Timeslot: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm
Room: Virtual
About
Maternal and fetal health are closely linked to long term health. Conditions such as preeclampsia can increase both a mother and child's risk for health complications including heart disease and high blood pressure later in life. Exposure to various environmental toxicants have been linked to increased risk of pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes and miscarriage. Biomaterials can play an important role in understanding and promoting maternal and fetal health. These materials can be used to achieve new models, treatments, and diagnostics for prenatal and maternal healthcare. This session will cover advances in this field, including, but not limited to, organ-on-a-chip approaches to drug toxicity screening, development of models of the maternal-fetal interface, treatments for pregnancy complication (e.g., preterm birth, preeclampsia, etc.), placental membranes, biomechanics during pregnancy, new fertility treatments, and fetal cell isolation
Moderators:
Christaina Bailey-Hytholt, PhD
David Martin, PhD
Abstracts
Abstracts will be available for download on April 20, 2021.
Biomaterials-based Strategies for Endogenous Tissue Regeneration - 2
Timeslot: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm
Room: Virtual
About
Large tissue defects are still challenging to be effectively repaired by using current methods. Instead of relying on a large number of exogenous cells and/or proteins-based tissue engineering approaches, the strategies that using biomaterials to promote tissue regeneration by activating and harnessing endogenous reparative cells and signaling pathways are more promising and translational. Interesting endogenous signaling pathways that contribute to tissue regeneration include but not limited to angiogenesis, inflammation, stem cell recruitment, and differentiation, etc. This session will focus on introducing the emerging concepts and strategies in the development of innovative biomaterials/drug/gene delivery/stem cell techniques for challenged tissue regeneration, e.g., cartilage, bone, teeth, skin, muscle, etc. Long term goal for this session is to develop new biomaterials-based regenerative treatments by using the body's innate ability through promoting the collaborations from the multidisciplinary filed.
Moderator:
Hongli Sun, PhD
Abstracts
Abstracts will be available for download on April 20, 2021.
Business Plan Competition
Timeslot: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm
About
Students and post docs: Medical technology requires more than just laboratory results to become a reality. Do you believe that your biomaterials-based research innovation has the potential to succeed in the medical device industry?
Put your skills to the test in this unique session designed to challenge you to consider the commercialization aspects of your research.
Individuals and groups (your choice) will be judged by experts from investing, industry, regulatory, and academia on the strength of their commercialization plans.
Prizes will be awarded to the top teams. To participate, submit an abstract that contains your Executive Summary, including information on your technology, the market, and the commercialization strategy.
Those selected will give a 10 minute pitch followed by Q&A "Shark Tank" style from judges.
Abstracts
Abstracts will be available for download on April 20, 2021.
Panel: Biomaterials Education and Research in the Time of COVID
Timeslot: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm
Room: Virtual
About
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a rapid shift to remote instruction, shuttered labs temporarily, and had severe economic impacts on University Research. The rapid adoption of online and remote learning tools has highlighted, as well as opportunities for educational innovation for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This panel will invite discussion of perspectives and suggestions from faculty, students, and the scientific community with a specific focus on three major areas: Instructional methods and remote delivery, Student experiences, and Mentoring adaptations.
Abstracts
Abstracts will be available for download on April 20, 2021.
Invited Speaker(s)
Supramolecular Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery, Imaging, and Immunoengineering
Timeslot: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm
Room: Virtual
About
Due to their versatility and diversity in materials properties, a wide range of biomedical applications have emerged in recent years using supramolecular nanomaterials. The bottom up approach to design functional objects at the nanoscale have been used to develop individual nanoparticles or to produce highly oriented materials for a growing number of applications including drug delivery, imaging, theranostics, vaccines, and immunotherapy. In addition, there are exciting opportunities for local therapeutic modulation. This session highlights recent advances in nanomaterials designs aimed to enhance the in vivo delivery of therapeutic or imaging payloads for a variety of diseases including those affecting the skin, gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts, cardiovascular system, cancer, and other diseased tissues.
Moderator:
Eunji Chun, PhD
Bret Ulery, PhD
Abstracts
Abstracts will be available for download on April 20, 2021.
Surface Modification of Biomaterials 1
Timeslot: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm
Track: Functional Biomaterials and Surfaces
Room: Virtual
About
In biomedical applications, the surface properties of biomaterials are critical. The surface of biomaterials determines the outcomes of biological-biomaterial interactions. Only certain surface properties can induce optimized cell interaction and adhesion thereby improving cell attachment and biocompatibility of the biomaterials. Various surface modification technologies have been developed and assessed to control the physicochemical interactions between biomaterials and the biological environment at the molecular, cellular, and tissue levels. This symposium aims to highlight the recent advances and challenges in surface modification technologies and fundamental understandings of the biomaterials-tissue interaction in orthopedic and other areas. This symposium will cover topics related to advanced surface modification methods that are well established and those that are still in the early stage of development, and applications of such methods to optimize surface chemistry, morphology, and structures, and discuss how such modifications may lead to the development of promising biomaterials and successful medical devices.
Moderators:
Guigen Zhang, PhD
Bingyun Li, PhD
Abstracts
Abstracts will be available for download on April 20, 2021.