Biomedical Engineering

From Engineering Predictive Human Tissue Platforms to Advancing the Impact of Wisconsin Biomedical Engineering Salman R. Khetani, PhDProfessorAssociate Department HeadActing Associate Dean for Graduate StudiesDepartment of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois...

*Speaker Change Gene Therapy for Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases: RARE will get us there Wally Block, PhDProfessorDepartment of Biomedical EngineeringUW-Madison Rare monogenic neurological diseases affect about 0.5% of Americans at birth...

From Cellular Networks to Therapeutic Predictions: A Data-Driven Approach to Precision Medicine Shawn M. Gomez, EngScDProfessor and Associate Chair for ResearchCo-Executive Director, FastTaCS, NC TraCS InstituteLampe Joint Department of Biomedical...

Revolutionizing Immunotherapy: Bioengineered Immune Organs and Nanoscale Technologies Ankur Singh, PhDCarl Ring Family ProfessorGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and...

From Development to Repair: Using Skeletal Development Principles to Advance Stem Cell-Mediated Cartilage Regeneration Wan-Ju Li, PhD, FIORAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Orthopedics and RehabilitationUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract:Why does cartilage regeneration still...

How Serious Fun (and Mild Panic) Led Me from Academia to Venture Innovation Christopher Konop, PhDInnovation and Commercialization SpecialistIsthmus ProjectUW Health Abstract:Most scientific careers don’t follow a straight line—and mine...

Bench-to-Bedside Engineering of Precision Immunotherapy Paradigms with Focused Ultrasound Natasha Sheybani, PhDAssistant Professor of Biomedical EngineeringResearch Director at UVA Focused UltrasoundImmuno-Oncology (FUSION) CenterUniversity of Virginia Abstract:Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but significant limitations remain across solid tumor indications. This talk will highlight advances in the use of image-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) as a non-invasive, multi-pronged...

Expanding the optical bag of tricks for (neuro)biology Fabian Voigt, PhDPostdoctoral Researcher & Branco Weiss Fellow (2024-2029)Biolabs 2072Engert LaboratoryHarvard University Abstract:Seeing is believing and thus, optical imaging techniques are extremely useful to study brain structure and function. I will present several projects aimed at providing the neuroscience community with better imaging instrumentation: These range from...