Technical Program

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2009 NEBEC Program
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FRIDAY, April 3, 2009

  • FRIDAY'S VENUE
 MERCK RESEARCH LABS
 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur
 Boston, MA 021158:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Registration
     
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Workshop on Wearable Technology in Medicine
    Paolo Bonato
    Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
    Wearable technology is an emerging discipline focused on technology for long-term monitoring of patients with chronic conditions requiring periodic or continuous monitoring.  The objective of this workshop is to provide attendees with an overview on recent developments in body sensor networks and e-textile technologies, two key elements of wearable systems.  In addition, the workshop will provide examples of emerging medical applications of wearable systems.
     
  • 8:30 AM – 8:40 AM
    Introduction to the Workshop
     
  • 8:40 AM – 9:30 AM
    Steven M Ayer and Benjamin Kuris, Shimmer Research
    Wireless Sensing Platforms for Medical Research
     
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
    Prof. Ary L. Goldberger, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
    Center, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
    "Cardiovascular Applications of Wearable Technology"
     
  • 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
    Coffee Break
     
  • 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM
    Mike Dempsey, Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology
    "Advances in Wearable Respiration Monitoring"
     
  • 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM
    Prof. Nathaniel Sims, Dept. of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts
    General Hospital
    "Monitoring Vital Signs: What Are the Priorities?
     
  • 11:20 AM – 11:50 AM
    Paolo Bonato
    "Wearable Technology in NeuroRehabilitation"
     
  • 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM
    Concluding Remarks
     
  • 12:00-1:30 PM Lunch Break (Longwood area - please make your own arrangements)
     
  • 1:30-2:00 PM John Dellapa - Mintz Levin – "University Licensing"
     
  • 2:00-2:30 PM Nadrian C. Seeman
    Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry
    Department of Chemistry
    New York University
    "Structural DNA Nanotechnology"
     
  • 2:30-3:00 PM David Mooney
    Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering
    Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science
    "Materials to program cells in situ"
     
  • 3:00-3:30 PM – Coffee Break
     
  • 3:30-5:00 PM – BioMEMS Workshop
    Ali Khademhosseini and Utkan Demirci
    HST Center for Biomedical Engineering at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Bio-MEMs is an emerging field that employs micro/nanoscale approaches to provide pathways to solutions in biology and medicine.  The goal of this workshop is to bring experts together in the field to initiate a discussion on the status and vision of the field as it is evolving with recent breakthroughs.

       •
    Prof. Utkan Demirci, Harvard-MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital
         "Microfluidics for biomedical applications"

       •
    Prof. Mehmet Dokmeci, Northeastern University "Parylene Stencils
         for patterning biomolecules at the microscale"

       •
    Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, Draper Laboratory "Biodegradable microfluidics
         for vascularized tissues"

    Each speaker will give a broad overview of the field in 25 min with an additional 5 min of discussions.
     
  • 5:00 – 6:00 PM – Reception with hors d'oeuvres
     
  • 6:00-7:00 PM- PLENARY SPEAKER
    W. Mark Saltzman
    Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Yale University Department
    "Polymeric Systems for Immunotherapy"

SATURDAY, April 4, 2009

  • SATURDAY'S VENUE
 Joseph B. Martin Conf. Ctr.
 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
 Boston, MA 021157:30 AM–4:30 PM - Registration and Exhibition
     
  • 7:30 PM OPENING REMARKS
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
    Jeff Karp
    Chair, NEBEC 2009
     
  • 8:00 AM – PLENARY SPEAKER (30 min.)
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
    Sangeeta N. Bhatia
    Harvard-MIT HST
    Brigham & Women's Hospital and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
    "Multifunctional Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy"
     
  • 8:30 AM - PLENARY SPEAKER (30 min.)
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
    David Kaplan
    Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Tufts University
    "Silk Based Biomaterials"


    SESSION A1 – Nanotechnology based Therapeutics and Diagnostics
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
  • 9:15 AM – Darrell Irvine
    Associate Professor
    Department of Biological Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "Cell Penetrating Nanoparticles"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    9:35 AM – Praveen K Vemula
    HST
    "Enzyme Responsive Acetaminophen Hydrogels"
  • 9:50 AM – Riaz Gillani
    Brown University
    "ZrO2 Nano-additives to Bone Cement Increase Osteoblast Adhesion and Proliferation"
  • 10:05 AM – Suresh Anil Kumar
    McGill
    "Biosynthesis, Separation and Conjugation of Gold Nanoparticles to Doxorubicin for Cellular Uptake and Toxicity"
  • 10:20 AM – Tom Webster
    Associate Professor of Engineering
    Brown University
    "Nanostructured Materials for Tissue Engineering"


    SESSION A2 – Technologies for Global Health
    (3rd floor rotunda)
  • 9:15 AM – Shiladitya Sengupta
    Assistant Professor
    HST Center for Biomedical Engineering at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
    "Advanced Drug Delivery Technologies for Global Health"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    9:35 AM – Nicolas C. Rivron
    University of Twente
    "Microfabrication of Shaped mm-Scale Tissues to Study Vascular Development"
  • 9:50 AM – Shannon L. Faley
    University of Glasgow
    "Pachinko Biology: Gambling on Single Cells"
  • 10:05 AM – Soumitra Choudhary
    Umass Amherst
    "Hydrophobically Modified Alginate for Drug Delivery Systems"
  • 10:20 AM – Utkan Demirci
    Assistant Professor
    HST Center for Biomedical Engineering at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
    "CD4 based microchips for rapid detection of HIV"
     
  • 11:00 AM - PLENARY SPEAKER (30 min.)
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
    Klaudyne Hong
    Johnson & Johnson
    Stroke Team Leader
    "Cell Therapy for Neurorestoration Following Stroke"


    SESSION B1 – Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
  • 11:30 AM – Catherine K. Kuo
    Assistant Professor
    Tufts – Department of Biomedical Engineering
    "Enhancing Tenogenesis for Tissue Engineering"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    11:50 AM – Nathan Zamarripa
    Tufts
    "Novel Biomimetic Scaffolds for Tendon and Ligament Tissue Engineering"
  • 12:05 PM – Kshama Doshi
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    "Direct Cell Seeding and Culture on Collagen-Coated Silicone Mandrels to Generate Vascular Tissue Tubes"
  • 12:20 PM – Yupeng Chen
    Brown University
    "Self-Assembling Helical Rosette Nanotubes for Cartilage Tissue Engineering"
  • 12:35 PM – Frederick J. Schoen
    Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology 
    Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
    "Heart valve biomaterials: Challenges and trends"


    SESSION B2 – Integrated BioMechanical Systems
    (3rd floor rotunda)
  • 11:30 AM – Krystyn Van Vliet
    Thomas Lord Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "Probing Cell Substrate Interactions with AFM"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    11:50 AM – Anita Shukla
    MIT
    "Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery From Degradable Polymer Thin Films"
  • 12:05 PM – Alexander Bick
    HST
    "Fabrication of Microchannels in Methacrylated Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels"
  • 12:20 PM – Kevin E. Knockenhauer
    Stony Brook
    "Confirmation of Protective Antigen Functionality in an Electrospun, Nanofibrous Membrane"
  • 12:35 PM – George John
    Associate Professor of Chemistry
    City College of New York
    "Green Manufacturing of Anti-microbial Paints from Vegetable Oil"
     
  • 1:00–2:00 PM – Break: BOX LUNCH, POSTER SESSION #1 AND EXHIBITION
    (7-53, 56-108a, 110-113, 217)
    (2nd & 3rd floor lobby)


    SESSION C1 – Advanced Biomedical Imaging Technologies
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
  • 2:00 PM – Charles Lin
    Associate Professor
    Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School
    "Advanced Imaging of vasculature and tissue microenvironments"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    2:15 PM – Sangjun Moon
    HST
    "Integrating Microfluidics and Lensless Imaging for Point-of-Care Testing"
  • 2:30 PM – Kerry Lee Andken
    Boston University
    "Optical Monitoring of Tumor Angiogenesis"
  • 2:45 PM – Raj S. Jaswal
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    "Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Neural Plasticity in Visual Dysfunction"
  • 3:00 PM – Ed Gullans
    The College of New Jersey
    "Design of a Dynamic Heart Phantom for Magnetic Resonance Imaging"
  • 3:15 PM – Anik Duttaroy
    University of Maryland
    "High-resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (0CT) Imaging of Human Kidney Ex Vivo"
  • 3:30 PM – Mehmet Fatih Yanik
    Assistant professor
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "High-throughput on-chip small-animal screening for in vivo genetic/compound
    discoveries in neural regeneration"


    SESSION C2 – Emerging Technologies in Bioengineering
    (3rd floor rotunda)
  • 2:00 PM – Ali Khademhosseini
    Assistant Professor
    HST Center for Biomedical Engineering at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
    "Self-Assembly of Living Legos"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    2:15 PM – Jungju Kim
    Korea University Medical College
    "Bone Regeneration Using MMP Sensitive-Hyaluronic Acid Based Hydrogels"
  • 2:30 PM – Haley Fotowat
    Baylor College of Medicine
    "Measuring Neutral Correlates of Insect Escape Behaviors Using a Miniature Telemetry System"
  • 2:45 PM – Benjamin P. Corgier
    McGill University
    "Microfabricated Electrochemical Probe for the Rapid Detection of Proteins Released by Cells"
  • 3:00 PM – Paul E. Gianella
    Rutgers
    "STAT3 Silencing for Enhanced Sensitivity of Malignant Glioma Cells to Carmustine"
  • 3:15 PM – Fulden Buyukozturk
    Northeastern
    "Effect of Emulsion Based Drug Delivery Systems on Rate of Drug Release and Intestinal Permeability Enhancement"
  • 3:30 PM – Jason Burdick
    Assistant Professor
    University of Pennsylvania
    "Electrospun Elastomers for Tissue Reconstruction"
     
  • 4:00 – 4:30 PM
    (1st floor amphitheatre)
    Keynote Address:
    Semahat S. Demir
    Program Director for Biomedical Engineering at NSF
    "NSF Funding Opportunities for Biomedical Research"
     
  • 4:35 – 5:30 PM Break: POSTER SESSION #2
    (108b, 114-185, 208a, 215, 218, 241)
    (2nd & 3rd floor lobby)
     
  • 5:30 – 6:25 PM POSTER SESSION #3, EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION
    (54, 108c, 186-208b, 212, 216, 219-239, 242-396)
    (2nd & 3rd floor lobby)
     
  • 6:30 PM
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
    Keynote Address:
    Mehmet Toner
    Professor of Surgery
    Harvard MIT Division of Health Science and Technology
    "Diagnostics for Circulating Tumor Cells"

SUNDAY, April 5, 2009

  • SUNDAY'S VENUE
 Joseph B. Martin Conf. Ctr.
 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
 Boston, MA 021157:30-11:00 AM - Registration and Exhibition
     
  • 7:45 AM – PLENARY SPEAKER (30 min.)
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
    Howard Green
    Harvard
    Department of Cell Biology 
    "The Birth of Cell Therapy"
     
  • 8:30 AM – PLENARY SPEAKER (30 min.)
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
    Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
    Columbia University
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
    "Engineering Tissues for Therapeutic use"


    SESSION D1 – Emerging Technologies in Bioengineering
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
  • 9:15 AM – Linda Griffith
    Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "TBD"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    9:35 AM – Xiaoyu Liu
    University of Pittsburgh
    "Wireless Power Transfer System Design for Implanted and Worn Devices"
  • 9:50 AM – Waren C. Chen
    National Cheng Kung University
    "The Influence of Surface Morphology and Rigidity of the Substrata on Cell Motility"
  • 10:05 AM – Brooke M. Odle
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    "Usability of an Adaptable Video Game Platform for Children with Cerebral Palsy"
  • 10:20 AM - Mohammad Matinfar
    Johns Hopkins
    "Nerve Tensiometer for Spondyloptosis Surgery"
  • 10:35 AM - Tylor Bernard
    Stevens Institute of Technology
    "An Early Detection System for Foot Ulceration in Diabetic Patients"

    SESSION D2 – Stem Cell Based Therapeutics
    (3rd floor rotunda)
  • 9:15 AM – Dan Anderson
    David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "Combinatorial Development of Biomaterials for Cell Therapy"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    9:35 AM – Karen Shu
    MIT
    "Chondrogenic Differentiation of Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Embryonic Stem Cells"
  • 9:50 AM – Alwin M.D. Wan
    Cornell
    "Electrical Control of Cell Density and Morphology on Conducting Polymer Surfaces"
  • 10:05 AM – Juan M. Taboas
    NIAMS
    "Constitutive Bcl-2 Over-expression Triggers an Anabolic Response in Chondrocytes, with Partial Abatement of IL-1¥ Catabolic Effects"
  • 10:20 AM - Debanjan Sarkar
    HST
    "Cell Surface Conjugation of Sialyl Lewis X Induces a Rolling Response for Mesenchymal Stem Cells"
  • 10:35 AM - Danielle Green
    Stony Brook
    "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Facilitated Photoacoustic Stimulation of Marrow Stromal Cells Towards Osteoblasts"
     
  • 10:50 – 11:10 AM Break: EXHIBITION


    SESSION E1 – Bioinstrumentation
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
  • 11:10 AM –  Rohit Karnik
    Assistant Professor
    Mechanical Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "Microfluidic Systems for Single Molecule Detection"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    11:30 AM – Haseeb Ali
    Worcester Polytech Institute
    "Machine to Dynamically Condition Tissue Engineered Vasculature"
  • 11:45 AM – Javad Rafiee
    Rensselaer Polytech
    "Biosignals: PsychoPhysio-Signal Processing Concept"
  • 12:00 PM – Crystal Kania
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    "Motor Learning Discerning Progressive Lens Acceptability in Presbyopes"
  • 12:15 PM – Mohamed Elgendi
    Charles Darwin University
    "Recognition of T Waves in ECG Signals"
  • 12:30 PM - Matthias Pumberger
    Mayo Clinic
    "Effect of Electrical Charge on Chondrocyte Attachment"


    SESSION E2 – New Paradigms in Bioengineering
    (3rd floor rotunda)
  • 11:10 AM – Michael Strano
    Associate Professor
    Chemical Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "Single biomolecule detection with single walled carbon nanotubes: the case
    of EGFR signaling"
  • ALL TALKS:
    8 min. - speaking
    2 min. - questions
    5 min. - travel

    11:30 AM – Yee-Shuan Lee
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    "An Electroactive Conduit for Spinal Cord Injury Repair"
  • 11:45 AM – Henry Cheng
    University of Hawaii at Manoa
    "Disposable CD Electrodes for DNA-based Detection of Ralstonia solanacearum"
  • 12:00 PM – Shyamal Patel
    Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital – HMS
    "Detecting Epileptic Seizures Using Wearable Sensors"
  • 12:15 PM – Lee Ouyang
    Johns Hopkins University
    "Development of a Novel Drainage Device for Glaucoma Surgeries"
    12:30 PM -
    John R. Feick
    University of New Hampshire
    "A "Sheltered Website" Framework Concept for Assistive Technology Software"
     
  • 12:45 PM – Short box lunch
     
  • 1:15-1:45PM Keynote Address
    (ground floor amphitheatre)
    Semahat S. Demir
    Program Director for Biomedical Engineering at NSF
    "Inspiring the next generation of Bioengineering Leaders"
     
  • 1:45 PM – Announcement of Awards and Presentation by Dr. Semahat Demir
     
  • Adjournment of the 2009 NEBEC


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