Featured Speakers

Biomaterials / Drug Delivery

Sarah Heilshorn, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University
Stem-Cell Protective Biomaterials to Improve Transplantation Viability

Andrea Kasko, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UCLA
Controlled release of therapeutics and cells from hydrogel depots using light

Biomechanics / Mechanobiology

Adam Engler, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UC San Diego
More than a ‘feeling’: how cell mechanotransduction regulates stem cell lineage

Robert O. Ritchie, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
Biological Degradation of the Hierarchical Structure and Fracture Properties of Human Bone with Aging and Disease

BioMEMS / Instrumentation

Abe Lee, Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, UC Irvine
Large-Scale Droplet Microfluidics: from Digital Biology to Targeted Therapy

Alex Revzin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis
Miniature Biosensors for Local Analysis of Cell Function

Imaging

Kathy Ferrara, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis
Image-guided nanodelivery

Shreyas Vasanawala, Associate Professor of Radiology, Stanford University Medical School
Healing the Heart with Injectable Biomaterials

Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering

Karen Christman, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UC San Diego
Healing the Heart with Injectable Biomaterials

Zev Gartner, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF
Emergent behaviors in 3D epithelial tissues prepared by programmed assembly

Synthetic Biology / Systems Biology / Computational Biology / Genomics

Patsy Babbitt, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
How nature engineers enzymes for new functions