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  • Saturday, October 11, 2025
  • Determining sex differences in cardiovascular diseases using biomaterials
  • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
    BMES Exhibit Hall Stage Presentations III
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutic Ultrasound (US)
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
    Featured Event
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Registration Badge Pickup
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Bioinspired and Biomaterials-based Micro/Nano Devices
    Track Chair: Molly Kozminsky – Iowa State University
    Track Chair: Onyema Osuagwu
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Biomaterials for Studying and Controlling Cell Behaviors
    Track Chair: Janeta Zoldan – The University of Texas at Austin
    Track Chair: MK Sewell-Loftin – University of Alabama Birmingham
    Track Chair: Ryan Stowers – UC Santa Barbara
    Track Chair: Ester Kwon – University of California, San Diego
    Session Chair: Susan Leggett, Ph.D – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Session Chair: Jon Scoucy
    Biomaterials
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Biomaterials Undergraduate Fire Talks
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Undergraduate Fire Talks
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Cardiac Regeneration 2
    Track Chair: Kareen LK Coulombe, PhD – Brown University
    Track Chair: Hoda Hatoum – Michigan Technological University
    Session Chair: Lakeshia Taite
    Session Chair: Neda Latifi – University of South Florida
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Cardiovascular Engineering Undergraduate Fire Talks
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    CMBE Undergraduate Fire Talks
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Drug Delivery Undergraduate Fire Talks
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Engineering Tools and Therapeutics for Targeted Therapy
    Track Chair: Aylin Acun, PhD – Widener University
    Track Chair: Cheemeng Tan – University of California, Davis
    Session Chair: Larry Dooling
    Session Chair: Jacob Schimelman, PhD – University of California San Diego
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Experiential Learning & Career Readiness
    Track Chair: Rebecca Scott – University of Oklahoma
    Track Chair: Olivia Coiado, Dr. – Washington State University
    Moderator: Charles Peak
    Moderator: Janine Hoelscher – Clemson University
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Immunomodulation
    Track Chair: Peter Yingxiao Wang
    Track Chair: Daniel Abebayehu, PhD – University of Virginia
    Session Chair: Allison M. Greaney, PhD – Yale University
    Session Chair: Keyue Shen – University of Southern California
    Immunoengineering
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Interventional Devices, Prosthetics, Robotics, and Assistive Technology
    Track Chair: Kiana Aran – University of California, San Diego
    Track Chair: Yongkuk Lee, PhD – Wichita State University
    Track Chair: Aijun Wang, Ph.D. – UC Davis
    Session Chair: Brent Winslow, PhD – Google
    Session Chair: Jimin Lee, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Mechanosensing in Cancer
    Track Chair: Priscilla Hwang – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Track Chair: Claire Robertson, PhD – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Adam Engler – University of California San Diego
    Cancer Technologies
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Multiscale Modeling and Simulations in Cardiopulmonary Systems
    Track Chair: Kristen Mills – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Session Chair: Reza Avaz
    Session Chair: Bryana N. Harris – University of Minnesota
    Biomechanics
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Neuroimaging
    Session Chair: Thomas Everett – Indiana University School of Medicine
    Session Chair: Su Yan – Pennsylvania State University
    Track Chair: Joon (Simon) Shim
    Track Chair: Mario Romero Ortega
    Track Chair: Nanyin Zhang, PhD – Penn State University
    Neural Engineering
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Novel Methods for Systems Biology
    Track Chair: Alexander Xu
    Track Chair: Megan McLean
    Session Chair: Siddharth Dey – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Session Chair: Jangwook P. Jung, PhD – Louisiana State University
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Photoacoustic and Optoacoustic Imaging (PAI)
    Session Chair: Lei Li
    Session Chair: Jesse Jokerst
    Track Chair: Stephen LaConte – Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, Roanoke, VA
    Track Chair: Junjie Yao – Duke University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Platform Sessions VII
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Protein and Vaccine delivery
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Barker, PhD – University of Tennessee
    Track Chair: Jyothi Menon – University of Rhode Island
    Session Chair: Rajarshi Chattaraj – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Session Chair: Rohan Ingrole
    Drug Delivery
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Sex Differences in Health and Disease
    Session Chair: Brian A. Aguado – University of California San Diego
    Session Chair: Caymen Novak, PhD – University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Track Chair: Mykel D. Green – Tulane University
    Women's Health
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases Undergraduate Fire Talks
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Tissue and Organ Biomanufacturing
    Track Chair: Shengjie Zhai – University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Track Chair: Brenda M. Ogle – University of Minnesota
    Biomanufacturing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Tissue Engineering for Regenerative Medicine and Translation II
    Track Chair: Chelsea M. Magin, PhD – University of Colorado, Denver | Anschutz
    Track Chair: Cathal John Kearney
    Session Chair: Jason Marvin, Ph.D. – AIMBE
    Session Chair: Ramya Prabhakar
    Session Chair: Neda Latifi – University of South Florida
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Tissue Engineering Models of Disease II
    Track Chair: Chelsea M. Magin, PhD – University of Colorado, Denver | Anschutz
    Track Chair: Cathal John Kearney
    Session Chair: Di Zhang, PhD – Yale University
    Session Chair: Jeongmin Hwang – University of Delware
    Tissue Engineering
  • 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM PDT
    Special Sessions VII
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Hear from the Experts: Applying to Medical School as a Biomedical Engineer
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Nanomedicine for efficacious cancer treatment: how bioengineering technologies are turning an elusive dream into reality
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Special Sessions VII
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology - Poster Session E
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Biomanufacturing - Poster Session E
    Biomanufacturing
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Biomaterials - Poster Session E
    Biomaterials
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Biomechanics - Poster Session E
    Biomechanics
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Biomedical Engineering Education - Poster Session E
    Biomedical Engineering Education
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation - Poster Session E
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Cancer Technologies - Poster Session E
    Cancer Technologies
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Cardiovascular Engineering - Poster Session E
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering - Poster Session E
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics - Poster Session E
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Drug Delivery - Poster Session E
    Drug Delivery
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Global Health Technologies - Posters
    Global Health Technologies
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Immunoengineering - Poster Session E
    Immunoengineering
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Nano and Micro Technologies - Poster Session E
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Neural Engineering - Poster Session E
    Neural Engineering
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering - Poster Session E
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Poster Session E
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Disease - Posters
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Tissue Engineering - Poster Session E
    Tissue Engineering
  • 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Women's Health - Poster Session E
    Women's Health
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    High School Poster Expo
    High School Poster Expo
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Refreshment Break
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Plenary Session - BMES Awards
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Lunch on Own
  • 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Meet the Faculty Candidates Forum
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Advances in Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases
    Track Chair: Orlando S. Hoilett, PhD – University of Cincinnati
    Track Chair: Anita Shukla, PhD – Brown University
    Session Chair: Maryam Moarefian, Maryam Moarefian, PhD – University of California Santa Cruz
    Session Chair: Atefe Alimirzaei, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Analysis of Cell Signaling
    Track Chair: Alexander Xu
    Track Chair: Megan McLean
    Session Chair: Sameer S. Bajikar – University of Virginia
    Session Chair: Hanieh Mazloom Farsibaf, PhD – UT Southwestern Medical Center
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Biomaterials-based Tissue on a Chip Models
    Track Chair: Janeta Zoldan – The University of Texas at Austin
    Track Chair: MK Sewell-Loftin – University of Alabama Birmingham
    Track Chair: Ryan Stowers – UC Santa Barbara
    Track Chair: Ester Kwon – University of California, San Diego
    Session Chair: Monica Moya
    Session Chair: Xun Wang, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Massachusetts General Hospital
    Biomaterials
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Cancer Drug Delivery
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Barker, PhD – University of Tennessee
    Track Chair: Jyothi Menon – University of Rhode Island
    Session Chair: Ali Salifu – Boston College
    Session Chair: Johnson V. John
    Drug Delivery
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Cardiovascular Devices 2
    Track Chair: Kareen LK Coulombe, PhD – Brown University
    Track Chair: Hoda Hatoum – Michigan Technological University
    Session Chair: Hoda Hatoum – Michigan Technological University
    Session Chair: Netanel Korin – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    ECM Dynamics in Cancer
    Track Chair: Priscilla Hwang – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Track Chair: Claire Robertson, PhD – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Alexander Buffonne
    Session Chair: Amit Patak
    Cancer Technologies
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Imaging Cancer
    Track Chair: Priscilla Hwang – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Track Chair: Claire Robertson, PhD – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Sangpil Yoon – University of Oklahoma
    Session Chair: Walter O'Dell, PhD – University of Florida
    Cancer Technologies
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Mechanotransduction and Inflammatory Signaling in Vascular Endothelium
    Track Chair: Kristen Mills – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Session Chair: Soham Ghosh – Colorado State University
    Session Chair: Olivia Boerman – Bucknell University
    Biomechanics
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Micro/Nano Technologies In Therapeutic Development
    Track Chair: Molly Kozminsky – Iowa State University
    Track Chair: Onyema Osuagwu
    Session Chair: Chris Puleo – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Session Chair: Sheng Tong – University of Kentucky
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Musculoskeletal Biology and Mechanics
    Session Chair: Alejandro Almarza
    Session Chair: Katherine Hixon – Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering
    Track Chair: Deva D. Chan, Ph.D. – Purdue University
    Track Chair: Whasil Lee, PhD – University of Rochester, NY
    Track Chair: Jessica Isaacs, PhD PE – Exponent, Inc.
    Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Neural & Glial Cell Engineering
    Session Chair: In Hong Yang – UNC, Charlotte
    Session Chair: Jonathan Zuidema
    Track Chair: Joon (Simon) Shim
    Track Chair: Mario Romero Ortega
    Track Chair: Nanyin Zhang, PhD – Penn State University
    Neural Engineering
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Platform Sessions VIII
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Point-of-Care Diagnostics
    Track Chair: Kevin J. McHugh, PhD – Rice University
    Track Chair: Scott Berry – University of Kentucky
    Session Chair: Xiaoguang Dong – Vanderbilt University
    Session Chair: Benjamin Casteneda
    Global Health Technologies
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Synthetic Biology and Genetic Engineering Toolkits
    Session Chair: Vivek Kumar, PhD – University of Houston
    Session Chair: Congyue Peng – Clemson University
    Track Chair: Aylin Acun, PhD – Widener University
    Track Chair: Cheemeng Tan – University of California, Davis
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    T Cell Therapeutics
    Cancer Technologies
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Therapeutic & Cell Delivery in Tissue Engineering
    Track Chair: Chelsea M. Magin, PhD – University of Colorado, Denver | Anschutz
    Track Chair: Cathal John Kearney
    Session Chair: MK Sewell-Loftin – University of Alabama Birmingham
    Session Chair: Chen Weitong
    Tissue Engineering
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutic Ultrasound (US)
    Session Chair: Pengfei Song, PhD – Duke University
    Track Chair: Stephen LaConte – Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, Roanoke, VA
    Track Chair: Junjie Yao – Duke University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Special Sessions VIII
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Special Event
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
    Special Event - Voices and Stories from LatinXinBME
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Analysis of Multi-Cellular and Spatial Systems
    Track Chair: Alexander Xu
    Track Chair: Megan McLean
    Session Chair: Joshua Francois
    Session Chair: Mark Chapman, PhD – University of San Diego
    Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Biomaterials for Immunoengineering II
    Track Chair: Janeta Zoldan – The University of Texas at Austin
    Track Chair: MK Sewell-Loftin – University of Alabama Birmingham
    Track Chair: Ryan Stowers – UC Santa Barbara
    Track Chair: Ester Kwon – University of California, San Diego
    Session Chair: Christopher Jewell – Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices/University of Maryland; Veterans Affairs MD Healthcare System/Department of Veterans Affairs
    Session Chair: Kolade Adebowale – UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
    Biomaterials
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Cancer Mechanobiology: Mechanics of Metastasis, Migration, and Invasion
    Track Chair: Kristen Mills – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Session Chair: Jian Zhang – University of Arkansas
    Session Chair: Quinton Smith – University of California, Irvine
    Biomechanics
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
    Track Chair: Kareen LK Coulombe, PhD – Brown University
    Track Chair: Hoda Hatoum – Michigan Technological University
    Session Chair: Megan L. McCain, PhD – University of Southern California
    Session Chair: Ho-Wook Jun, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Cardiovascular Engineering
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Lipid-based mRNA delivery
    Track Chair: Elizabeth Barker, PhD – University of Tennessee
    Track Chair: Jyothi Menon – University of Rhode Island
    Session Chair: Kuei-Chun Wang – Arizona State University
    Session Chair: Jacob Schimelman, PhD – University of California San Diego
    Drug Delivery
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Molecular Sensors and Nanodevices for Diagnostics, Imaging, and Therapeutics: Nucleic acids and nucleic acid technology
    Track Chair: Molly Kozminsky – Iowa State University
    Track Chair: Onyema Osuagwu
    Nano and Micro Technologies
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    MPS for Modeling Immunity
    Track Chair: Priscilla Hwang – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Track Chair: Claire Robertson, PhD – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Sarah Shelton, PhD – North Carolina State University & University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Session Chair: Zhengpeng Wan – Massachusetts Inst Technology - Cambridge, MA
    Session Chair: Sarah Shelton, PhD – North Carolina State University & University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Session Chair: Zhengpeng Wan – Massachusetts Inst Technology - Cambridge, MA
    Cancer Technologies
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Neurodegeneration & Hydrocephalus
    Session Chair: Bin Duan, PhD – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Session Chair: Raha Dastgheyb, PhD – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
    Track Chair: Joon (Simon) Shim
    Track Chair: Mario Romero Ortega
    Track Chair: Nanyin Zhang, PhD – Penn State University
    Neural Engineering
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Platform Sessions IX
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Point of Care and Mobile Devices
    Track Chair: Kiana Aran – University of California, San Diego
    Track Chair: Yongkuk Lee, PhD – Wichita State University
    Track Chair: Aijun Wang, Ph.D. – UC Davis
    Session Chair: Bhushan N. Kharbikar, PhD – University of California San Francisco
    Session Chair: Lin Zhang
    Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Stress Responses, Disease Modeling, and Therapeutic Insights
    Session Chair: Olivia Boerman – Bucknell University
    Session Chair: Duc‑Huy Nguyen
    Track Chair: Aylin Acun, PhD – Widener University
    Track Chair: Cheemeng Tan – University of California, Davis
    Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    X-ray Computed Tomography (CT)
    Track Chair: Stephen LaConte – Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, Roanoke, VA
    Track Chair: Junjie Yao – Duke University
    Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Special Sessions IX
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Workshop
    Workshops
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Workshop- Science Communications and Policy
    Workshops
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Featured Event
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Special Event
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Special Event - BMES Robert A. Pritzker Awardee Roundtable
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
    Break- Dinner on Own
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
    Saturday Conference Keynote