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  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    1:15 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
    2nd WACBE-BMES Workshop: Strengthening Global Science Dialogue and Collaboration
    Location: Room 28E
    Session Chair: Bingmei Fu – City College of New York
    Speakers: Tejal Desai, Ph.D. – Brown University
    Organizer/Submitter: X. Edward Guo – Columbia University
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  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    1:15 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
    Physical Science of Cancer
    Location: Room 28D
    Organizer/Submitter: Stephanie I. Fraley, CMBE Past Chair and Awards Committee Co-Chair – University of California San Diego
    Session Chair: Monet Roberts – Virginia Tech
    Speakers: Jeannine Coburn, Associate Professor – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Speakers: Liz Wayne – University of Washington
    Speakers: Keyue Shen, PhD – University of Southern California
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  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    3:45 PM - 5:15 PM PDT
    Session Canceled - CRISPR-Based Global Health Technologies: Innovations for Accessible Diagnostics and Therapeutics
    Location: Room 23A
    Speakers: Mireille Kamariza – UCLA
    Organizer/Submitter: Mireille Kamariza – UCLA
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  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    3:45 PM - 5:15 PM PDT
    The 13th US-Korea Joint Workshop on Biomedical Engineering
    Location: Room 28E
    Organizer/Submitter: James Moon – University of Michigan
    Session Chair: James Moon – University of Michigan
    Speakers: Song Li, Ph.D. – UCLA
    Speakers: Jina Ko – University of Pennsylvania, Departments of Bioengineering and Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Speakers: Jennifer H. Shin – KAIST
    Session Chair: Young Bin Choy – Seoul National University
    Speakers: Young Bin Choy – Seoul National University
    Speakers: Ki Joo Pahk – Kyung Hee University
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    From Mechanobiology to Mechanomedicine
    Location: Room 28B
    Organizer/Submitter: Priscilla Hwang, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Session Chair: Priscilla Hwang, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Session Chair: Song Li, Ph.D. – UCLA
    Speakers: Dennis Discher – University of Pennsylvania
    Speakers: Quinton Smith – University of California, Irvine
    Speakers: Jacopo Ferruzzi – University of Texas at Dallas
    Speakers: Jun Chen, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    8:30 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
    Microfluidics to interrogate mechanobiology
    Location: Room 28B
    Presenting Author: Steven C. George, PhD;MD – University of California, Davis
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    NSF NRT Workshop on the Sustainable Development of Smart Biomedical Devices
    Location: Room 22
    Organizer/Submitter: W. Hong Yeo – Georgia Tech
    Session Chair: Karam Kim, PhD – Georgia Tech
    Session Chair: Hyunjoo Oh – Georgia Tech
    Speakers: Lewis Wheaton – Georgia Tech
    Speakers: Yiyue Luo – University of Washington
    Speakers: Josiah Hester – Georgia Tech
    Speakers: Yuhang Hu – Georgia Tech
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PDT
    Phagocytic Macrophages Use Coordinated Intrudopodia to Disrupt Solid Tumor Cohesion
    Location: Room 28B
    Presenting Author: Lawrence J. Dooling – University of Houston
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    9:15 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
    Coaxing Vasculature in Engineered Stem Cell Models
    Location: Room 28B
    Presenting Author: Quinton Smith – University of California, Irvine
    Primary Investigator: Quinton Smith – University of California, Irvine
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    9:30 AM - 9:45 AM PDT
    Biophysical Hallmarks of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: From Tissue Stiffening to Altered Epithelial Proliferation
    Location: Room 28B
    Presenting Author: Jacopo Ferruzzi – University of Texas at Dallas
    Primary Investigator: Jacopo Ferruzzi – University of Texas at Dallas
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    9:45 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Discovering Magnetoelasticity in Soft Matter for Bioelectronics
    Location: Room 28B
    Presenting Author: Jun Chen, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    DEBUT Challenge Project Presentations (NIBIB/VentureWell)
    Location: Room 22
    Session Chair: Bruce Tromberg – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
    Speakers: Bruce Tromberg – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
    Speakers: Jianming Li – VentureWell
    Organizer/Submitter: Dave Gutekunst – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Part I
    Location: Room 28C
    Organizer/Submitter: Edward Sander, PhD – University of Iowa
    Session Chair: Lauren Black – Tufts University
    Session Chair: Sarah Calve – University of Colorado Boulder
    Speakers: Liz Wayne – University of Washington
    Speakers: Mark Mondrinos – Tulane University
    Speakers: Samira Musah – Duke
    Speakers: Woojin Han – Mt Sinai
    Speakers: Bin Jiang – Northwestern
    Speakers: Sepideh Dolatshahi, PhD – University of Virginia
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    3:45 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
    Office Hours with Liz Wayne: A BMES Sponsored Podcast series
    Location: Exhibit Hall Stage
    Speakers: Liz Wayne – University of Washington
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  • Friday, Oct 10th
    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Part 2
    Location: Room 28C
    Session Chair: Sarah Calve – University of Colorado Boulder
    Session Chair: Lauren Black – Tufts University
    Speakers: Deva D. Chan, Ph.D. – Purdue University
    Speakers: MK Sewell-Loftin – University of Alabama Birmingham
    Speakers: Maria A. Gonzalez Porras – University of Texas San Antonio
    Speakers: Matthew R. Bersi, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis
    Speakers: Haogang Cai – New York University
    Organizer/Submitter: Edward Sander, PhD – University of Iowa
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  • Saturday, Oct 11th
    8:30 AM - 9:15 AM PDT
    Leveraging Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Advanced Computational Modeling in Biomedical Engineering
    Location: Room 22
    Session Chair: Nazanin Ahmadi – Brown University
    Speakers: Yixiang Deng – University of Delaware
    Organizer/Submitter: HE LI – University of Georgia
    Session Chair: Lu Lu – Yale University
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  • Saturday, Oct 11th
    9:15 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Nanomedicine for efficacious cancer treatment: how bioengineering technologies are turning an elusive dream into reality
    Location: Room 22
    Session Chair: Marty O'Toole, Ph.D. – University of Louisville
    Speakers: Marty O'Toole, Ph.D. – University of Louisville
    Speakers: Joseph Chen, PhD – University of Louisville
    Speakers: Dylan Goodin, Ph.D. – University of Louisville
    Organizer/Submitter: Hermann Frieboes, Ph.D. – University of Louisville
    Session Chair: Hermann Frieboes, Ph.D. – University of Louisville
    Speakers: Hermann Frieboes, Ph.D. – University of Louisville
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