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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, October 26, 2024
  • 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