| Symposium / Mon Oct 24 |
Plenary Welcome Session: Breakthroughs in BiomaterialsSession Chair: Joachim Kohn |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 am | Christopher J. Molloy, Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development - Rutgers University Welcome |
| 9:20 - 10:00 am | Robert Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Biomaterials and Biotechnology: From the Discovery of the First Angiogenesis Inhibitors to the Development of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems and the Foundation of Tissue Engineering" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 am |
Jennifer Elisseeff, Morton Goldberg Professor and Director of Translational Tissue Engineering Center, Biomedical Enginnering and Wilmer Eye Institute - Johns Hopkins University, "Discovery of Regenerative Biomaterials Through Bench to Bedside Translation" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 am | Kam Leong, Samuel Y Sheng Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Systems Biology - Columbia University, "Bioengineering Strategies to Advance Biomanufacturing of Cell and Tissue Therapeutics" |
| 11:30 - 12:00 pm | Jason Burdick, Professor, Department of Bioengineering - University of Pennsylvania "Injectable Shear-Thinning and Self-Healing Hydrogels for Tissue Repair and Biomedical Applications" |
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| PARALLEL SESSION A |
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| 1:15 -2:35 pm | 1A Nanotechnology (Session Chair Kaiming Ye) |
2A Tissue Engineering (Session Chair Antonio Merolli) |
3A Standards and Regulatory Science (Session Chair Joseph Rosen) |
4A Biofabrication (Session Chair Ibrahim Ozbolat) |
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| 1:15 - 1:40 pm | Justin Hanes, Lewis J. Ort Professor of Ophthalmology Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Environmental Health Sciences, Neurosurgery, and Oncology- Johns Hopkins University - "Drug and Nucleic Acid Delivery to the Brain" |
Paul Falkowski, Board of Governors' Professor Rutgers University - "How Corals Make Rocks"
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Carl G. Simon, Biologist, Biosystems & Biomaterials Division - National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Measurement Assurance Strategies for Tissue Engineering Research" | Wei Sun, Albert Soffa Chair Professor Drexel University and National "Thousand-Talent" Distinguished Professor Tsinghua University - "From 3D Printing to Bio-3D Printing- Challenges and Opportunities" | ||||
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1:40 - 2:05 pm |
Liisa Kuhn, Associate Professor of Reconstructive Sciences- University of Connecticut Health Center, "Turn To The Left, Then Turn To The Right: Nanostructured Drug Delivery Systems For Guiding Multiple Steps Of Tissue Regeneration" |
Hasan Erbil Abaci, Postdoctoral Researcher Columbia University - "Recapitulating Hair Follicle Neogenesis in Human Skin Equivalents" |
Michael Drues, Regulatory Consultant, Vascular Sciences- "Communication with FDA: What Do We Say and How Do We Say It?" | David Dean, Associate Professor, Ohio State University- "Problems Facing the Current Spectrum of 3D Printable Biomedical Materials" | ||||
| 2:05 - 2:20 pm | Christopher Jewell, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland - "Design of Nanostructured Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Vaccines Assembled from Polyionic Immune Signals" | Sebastian L. Vega, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, "A Combinatorial Hydrogel Platform to Probe Stem Cell Chondrogenesis in 3D" | Becky Robinson-Zeigler, Team Leader and Biomedical Engineer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration - "The Not-So-Odd Couple-Regenerative Medicine and Regulatory Science" |
K.B. Rodenhausen, Field Appplication Scientist, Biolin Scientific- "Functionalized Three-Dimentsional Spatially Coherent Thin Films for Biomaterial Applications" | ||||
| 2:20 - 2:35 pm | Sijia Yi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University - "Engineering Nanomaterial Morphology for Targeting Immune Cells in Naïve and Atherosclerotic Mice" | Syam Nukavarapu, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut Health Center - "Unique Matrix Platform for an Integrated Bone-Cartilage Interface Regeneration" | Ying Mei, Assistant Professor Clemson University- "Peptide-functionalized Polymer Microarrays for Stem Cell Manufacturing" | |||||
| 2:35 - 3:30 pm POSTER SESSION: Full Details Here |
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| PARALLEL SESSION B |
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| 3:30 - 5:00 pm | 1B Nanotechnology (Session Chair Kaiming Ye) |
2B Tissue Engineering (Session Chair Hilton Kaplan) |
3B Translational Science (Session Chair Joseph Rosen) |
4B New Polymer Designs (Session Chair Ophir Ortiz) |
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| 3:30 - 3:45 pm | Bozena Michniak-Kohn- Professor - Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Director - Center for Dermal Research, Rutgers University "Drug-Loaded Tyrospheres for Dermal Delivery" | Alexandra Pastino, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Rutgers University, “Development of a Hybrid Scaffold with a Cell-Deposited Extracellular Matrix within a Synthetic Polymeric Fiber Mat” |
Abhijit Vijay Salvekar, Nanyang Institute of Technology in Health and Medicine - "Bioabsorbable Water-responsive Shape Memory Polymer-hydrogel Plug for Temporary Vascular Embolization in Liver Cancer Treatment" | Mariagemiliana Dessì, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rutgers University - "Expanding the Frontiers of Smart Anti-inflammatory Biomaterials: Leveraging Heat-shock Protein Analogues to Increase the Expression of Interleukin 10 for Therapeutic Application" | ||||
| 3:45 - 4:00 pm | Jeoung Soo Lee, Assistant Professor, Clemson University - "The Effect of Rolipram-Loaded Polymeric Micelle Nanoparticle on cAMP Level in Hypoxia Condition and in Rat SCI Model" | Aaron Morris, Yale University -"Genetically Engineered Acellular ECM Scaffolds for Enhanced Tissue Integration" | Daniel S. Oh, Assistant Professor, Columbia University - "Bone Regeneration in Segmental Defect via Biogenic Microenvironment Scaffold" | David Brennan, Rowan University - "Enhancing Macromolecular Orientation and Mechanical Properties of Electrospun Nanofibers Through Post-stretching" | ||||
| 4:00 - 4:15 pm | Panos G. Georgopoulos, Professor Rutgers University - "Multiscale Computational Modeling of Pulmonary Responses to Engineered Nanomaterials " | Brooke McClarren, Rutgers University - "Mesenchymal Stem Cell Response to Static Tension, Cyclic Tension, and Vibration" | Michael G. Dunn, Associate Professor, Rutgers University- "MeniscoFix: A New Approach for Meniscus Reconstruction" | Murat Guvendiren, Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology - "Designing Biomaterial Inks for 3D Printing of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds and Medical Devices" | ||||
| 4:15 - 4:30 pm |
Stavroula Sofou, Associate Professor, Rutgers University - "Triggered Ligand Clustering on Lipid Nanoparticles for Selective Targeting and Killing of Untargetable Cancer Cells: The Case for 'Sticky Patches" |
Beatriz Quinones-Colon, University of Puerto Rico - "Engineering Biopolymeric Nanostructured Fibers and Films for Tissue Engineering Applications" | Angana Kharge, Scientist, Integra Life Sciences- Development of a Porcine Model of Delayed Wound Healing | James Posillico, Chairman and CEO, Polymer Therapeutics, LLC - "Broad-Spectrum Anti-infective Biomaterials With Osteogenic Activity" | ||||
| 4:30 - 4:45 pm |
Special Keynote: Chun Li, MD Anderson - "Nano Solutions for Overcoming Stromal Barriers in Pancreatic Cancer" |
Jay C. Sy, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University "The Injectrode: A Next Generation Probe for Chronic Neural Interfaces" | Philip Brudnicki, Columbia University "Bioactive Ceramic-Polymer Composites Regulate Mineralization Potential of Periodontal Ligament Derived Cells" | Christopher Baker, Brown University- "Morphological Manipulation of poly-L-Lactic Acid" | ||||
| 4:45 - 5:00 pm | Corina White, Rutgers University - "The Effects of Scaffold Rigidity on Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells" | Tyler Hoffman Rutgers University "Antimicrobial Peptides in Human Cryopreserved Viable Amniotic Membrane" | Robert Latour, Mc-Queen-Quattlebaum Professor Clemson University - "Design Optimization of PEG-Based Peptide-Conjugated Hydrogels Through Multiscale Molecular Modeling Methods" | |||||
| 5:30 - 6:30 pm RECEPTION |
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| Symposium / Tue Oct 25 |
| PARALLEL SESSION A |
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| 9:00 - 10:15am | 5A Biofabrication (Session Chair Wei Sun) |
6A Neuro Engineering |
7A Drug Delivery (Session Chair Mirka El Fray) |
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| 9:00 - 9:25 am |
Keynote by: Ibrahim Ozbolat, Associate Professor, Penn State University, "Bioprinting of Tissues and Organs: From Perfusable Tissues to In Situ Printing" |
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Keynote by: Narendra Vyavahare, Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor Clemson University - "Targeting Nanoparticles to Degenerated Elastin: A New Pathway To Deliver Drugs for Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Diseases" |
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| 9:25 - 9:50 am | David Shreiber, Professor, Rutgers University, "Free-Form Fabrication of a Thermo-reversible, Methacrylated Collagen for Regenerative Medicine" | Omar Khan, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "An Implantable Elastic Multielectrode Array for Muscle Conditioning and Epimysial Recording During Peripheral Nerve Repair" | Curtis Cetrulo, Assistant Professor, Harvard University - "Application of Topical FK506-TyroSpheresTM to Vascularized Composite Allografts in a Non-Human Primate Model" | |
| 9:50 - 10:15 am | Thanh D. Nguyen, Assistant Professor, University of Conneticut, "A novel three-dimensional microfabrication method of polymeric biomaterials for controlled drug delivery" | Rick Cohen, Assistant Research Professor - Rutgers University "Simplified Dopaminergic Neuron and Cardiac Differentiation of Single Episome Reprogrammed Fibroblasts" | Wilson S. Meng, Associate Professor, Duquesne University - "Antibody-Armed In Situ-Forming Film for Attenuating allo-T Cell Response in a Murine Skin Transplant Model" | |
| 10:15 - 11:10 am POSTER SESSION: Full Details Here | ||||
| PARALLEL SESSION B |
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| 11:10 am - 11:55 am | 5B Biofabrication (Session Chair Wei Sun) |
6B Neuro Engineering |
7B Drug and Gene Delivery (Session Chair Mirka El Fray) |
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| 11:00 - 11:25 am |
Keynote by: Warren C. Ruder, Assistant Professor Virginia Polytechnic and State University "Engineered Cells Direct Cell-free Synthetic Biology via Programmable Microparticles" |
Keynote by: Alex A. Aimetti, Senior Director - Medical Evaluation and Scientific Support InVivo Therapeutics Corporation, "Translation of Biomaterial-based Therapies for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury: The Neuro-Spinal Scaffold™ and Bioengineered Neural Trails" |
Keynote by: Marko Boskov, University of Munich, "Gene Therapy with a Modified SNIM-RNA combined with Stem Cell Therapy as Alternative to Gene Trnsfer with DNA or Recombinant Protein in Bone Regeneration" |
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| 11:25 am - 11:40 pm | Lesley W. Chow, Assistant Professor, Lehigh University - "Modular Materials for Fabricating Hierarchical Scaffolds" | Reva M. Street, Drexel University "Growth of Spinal Cord Explants on Electrospun Polyethylenimine-blended Fibers" | Steven Lu, Senior Scientist, Secant Group - "Innate Antibacterial Activity of Bioelastomer Poly(glycerol sebacate)" | |
| 11:40 - 11:55 am | Verida J. Leandre, Brown University- "Encapsulated Proteins Recruit Progenitor Cell Populations Via Localized Delivery of Implanted Mesh Constructs" | Hilton Kaplan, Associate Director - NJCBM at Rutgers University, "Regeneration of Decellularized Neurovascular Bundles to Support Large-Scale Tissue Engineering and Hybrid Synthetic Scaffolds" | Mohammad Izadifar, University of Saskatchewan - "Core-Shell Polymeric Nanoparticles for Temporal Control of Growth Factor Release in Fibrin Cardiac Patch" | |
| 12:00 - 1:15 pm LUNCH | ||||
Closing Plenary Session: Innovative Directions in Biomaterials Research |
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| 1:15 - 1:45 pm | Pamela Yelick, Professor of Oral Pathology - Tufts University, "Regenerating Alveolar Bone and Teeth" |
| 1:45 - 2:15 pm | Prabhas Moghe, Distinguished Professor Biomedical Engineering - Rutgers University, "3D Scaffolds for Neuron Regrowth" |
| 2:15 - 2:45 pm | BREAK |
| 2:45 - 3:15 pm | Catherine K. Kuo, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics - University of Rochester "Embryonically Inspired Microenvironments for Tissue Regeneration" |
| 3:15 - 3:45 pm | William Welsh, Professor Department of Pharmacology - Rutgers University, "Power of Computational Modeling of Biomaterials" |
| 3:45 - 4:15 pm | Kacy Cullen, Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery - University of Pennsylvania, "Tissue Engineered Nerve Grafts Facilitate Regeneration and Promote Functional Recovery Following Major Nervous System Injury." |
| 4:15 - 4:45 pm | Joachim Kohn, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry - Rutgers University Concluding Remarks: "From Tissue Engineering to Synthetic Biology" |
