Technical Program
Technical Program for the 2022 BTM conference.
Please see below for the Technical Program. To view speaker abstracts, please click here.
| Start Time | End Time | |
| December 14, 2022 | All Eastern Standard Time | |
| Day 1 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 3:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Welcome & Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 9:05 AM | Opening Remarks by Chairs: Shrike Zhang, Harvard Univeristy & Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, University of Toronto |
| 9:05 AM | 11:25 AM | Tissue Engineering Chair: Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, University of Toronto & Juan M. Melero-Martin, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:05 AM | 9:50 AM | KEYNOTE: Recent Advances with Silk-Based Biomaterials & Technologies, David Kaplan, Tufts University |
| 9:50 AM | 10:15 AM | Multifactorial optimization of mechanobiological responses for stem cell bioprocess development, Craig Simmons, University of Toronto |
| 10:15 AM | 10:40 AM | Developing advanced biomaterials and devices for type 1 diabetes cell replacement therapies, Minglin Ma, Cornell University |
| 10:40 AM | 11:05 AM | Bioengineering vascular organoids via fate-determining transcription factors, Juan M. Melero-Martin, Harvard Medical School |
| 11:05 AM | 11:25 AM | Spatially Guided 3D Tissue Morphogenesis By Hydrogel Localization in Multicube Platform, Kasinan Suthiwanich, RIKEN |
| 11:25 AM | 12:25 PM | LUNCH |
| 12:25 PM | 2:50 PM | Translation Sesion Chair: Taci Pereira, 3D Systems Shrike Zhang, Harvard University |
| 12:25 PM | 12:30 PM | Introduction, Taci Pereira, 3D Systems |
| 12:30 PM | 1:15 PM | KEYNOTE: Microphysiological Systems: Tissue Chips for Drug Screening Program for Safety, Efficacy and Precision Medicine, Passley Hargrove-Grimes, NIH |
| 1:15 PM | 1:40 PM | Starting Biotech Companies, Tony Kulesa, Pillar Bio |
| 1:40 PM | 2:05 PM | Known Medicine: from a PhD thesis to a funded biotech startup, Andrea Mazzocchi, Known Medicine |
| 1:40 PM | 2:10 PM | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 2:10 PM | 2:30 PM | Robust Strategies for Generating Perfusable Microvasculature-on-a-Chip Models, Zhengpeng Wan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:30 PM | 2:50 PM | Application of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Airway Progenitors for Generation of Long Segment Tracheal Grafts, Golnaz Karoubi, University of Toronto |
| 2:50 PM | 4:50 PM | Poster Session |
| December 15, 2022 | ||
| Day 2 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 3:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Welcome & Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 11:25 AM | New Frontiers in Theranostics Session Chair: Shrike Zhang, Harvard Univeristy & Natalie Artzi, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:00 AM | 9:05 AM | Introduction, Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School & Natalie Artzi, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:05 AM | 9:50 AM | KEYNOTE: Cell-mediated Drug Delivery, Samir Mitragotri, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:50 AM | 10:15 AM | Advances in GI Drug Delivery, Giovanni Traverso, MIT |
| 10:15 AM | 10:40 AM | Biomaterials for immune modulation and biomarker sampling in skin interstitial fluid, Natalie Artzi, Harvard Medical School |
| 10:40 AM | 11:05 AM | Inflammation-responsive supramolecular gels for controlled drug delivery, Nitin Joshi, Harvard Medical School |
| 11:05 AM | 11:25 AM | Labeling and Tracking Dendritic Cells Using Magnetic Nanoparticles Tailored for Magnetic Particle Imaging, Bo Yu, University of Florida |
| 11:25 AM | 2:30 PM | Wearable and Implantable Bioelectronics Chair: Jia Liu, Harvard University & Shrike Zhang, Harvard Univeristy |
| 11:25 AM | 11:30 AM | Introduction, Jia Liu, Harvard University & Shrike Zhang, Harvard Univeristy |
| 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | KEYNOTE: Xuanhe Zhao, MIT |
| 12:15 PM | 1:15 PM | LUNCH |
| 1:15 PM | 1:40 PM | Automated Microfluidic Technology Platform for Membrane Based Biosensor Development, Shitanshu Devrani, Gothenburg University |
| 1:40 PM | 2:05 PM | Seamless integration of nanoelectronics with biology, Jia Liu, Harvard |
| 2:05 PM | 2:30 PM | Biology Meets Its Match, Canan Dagdeviren, MIT |
| 2:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Stem Cells and Cell Therapies Chairs: Sandra Engle, Biogen & Lesley Chow, Lehigh University |
| 2:30 PM | 2:35 PM | Introduction, Sandra Engle, Biogen & Lesley Chow, Lehigh University |
| 2:35 PM | 3:20 PM | KEYNOTE: Heart Regeneration With Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Michael Laflamme, University Health Network |
| 3:20 PM | 3:50 PM | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 3:50 PM | 4:15 PM | Directing Neurovascular Responses in Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration, Warren Grayson, Johns Hopkins University |
| 4:15 PM | 4:40 PM | |
