Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Multiscale and Multifunctional Biomaterials 2

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Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Multiscale and Multifunctional Biomaterials: The ability to engineer biomaterials at the molecular, micro and macro scales provides new opportunities to design and fabricate multiscale systems that can interact with cells and tissues by integrating physical, mechanical and chemical mechanisms. This session welcomes submissions focused on new design strategies for these types of biomaterials, novel fabrication approaches from the nano to micro to macro scales, and methods used to characterize cell and tissue response.

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Panel Discussion: Ethical Challenges and Issues in Biomaterials Research, Development and Practice

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*BTI* Commercialization of Biomaterials and Medical Products

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Commercialization of Biomaterials and Medical Products: The presentations in this symposium highlight recent advances and challenges in commercialization of biomaterials and medical devices from innovation to protection of intellectual property, fund raising mechanisms for product research and development, regulatory process for technical and clinical evaluation of biomaterials, and business models for commercialization of biomedical devices. This symposium covers fundamental concepts in commercialization of medical devices as well as the development and commercialization of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery.

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Thought Leader Symposium - Anna Belu, PhD & Nathan Lockwood, PhD: Industrial applications of biosurface modification and analysis

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This session will provide a broad overview of coating and modification technologies currently being used in the medical device industry to control the surface of medical devices. It will also address the critical need to characterize and understand the materials properties at the surface of medical devices. The properties and the resulting performance of medical devices are largely controlled by the bulk of the material, however, it is the surfaces of medical device materials that dominate the interaction between the device and the body. The speakers, all from industry, will give examples of surface modification to enhance the performance of the devices, e.g. affect the biological response, prevent infection, enhance lubricity. The speakers will also address the safety and regulatory aspects of medical device surface modification, and tools required for nanoscale characterization of devices.

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Acellular Biomaterials for Myocardial Repair 2

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Acellular biomaterials for myocardial repair: Using biomaterials without exogenous cells for myocardial repair has attracted great attention in the past several years largely due to their high translational potential. These biomaterials are designed to possess one or more of the following functions: provide mechanical support to the damaged hearts, prevent cardiac extracellular matrix from degradation by upregulated MMPs, recruit endogenous cells for regeneration, stimulate vascularization in the infarcted area, control inflammation to promote survival of cardiac cells, and decrease cardiac fibrosis. These biomaterials include injectable hydrogels, microspheres, nanoparticles, and 3D scaffolds. The injectable hydrogels, microspheres, and nanoparticles can be delivered to the infarcted hearts by localized injection after open chest surgery, catheter-based injection, or intravenous injection. Acellular 3D scaffolds can be patched on the infarcted heart surface. The biomaterials alone or in combination with drugs, genes, peptides, and growth factors have been used to promote cardiac repair. This symposium will allow presenters to share their current advances in using acellular biomaterials for cardiac repair.

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Advances in Antimicrobial Biomaterials

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Advances in Antimicrobial Biomaterials: Antimicrobial resistance and lack in development of new classes of antimicrobial therapeutics have made it increasingly difficult to treat microbial infections. There is an immediate need to engineer advanced antimicrobial therapeutics, delivery systems, and materials that can rapidly and effectively treat infections, while helping to control the spread of resistance. This session will focus on the development and application of these advanced antimicrobial biomaterials targeting bacterial, fungal, viral, and biofilm-associated infections. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: antimicrobial surfaces and device coatings, novel antimicrobial molecules and macromolecules, antimicrobial nano- and micro-particles, and triggered, targeted, and responsive antimicrobial delivery systems. Research in the design, synthesis, characterization, testing, and translation of these antimicrobial materials will be discussed.

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Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering 2

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Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering: Regenerative engineering aims to develop functional, bioactive, and instructive biomaterials for regeneration of damaged or injured tissues. Bioactivity can be engineered into biomaterials by functionalization with proteins, peptides, small molecules as well as by biophysical cues such as surface topography or alignment. This symposium will highlight recent trends in development of bioactive biomaterials that play active role in controlling cellular behaviors such as growth, alignment and differentiation. We will include different classes of biomaterials such as proteins, polysaccharides, synthetic polymers, fibers, metals, ceramics, and hydrogels for applications in regenerative tissue engineering. Translational strategies for taking these biomaterials from ‘Bench to Bedside’ will also be discussed during the symposium.

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Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Delivery 3

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Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Delivery: Controlled release approaches have the potential to effectively treat a variety of medical conditions, while avoiding complications such as off-site toxicity and drug-resistance. Approaches can include localized, depot-based methods as well as targeted, systemic treatments. Controlled drug delivery can result from affinity interactions, bond cleavage, reservoir or diffusion-based control, and/or stimulus-responsive methodologies. This session will focus on the development of these drug delivery systems, which include nano and microparticles, hydrogels, scaffolds, and thin films, for applications including but not limited to regenerative medicine/tissue engineering, cancer treatments, microbial infections, autoimmune diseases, etc.

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