Seminar

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 Chicago Abstract:The convergence of patient-specific human cell sources, microengineering, and data science is accelerating the adoption of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) that reduce reliance on...

*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 and are estimated to account for up to 40% of the workload in hospital pediatric practice. Current drug delivery methods struggle to overcome the Blood...