HUMANITY UNLOCKING BIOMATERIALS

ANNUAL MEETING ITINERARY

Hilton Chicago

Marquette Room, 3rd Floor

720 South Michigan, Chicago, IL 60607

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | LIGHT BREAKFAST

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM | OPENING REMARKS

• Lola Eniola-Adefeso, University of Illinois Chicago, Dean of College of Engineering/Professor of Biomedical Engineering and HUB PI

• Kelly Stevens, University of Washington, Associate Professor of Bioengineering & Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and HUB PI

TRANSLATION

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM | TRANSLATIONAL CORE KEYNOTE

• Christopher Breuer, Center for Regenerative Medicine at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Director and Professor of Surgery

  Development and Translation of a Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft Designed for use in Children

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | TRANSALATIONAL CORE PANEL

• Guillermo Ameer, Northwestern University, Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery

  Regenerative Engineering: Enabling Clinical Regenerative Medicine

• Diane Bouis, Microvascular Health Solutions, Chief Executive Officer

  Accelerating biomaterial translation and commercialization

• Ramille Shah, Dimension Inx, Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer and University of Illinois Chicago Associate Professor of Bioengineering

  Paving the Way for the Use of 3D Printable Biomaterials in Advanced Therapies

• Christopher Breuer, Center for Regenerative Medicine at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Director and Professor of Surgery

COMPUTATION

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | COMPUTATIONAL/MODELING KEYNOTE

• Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania Professor and Herman P. Schwann Chair of Bioengineering

  AI-enabled Physics-Based Digital Twins in Cancer and Nanomedicine

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | COMPUTATIONAL/MODELING CORE PANEL & WORLD CAFE’

• Belinda Akpa, University of Tennessee Knoxville Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  Where Should We Begin? Building a Relationship with Modeling and Computational-thinking

• Ashlee Ford Versypt, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering

  Computational Modeling and Experimental Collaborations Across Engineering Biomaterials and Tissue Microenvironments

• Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania Professor and Herman P. Schwann Chair of Bioengineering

EDUCATION

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | EDUCATIONAL CORE KEYNOTE

• Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, Lehigh University Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

  Engaging Biomedical Engineering Education Through Interactive Lectures, Hands-On Demonstrations, and Student-Driven Clinical Case Studies

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | EDUCATIONAL CORE PANEL

• Salman Khetani, University of Illinois Chicago Associate Head and Professor at Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering

  Scalability and Reproducibility Considerations for Engineered Tissues

• Alyssa Taylor, University of California San Diego Teaching Professor at Shu Chien-Gene Lay Bioengineering

  Introducing Translation Topics via Bioengineering Undergraduate Senior Design

• Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, Lehigh University Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | CLOSING REMARKS

• Lola Eniola-Adefeso

• Kelly Stevens

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM | CLOSING WORKING DINNER RECEPTION

UIC Engineering Research Facility | ERF

West Atrium, 2nd Floor

842 W. Taylor, Chicago, IL 60607