    NCI Programs to develop and translate technologies to the clinic for cancer prevention
    Special Sessions
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Panel Discussion: Women's Health and Biomedical Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    SBIR/STTR: NIH Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Support for Biotech Startups and Small Businesses
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Synergies between Research and Teaching: Exploring how Engineering Education Research Can Advance Your Career
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Tapping into the Wisdom of the Crowd: Participating in NIH Prize Competitions for MedTech Development
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST
    A Dialogue with the Council of Chairs
  • 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EST
    Special Event - Building Accessibility Breakfast
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology - Poster Session A
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomanufacturing - Poster Session A
    Biomanufacturing
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomaterials - Poster Session A
    Biomaterials
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomechanics - Poster Session A
    Biomechanics
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomedical Engineering Education - Poster Session A
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation - Poster Session A
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cancer Technologies - Poster Session A
    Cancer Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cardiovascular Engineering - Poster Session A
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering - Poster Session A
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics - Poster Session A
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Drug Delivery - Poster Session A
    Moderator: Ian Y. Wong, PhD (he/him/his) – Brown University
    Moderator: Leo Wan, PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute `
    Drug Delivery
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Global Health Technologies - Poster Session A
    Global Health Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Immunoengineering - Poster Session A
    Immunoengineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Nano and Micro Technologies - Poster Session A
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Neural Engineering - Poster Session A
    Neural Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering - Poster Session A
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases - Poster Session A
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Tissue Engineering - Poster Session A
    Tissue Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Women's Health - Poster Session A
    Womens Health
  • 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
    Plenary
  • 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM EST
    Special Event - Celebration of Communities of Color in BME Luncheon (Ticket purchase required)
  • 12:15 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
    BME Grand Challenges: Defining the Future of the Field
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    AI-associated cardiovascular engineering
    Session Chair: Reza Avazmohammadi, PhD – Texas A&M University
    Session Chair: Jingfeng Jiang – Michigan Technological University
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Articular Cartilage, Meniscus, and Joints II
    Session Chair: Clark Hung – Columbia University
    Session Chair: Timothy Lowe, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Biomaterials for Stem Cell Engineering
    Session Chair: Michael Blatchley
    Session Chair: Sebastian Vega, PhD – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ and Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ
    Biomaterials
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Biomechanics and Sports Helmets
    Session Chair: Walt Baxter, PhD – Medtronic
    Session Chair: Morteza Seidi, PhD, PE – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Biomechanics
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Cardiovascular Biomechanics
    Session Chair: Yong Yang, PhD (he/him/his) – University of North Texas
    Session Chair: Jason  Szafron, PhD (he/him/his) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Aylin Acun, PhD (she/her/hers) – Widener University
    Session Chair: Estelle Park, PhD (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
    Tissue Engineering
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Cell-matrix interactions
    Session Chair: Bethany Almeida, PhD (she/her/hers) – Clarkson University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Immunoengineering I: Nanoparticles for Vaccines
    Session Chair: Christopher B. Rodell, PhD (he/him/his) – Drexel University
    Session Chair: Michelle Teplensky, PhD (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Immunoengineering
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Machine Learning I
    Session Chair: Aisha J. Chen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Azusa Pacific University
    Session Chair: Nzinga Mack, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Applications (MRI) I
    Session Chair: Ria Mazumder, PhD (she/her/hers) – Widener University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Microfluidics for Cellular Separations and Processing
    Session Chair: Caroline Jones – The University of Texas at Dallas/UT Southwestern Medical Center
    Session Chair: Julea Vlassakis, PhD (she/her/hers) – Rice University
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Modulating T cell phenotypes with Biomaterials
    Session Chair: Chia-Wen Chang, PhD – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Session Chair: Zhongkui Hong, PhD (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    Biomaterials
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Curriculum and K-12 Outreach
    Session Chair: Anika Pirkey
    Session Chair: Hoda Hatoum, PhD (she/her/hers) – Michigan Technological University
    Session Chair: LaShan Hendrix – University of Cincinnati
    Session Chair: Lyle Hood, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery Systems
    Session Chair: Ali Salifu, PhD – Boston College
    Session Chair: Jyothi Menon, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Rhode Island
    Drug Delivery
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Neuro-Regenerative Engineering
    Session Chair: David Shreiber, PhD – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Neural Engineering
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Novel Strategies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis I
    Session Chair: Jude M. Phillip, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
    Session Chair: Maureen Lynch, PhD – University of Colorado Boulder
    Cancer Technologies
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Optical and Spectroscopic Imaging, Microscopy, and Spectroscopy (Optics)
    Session Chair: Kunal Mitra, PhD – Florida Institute of Technology
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Single-Cell Measurements and Models
    Session Chair: Sophia Orbach, PhD – Rowan University
    Session Chair: Alex xu, PhD – University of Maryland
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Wearable Sensors and Devices 1
    Session Chair: Christopher Arena, PhD – Virginia Tech
    Session Chair: Aijun Wang – UC Davis
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Women's cancer
    Session Chair: Maria Gonzalez Porras, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Session Chair: Catherine F. Whittington – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Womens Health
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Alpha Eta Mu Beta: Mentoring for INnovative Design Solutions (MINDS) Scholars Program Workshop
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Athanasiou Student Award Session
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Collaborating with NIH Intramural Research Program Investigators – Tips and Opportunities
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Education Committee Meeting
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Empower and Connect: Speed Networking Event by BlackinBME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Engineering Endocrine Tissue Function
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Finding a biomedical engineering postdoctoral training position in the NIH Intramural Research Program
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    NIH / NIBIB Funding Panel
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    Student Affairs Subcommittee Meeting
  • 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
    YOU GOT THE (FACULTY) JOB! Now What?
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology - Poster Session B
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Biomanufacturing - Poster Session B
    Biomanufacturing
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Biomaterials - Poster Session B
    Biomaterials
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Biomechanics - Poster Session B
    Biomechanics
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Biomedical Engineering Education - Poster Session B
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation - Poster Session B
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Cancer Technologies - Poster Session B
    Cancer Technologies
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Cardiovascular Engineering - Poster Session B
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering - Poster Session B
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics - Poster Session B
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Drug Delivery - Poster Session B
    Drug Delivery
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Global Health Technologies - Poster Session B
    Global Health Technologies
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Immunoengineering - Poster Session B
    Immunoengineering
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Nano and Micro Technologies - Poster Session B
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Neural Engineering - Poster Session B
    Neural Engineering
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering - Poster Session B
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases - Poster Session B
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Tissue Engineering - Poster Session B
    Tissue Engineering
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST
    Women's Health - Poster Session B
    Womens Health
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Biomaterials for Cardiac and Vascular Applications
    Session Chair: Vivek Kumar, PhD – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Alex Khang, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Biomaterials
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Biomaterials for Therapeutic Delivery
    Session Chair: XiaoYue Yang, PhD – university of kentucky
    Session Chair: Adem Yildirim
    Biomaterials
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Cancer cell bioengineering
    Session Chair: Youhua Tan, PhD (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Cancer Drug Delivery & Nanotechnology
    Session Chair: Tanmoy Saha, PhD (he/him/his) – Brigham and Women's Hoapital, Harvard Medical School
    Session Chair: Younghye Song, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas
    Cancer Technologies
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Cardiac Pathophysiology: Electrophysiology and Heart Valves
    Session Chair: Hoda Hatoum, PhD (she/her/hers) – Michigan Technological University
    Session Chair: Sung Jin Park (he/him/his) – Georgia Tech and Emory Univ
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Cardiovascular Biomechanics I
    Session Chair: Lucas Timmins, PhD (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University, Biomedical Engineering
    Session Chair: Hossein Ravanbakhsh, PhD – The University of Akron
    Session Chair: Matthew R. Bersi, PhD (he/him/his) – Washington University in St. Louis
    Biomechanics
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Emerging Tissue Engineering Technologies
    Session Chair: Zhen Ma, PhD (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    Session Chair: Ben Cosgrove – Cornell University
    Tissue Engineering
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Genome engineering
    Session Chair: Samagya Banskota – Boston University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Imaging and Informatics Techniques in Tissue, Organs, Physiological Systems
    Session Chair: Brian Kwee, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Immunoengineering II: Cell & Molecular Engineering
    Session Chair: Liz Wayne – University of Washington
    Session Chair: Leslie Chan, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Immunoengineering
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Implantable and Neural Devices and Sensors
    Session Chair: Christopher Arena, PhD – Virginia Tech
    Session Chair: Aijun Wang – UC Davis
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Innovations in Diagnostic Testing
    Session Chair: Aniruddh Sarkar, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Donghui Zhu, PhD – Stony Brook University
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Machine Learning II
    Session Chair: Hoan Ngo – Florida Southern College
    Session Chair: Patrick Boyle, FHRS, FAHA (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Muscle, Tendon, and Ligament
    Session Chair: Vincent Wang, PhD (he/him/his) – Virginia Tech
    Session Chair: Young Jang – Emory University
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Nano / Micro Technologies for Drug Delivery
    Session Chair: Yupeng Chen, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Connecticut
    Session Chair: Marissa E. Wechsler, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Neuromodulation: Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
    Session Chair: Elvira Pirondini – University of Pittsburgh
    Session Chair: Samantha Santacruz – University of Texas Austin
    Neural Engineering
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Neuromuscular and Brain Biomechanics
    Session Chair: Noah Rubin, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
    Session Chair: Shang Wang, PhD – Stevens Institute of Technology
    Biomechanics
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Nucleic Acid Delivery
    Session Chair: Stefan Wilhelm, PhD – University of Oklahoma
    Session Chair: Christopher Nelson, PhD – University of Arkansas
    Drug Delivery
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Organoid Biomanufacturing
    Session Chair: Ying Wang, PhD (she/her/hers) – Binghamton Univeristy
    Session Chair: Huaxiao Yang, PhD – University of North Texas
    Session Chair: Huaxiao Yang, PhD – University of North Texas
    Session Chair: Ying Wang, PhD (she/her/hers) – Binghamton Univeristy
    Biomanufacturing
  • 3:45 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Federal Agencies and Biomedical Engineering Research Careers (NIH, FDA, NASA, NIST, and NSF)
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Alpha Eta Mu Beta: Annual Meeting
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Best Practices for Interacting with Industry: NDAs, Industry Sponsored Research, Licensing and Beyond.
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Black Women in Biomedical Engineering
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Ethics and use of social media amongst student members and professional biomedical engineers
  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM EST
    Meet and Greet: Future predoctoral/postdoctoral researchers and NIBIB-funded T32 training programs
  • 3:45 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
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM EST
    12th US-Korea Biomedical Engineering Workshop
  • 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM EST
    BMES Fellows Champagne Toast (Invitation only)
  • 6:15 PM – 7:45 PM EST
    Industry Mixer
  • 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM EST
    Plenary Session - Diversity Award Lecture & 2024 New BMES Fellows Announcement
    Plenary Session - Diversity Award Lecture & 2024 New BMES Fellows Announcement
    Plenary
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EST
    Hosted Receptions at Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel
    Hosted Reception
  • Friday, October 25, 2024
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation I

    Track Chair Session Builder: Ria Mazumder, PhD – Widener University

    Session Chair: Daniel Roozbahani

  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
    Registration Badge Pickup
  • 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    AI/ML-guided Biomaterials Design and Synthesis
    Session Chair: Indrajit Sriastava, PhD (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    Session Chair: Theresa M. Raimondo, PhD – Brown University
    Biomaterials
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Biomaterial Solutions for Osteoarthritis and other Cartilage Defects
    Session Chair: Uday Chintapula, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Session Chair: Nathan Richbourg, PhD (he/him/his) – Tufts University
    Biomaterials
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Biomechanics of Rehabilitation/Injury
    Session Chair: David Jamison, PhD (he/him/his) – Villanova University
    Biomechanics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cancer Migration and Metastasis
    Session Chair: Alexander Buffone, Jr., PhD (he/him/his) – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Samagya Banskota – Boston University
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cardiovascular Biomechanics II
    Session Chair: Craig Goergen, PhD (he/him/his) – Purdue University
    Session Chair: Jun Liao, PhD – University of Texas at Arlington
    Session Chair: Jungwook Paek, PhD – SUNY Binghamton
    Biomechanics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering 1
    Session Chair: Parisa Abadi, PhD (she/her/hers) – Michigan Technological University
    Session Chair: Huaxiao Yang, PhD – University of North Texas
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cell mechanics II
    Session Chair: Jonathan Brunger, PhD – Vanderbilt University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cellular and Molecular Mechanobiology II
    Session Chair: Whasil Lee, PhD – University of Rochester, NY
    Session Chair: Eno  Ebong – Northeastern University
    Biomechanics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    Session Chair: LaShan Hendrix – University of Cincinnati
    Session Chair: Anne-Marie Ginn-Hedman, PhD – Texas A&M University Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Session Chair: Hoda Hatoum, PhD (she/her/hers) – Michigan Technological University
    Session Chair: Constanza Miranda, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Drug Delivery and Tissue Regeneration
    Session Chair: Juhi Samal, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Session Chair: Marissa E. Wechsler, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Session Chair: Samagya Banskota – Boston University
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Gynecological Health
    Session Chair: LaDeirda Monet Roberts
    Session Chair: Anna Stejskalova, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School/ Wyss Institute
    Womens Health
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Immune Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Christopher B. Rodell, PhD (he/him/his) – Drexel University
    Session Chair: Ankur Singh – Georgia Insitute of Technology
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Immunoengineering III: Immune Tolerance
    Session Chair: Robert S. Oakes, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Session Chair: Joshua C. Doloff, MA, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, Translational Tissue Engineering Center (TTEC), and the Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT)
    Immunoengineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Mechanobiology and Mechanotransduction in Orthopaedic Tissues
    Session Chair: Catherine K. Kuo, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
    Session Chair: Christopher J. Panebianco, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Multi-Scale Computational Modeling & Simulation
    Session Chair: Marian Hettiaratchi, PhD – University of Oregon
    Session Chair: Suman Chowdhury, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Florida
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Neural Decoding & Control
    Session Chair: Sumientra Rampersad, MS PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Boston
    Neural Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Organ on a Chip I
    Session Chair: Susan Leggett, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Session Chair: Yubing Sun – University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Prosthetics, Biomechanics, and Assistive Technology
    Session Chair: Sara Arena, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
    Session Chair: Kathleen Bieryla, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Portland
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Stimuli-responsive biomaterials - Session II
    Session Chair: Chien-Chi Lin
    Session Chair: Shilpy Bhullar
    Biomaterials
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Targeted or Localized Drug Delivery Systems II
    Session Chair: Rajarshi Chattaraj, PhD – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Simone Douglas-Green, PhD (she/her/hers) – Georgia Tech & Emory University
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Technology Advancements
    Session Chair: Yonghui Ding, PhD (he/him/his) – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Session Chair: Jingyi Luan – University of Houston
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutic Ultrasound II
    Session Chair: Junjie Yao – Duke University
    Session Chair: Costas Arvanitis, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    BIEE Editorial Board Meeting (by invitation only)
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    BMES Student Chapter Best Practices and This Year's Winners
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Honorary Session for Prof. Leslie Tung
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Interdisciplinary programs at NCI to accelerate research in fundamental cancer biology
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Master's Program Workshop: Aligning Programs with Student Career Goals
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Navigating Medical School and Working with Clinicians
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    NCI/NSF SPARK for material scientists and cancer researchers
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    NIH/NIBIB Scientific Review – Update on Changes to NIH Review and Mock Review Panel
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    The Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Parts I
  • 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM EST
    Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology - Poster Session C
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomanufacturing - Poster Session C
    Biomanufacturing
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomaterials - Poster Session C
    Biomaterials
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomechanics - Poster Session C
    Biomechanics
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomedical Engineering Education - Poster Session C
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation - Poster Session C
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cancer Technologies - Poster Session C
    Cancer Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cardiovascular Engineering - Poster Session C
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering - Poster Session C
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics - Poster Session C
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Drug Delivery - Poster Session C
    Drug Delivery
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Global Health Technologies - Poster Session C
    Global Health Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Global Health Technologies- Poster Session C
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Immunoengineering - Poster Session C
    Immunoengineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Nano and Micro Technologies - Poster Session C
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Neural Engineering - Poster Session C
    Neural Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering - Poster Session C
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases - Poster Session C
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Tissue Engineering - Poster Session C
    Tissue Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Women's Health - Poster Session C
    Womens Health
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Women's Health- Poster Session C
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Women's Health - Poster Session C
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Plenary Session - NIH/NIBIB Lecture and Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Awards
    Presenting Author: Bruce Tromberg, PhD – National Institutes of Health
    Presenting Author: Janine Clayton
    Plenary
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
    Special Events - Gender Equity in BME Luncheon (Ticket purchase required)
  • 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
    Plenary
  • 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
  • 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Biomaterials for Immunoengineering
    Session Chair: Laura C. Bahlmann, PhD, Biomedical Engineering (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Marjan Rafat, PhD – Vanderbilt University
    Biomaterials
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Biomaterials for tissue replacement, regeneration, or repair
    Session Chair: Amir Sheikhi, PhD (he/him/his) – Penn State University
    Session Chair: Pouria Fattahi, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
    Biomaterials
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Cancer Mechanobiology
    Session Chair: Jian Zhang, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Arkansas
    Session Chair: Katie M. Young, MS, PhD (she/her/hers) – Rice University
    Biomechanics
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Computational Immunoengineering
    Session Chair: Meghan C. Ferrall-Fairbanks, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Session Chair: Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Drug Delivery and Tissue Repair
    Session Chair: Priscilla Lopez, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Session Chair: Ryan Williams, PhD – City College of New York
    Drug Delivery
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Endometriosis and Uterine Fibroids
    Session Chair: Nathan Richbourg, PhD (he/him/his) – Tufts University
    Session Chair: Erika Moore, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
    Womens Health
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Imaging System Development, Emerging Imaging Techniques and Others
    Session Chair: Lei Fan, PhD – Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin
    Session Chair: Kunal Mitra, PhD – Florida Institute of Technology
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Immunoengineering IV: Systems Immunology & Computational Analysis
    Session Chair: John Hickey, PhD – Duke University
    Session Chair: Samagya Banskota – Boston University
    Immunoengineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Lipid Nanoparticle-Based mRNA Delivery Systems
    Session Chair: John R. Clegg, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Oklahoma, Norman
    Session Chair: Chris A. Bashur, PhD – Florida Institute of Technology
    Drug Delivery
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Lung, Liver, GI
    Session Chair: Jingwei Xie, PHD (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Session Chair: Jungwook Paek, PhD – SUNY Binghamton
    Tissue Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Applications (MRI) II
    Session Chair: Yin Ren – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
    Session Chair: Renita Horton
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Mechanisms, Diagnostics, and Therapies for Rehabilitation of Orthopaedic Tissues
    Session Chair: Natalie Leong, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore VA Medical Center
    Session Chair: Jamie Benson, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Modeling & Simulation of Biological Signaling I
    Session Chair: Roberto Alonso Matilla, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
    Session Chair: Francois Bordeleau, PhD (he/him/his) – Universite Laval
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Neonatal Technologies
    Session Chair: Jessilyn Dunn, PhD – Duke University
    Session Chair: Gulden Camci-Unal (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Global Health Technologies
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Neuromodulation: Brain & Spinal Cord Stimulation
    Session Chair: Edgar Peña Peña – University of Minnesota Twin Cities
    Session Chair: Enrico Opri – University of Michigan Ann Arbor
    Neural Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Omics approaches for cell and molecular bioengineering
    Session Chair: Pranam Chatterjee – Duke University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Organ on a Chip II
    Session Chair: Erkin Seker, PhD – University of California, Davis
    Session Chair: Song Ih Ahn – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Single-cell Analysis of Cancer
    Session Chair: Stefan Wilhelm, PhD – University of Oklahoma
    Session Chair: Liang Hao – Boston University
    Cancer Technologies
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Targeted delivery
    Session Chair: Ana Salazar-Puerta, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Tumor Microenvironment I
    Session Chair: Grace G. Bushnell, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Session Chair: LaDeirda Monet Roberts
    Cancer Technologies
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Vascular Engineering & Hemocompatibility
    Session Chair: Roger Guillory, II, PhD – Medical College of Wisconsin
    Session Chair: Feng Zhao, PhD (she/her/hers) – Texas A & M University
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Wearable Sensors and Devices 2
    Session Chair: Krittika Goyal, PhD – Rochester Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Jayer Fernandes, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin Madison
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
    Are you ready to innovate?
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    BME Resume Guidance and Review
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Building Scholarship Collaborations: Computing in Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    DEBUT Challenge Project Presentations (NIBIB/VentureWell)
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Fundamentals of Medical Product Regulation for Biomedical Engineers - Perspectives from Academia, Industry, and Regulators
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Navigating Ethical Waters: Authorship, Reproducibility, and Publishing in the Era of AI
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    Nonclinical Tests: Advanced Engineering Strategies Inspired by the FDA Modernization Act 2.0
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    The Importance of Advocacy in Biomedical Engineering Research
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
    The Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Parts II
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology - Poster Session D
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Biomanufacturing - Poster Session D
    Biomanufacturing
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Biomaterials - Poster Session D
    Biomaterials
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Biomechanics - Poster Session D
    Biomechanics
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Biomedical Engineering Education - Poster Session D
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation - Poster Session D
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Cancer Technologies - Poster Session D
    Cancer Technologies
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Cardiovascular Engineering - Poster Session D
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Cardiovascular Engineering- Poster Session D
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Cardiovascular Engineering - Poster Session D
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering - Poster Session D
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics - Poster Session D
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Drug Delivery - Poster Session D
    Drug Delivery
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Global Health Technologies - Poster Session D
    Global Health Technologies
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Immunoengineering - Poster Session D
    Immunoengineering
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Nano and Micro Technologies - Poster Session D
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Neural Engineering - Poster Session D
    Neural Engineering
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Neuro-Regenerative Engineering
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering - Poster Session D
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Self healing Biomaterials
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases - Poster Session D
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Tissue Engineering - Poster Session D
    Tissue Engineering
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
    Women's Health - Poster Session D
    Womens Health
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    3D Printing and Advanced Biomaterials Manufacturing
    Session Chair: Zachary A. Dooley, MS (he/him/his) – OrthoFix Medical Inc.
    Session Chair: Rebecca Byler – Yale University
    Biomaterials
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Biomanufacturing of Cell-Derived Products
    Session Chair: Tracy Hookway, PhD (she/her/hers) – Binghamton University
    Session Chair: Jiandi Wan, PhD – UC Davis
    Biomanufacturing
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Biomaterial Modifications for Therapeutic Delivery
    Session Chair: Taimoor H. Qazi, PhD – Purdue University
    Session Chair: Parisa Yousefpour, PhD – MIT
    Biomaterials
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Biomolecular Sensing and Imaging I
    Session Chair: Seunghyun Kim, PhD – Baylor University
    Session Chair: Ryan Williams, PhD – City College of New York
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Bone
    Session Chair: Young Jang – Emory University
    Session Chair: Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, PhD – Lehigh University Bioengineering
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Cell signaling
    Session Chair: Longwei Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Computational and Multiscale Modeling in Biomechanics
    Session Chair: Farhad R. Nezami (he/him/his) – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Session Chair: Amir K. Miri, PhD (he/him/his) – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Lin Jiang, PhD (she/her/hers) – San Jose State University
    Biomechanics
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Computational Modeling of Cancer & Systems Biology
    Session Chair: Sarah Shelton, PhD – North Carolina State University & University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Session Chair: Karin Wang, PhD – Temple University
    Cancer Technologies
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation I
    Session Chair: Daniel Roozbahani
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Design and Curriculum
    Session Chair: Karissa Tilbury, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maine
    Session Chair: Kelsey Kubelick, PhD – University of Virginia
    Session Chair: Michelle Zwernemann, MSE (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Session Chair: Elizabeth Logsdon – Johns Hopkins University
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Immunoengineering V: Immune Mechanobiology
    Session Chair: Edikan Ogunnaike – Emory University
    Session Chair: David Gau – University of Pittsburgh
    Immunoengineering
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Lymphatic engineering in Cardiovascular Diseases and Regeneration
    Session Chair: Abhishek Jain, PhD – Texas A&M University
    Session Chair: Donny Hanjaya-Putra – University of Notre Dame
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Modeling & Simulation of Biological Signaling II
    Session Chair: Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, PhD (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
    Session Chair: Purushottam Dixit, PhD (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Muscle Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Laura Hansen, PhD – Emory University
    Session Chair: Tristan Driscoll, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University
    Tissue Engineering
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Nanoparticle-Based Nucleic Acid Delivery Systems
    Session Chair: Jyothi Menon, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Rhode Island
    Session Chair: Tanmoy Saha, PhD (he/him/his) – Brigham and Women's Hoapital, Harvard Medical School
    Session Chair: Maria Gonzalez Porras, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Drug Delivery
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Neural Models & Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Kevin J. Otto, PhD (he/him/his) – Purdue University
    Neural Engineering
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Point of Care and Mobile Devices
    Session Chair: Ashley R. Taylor, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Sex differences
    Session Chair: Heidi Kloefkorn, PhD – Oregon State University
    Session Chair: Renita Horton
    Womens Health
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Vascular bioengineering
    Session Chair: William Polachek – UNC Chapel Hill
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM EST
    Bringing a Medical Device to Market: Utilizing Standards
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Advancing Imaging Standards: NIBIB Initiatives on Development and Dissemination of Imaging Phantoms
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Demystifying graduate school options and application processes
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Engineering Innovations for Women’s Health: Networking for Challenges and Opportunities
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    High-Speed Neurophotonics: Bridging Voltage Sensing and Kilohertz Imaging
  • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    FDA: Use and Development of Consensus Standards for Medical Devices
  • 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM EST
    BMES Member Appreciation Night at Power Plant Live!
  • Saturday, October 26, 2024
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Undergraduate Advances in Device Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM EST
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
    Registration Badge Pickup
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    AI and Multi-Modal Sensing
    Session Chair: Elain Fu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
    Session Chair: Richard Wilson – University of Houston
    Global Health Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Antibacterial and Antifungal Biomaterials
    Session Chair: Amber L. Doiron, MS, PhD (she/they) – University of Vermont
    Session Chair: Geelsu Hwang, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Biomaterials
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Bioengineering across the lifespan
    Session Chair: Alexandra Rindone, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Biomaterial-based Tissue Adhesives and Sealants
    Session Chair: Teng Su, PhD (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Session Chair: Lakeshia Taite
    Biomaterials
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cardiovascular Regeneration 2
    Session Chair: Duc-Huy T. Nguyen, PhD (he/him/his) – Weill Cornell Medical College
    Session Chair: Ying Chen – Tufts University
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering 2
    Session Chair: Megan McCain – Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Session Chair: William Polacheck, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Drug Delivery and Cell Activation
    Session Chair: Samagya Banskota – Boston University
    Session Chair: Ali Salifu, PhD – Boston College
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Engineered Cancer Models for In Vitro Studies
    Session Chair: Cynthia Hajal, PhD (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University
    Session Chair: Susan Leggett, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Engineering Your Entrepreneurial Mindset: Sharing Perspectives from Academic and Industry BME Professionals
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Human Performance/Sports Biomechanics
    Session Chair: Sara Arena, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
    Session Chair: Vincent Wang, PhD (he/him/his) – Virginia Tech
    Biomechanics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Hydrogel-Based Drug Delivery Systems
    Session Chair: Yongsheng Gao, PhD – UT Dallas
    Session Chair: Zhenjiang Zhang, PhD – Rice University
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Matrix Effects in Mechanobiology
    Session Chair: Harikrishnan Parameswaran, PhD (he/him/his) – Northeastern University
    Session Chair: Axel Moore, PhD (he/him/his) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Biomechanics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Nano / Micro Patterned Surfaces for Biointerfaces
    Session Chair: Bethany Almeida, PhD (she/her/hers) – Clarkson University
    Session Chair: Erdem D. Tabdanov, Assistant Professor – Penn State College of Medicine
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Neural Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Bin Duan, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Session Chair: Juhi Samal, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Neuroimaging
    Session Chair: Alan Dorval – University of Utah
    Neural Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Novel Methods in Synthetic Biology & Systems Biology
    Session Chair: Erika Cyphert, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California San Diego
    Session Chair: John Hickey, PhD – Duke University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Novel Strategies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis II
    Session Chair: Julea Vlassakis, PhD (she/her/hers) – Rice University
    Session Chair: Ioannis Zervantonakis, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh, Bioengineering
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Lightning Talks
    Session Chair: Aaron Goldstein
    Session Chair: Hae Lin Jang
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Pregnancy and Fertility
    Session Chair: María Virumbrales-Muñoz, MS, PhD (she/her/hers) – UW SMPH OB-GYN Department
    Session Chair: Kaitlin Fogg, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
    Womens Health
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Screens and sensors
    Session Chair: Rajesh Ghosh, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Ultrasound, Photoacoustic Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Xray, CT and Others
    Session Chair: Isha Mutreja, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Session Chair: Amir Manbachi, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Undergraduate Advances in Device Technologies
    Session Chair: Leah Thomas – Virginia Tech
    Session Chair: Jenna Yasmin Altaii (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Undergraduate Lightning Talks
    Session Chair: Aaron Goldstein
    Session Chair: Hae Lin Jang
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Increasing Undergraduate Participation and Leveraging Post-Baccalaureate Positions in Research Settings
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Multimodal AI in Biomedical Data Analysis and Disease Diagnosis
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    NIBIB Funding Opportunities to Enhance Diversity in the Biomedical Engineering Research Workforce
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    Physical Science of Cancer Special Session
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology - Poster Session E
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomanufacturing - Poster Session E
    Biomanufacturing
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomaterials - Poster Session E
    Biomaterials
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomechanics - Poster Session E
    Biomechanics
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomedical Engineering Education - Poster Session E
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation - Poster Session E
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cancer Technologies - Poster Session E
    Cancer Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cardiovascular Engineering - Poster Session E
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering - Poster Session E
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics - Poster Session E
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Drug Delivery - Poster Session E
    Drug Delivery
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Global Health Technologies - Poster Session E
    Global Health Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Immunoengineering - Poster Session E
    Immunoengineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Nano and Micro Technologies - Poster Session E
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Neural Engineering - Poster Session E
    Neural Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering - Poster Session E
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases - Poster Session E
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Tissue Engineering - Poster Session E
    Tissue Engineering
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Women's Health - Poster Session E
    Womens Health
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    HS Poster
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
    Plenary Session - Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award Lecture, and Mid-Career Award & Presentation of BMES Journal Awards
    Plenary
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Advances in Biomaterial Devices
    Session Chair: Jingwei Xie, PHD (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Session Chair: William Polacheck, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Biomaterials
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Biomechanics In Cell and Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Jason  Szafron, PhD (he/him/his) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Session Chair: Olivia Boerman, PhD (she/her/hers) – Bucknell University
    Biomechanics
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Cell migration
    Session Chair: Hyuntae Jeong, PhD (he/him/his) – Brown University
    Session Chair: Jonathan R. Soucy, PhD (he/him/his) – Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye & Ear, Harvard Medical School
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Drug Delivery and Immunomodulation
    Session Chair: Alexandra S. Piotrowski-Daspit, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Session Chair: Juhi Samal, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Drug Delivery
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Immunoengineering VI: T cell Responses in Cancer Immunotherapy
    Session Chair: Nzinga Mack, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Session Chair: Namit Chaudhary – MIT
    Immunoengineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Interventional Devices and Robotics
    Session Chair: Lyle Hood, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Session Chair: Guillermo L. Monroy, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Musculoskeletal system
    Session Chair: Yunzhi Peter Yang – Stanford University
    Session Chair: Vivian K. Lee, PhD – Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Neural & Glial Cell Engineering
    Session Chair: Bryan Pfister – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Neural Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Omics I
    Session Chair: Jennifer L. Wilson, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California Los Angeles
    Session Chair: Christopher Kieslich, PhD – Auburn University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Optics, Endoscopy, OCT and Others
    Session Chair: Siavash Ahrar (he/him/his) – CSULB / Biomedical Engineering
    Session Chair: Marjan Rafat, PhD – Vanderbilt University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Organ on a Chip III
    Session Chair: Molly Kozminsky, PhD (she/her/hers) – Iowa State University
    Session Chair: Sarah Shelton, PhD – North Carolina State University & University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Skeletal Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Jun Liao, PhD – University of Texas at Arlington
    Session Chair: Vivek Bajpai – University of Oklahoma
    Tissue Engineering
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Teaching. Learning, and Pedagogy
    Session Chair: Ruth Ochia, PhD (she/her/hers) – Temple University
    Session Chair: R. Lyle Hood, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    The Immune Response to Biomaterials
    Session Chair: Biplab Sarkar
    Session Chair: Lawrence J. Dooling, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ Houston / University of Pennsylvania
    Biomaterials
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Therapeutic Delivery and Prevention
    Session Chair: Andrew Jones – Duke University
    Session Chair: David Myers, PhD (he/him/his) – Emory University
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Tumor Microenvironment II
    Session Chair: Ioannis Zervantonakis, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh, Bioengineering
    Session Chair: Walter Murfee – University of Florida
    Cancer Technologies
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Undergraduate Lightning Talks
    Session Chair: Simona Plesselova, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research
    Session Chair: Pilar de la Puente, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research / University of South Dakota School of Medicine
    Womens Health
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    Organoid Intelligence (OI): Advancing Biocomputing through Multidisciplinary Collaboration
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
    The Inaugural WACBE-BMES Workshop: Strengthening Global Science Dialogue and Collaboration
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 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
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Biomolecular Sensing and Imaging II
    Session Chair: Elain Fu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
    Session Chair: Daniel Wang – Johns Hopkins University
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Cancer Mechanobiology
    Session Chair: Stephanie Seidlits, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Austin
    Session Chair: Omokolade Adebowale – UCSD
    Cancer Technologies
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Cell-cell interactions
    Session Chair: Franck J. Kamga Gninzeko, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation II
    Session Chair: Kennita Johnson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NC State
    Session Chair: Daniel Roozbahani
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Drug Delivery for Cancer Treatment
    Session Chair: Urara Hasegawa, PhD – Penn State
    Session Chair: Christopher Nelson, PhD – University of Arkansas
    Drug Delivery
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Engineered Vascularization
    Session Chair: Allison Andrews – University of Florida
    Session Chair: Quinton Smith, PhD – University of California, Irvine
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Mechanics of the Lungs, Gut, and Blood Components
    Session Chair: Anita Singh – Temple University
    Session Chair: Bingmei Fu, PhD (she/her/hers) – The City College of New York
    Biomechanics
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Natural and Bioinspired Biomaterials
    Session Chair: Parinaz Fathi, PhD – NIH/NIBIB
    Session Chair: Rebecca Scott, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Oklahoma
    Biomaterials
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Omics II
    Session Chair: Yixiang Deng, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware
    Session Chair: Anandi Krishnan, PhD (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Self healing Biomaterials
    Session Chair: Carey Dougan
    Session Chair: Johnson V. John, Ph.D (he/him/his) – Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation
    Biomaterials
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering
    Session Chair: Sung Jin Park (he/him/his) – Georgia Tech and Emory Univ
    Session Chair: Lance Lian – Penn State University
    Tissue Engineering