Session Organizers
The Society For Biomaterials would like to thank the numerous individuals who have worked to create each session, workshop and panel.
Session Organizers
Advances and Translation of Self-Assembly Soft Biomaterials
- Bingyun Li, Yunqing Kang
Applied Biomaterials for Microphysiological Systems
- Daniel Harrington, Scott Wood
Bioactive Materials for Hard and/or Soft Tissue Regeneration
- Robert Horowitz
Biofunctionalized Biomaterial Surfaces for Cellular and Tissue Engineering
- Rui Reis
Bioinspired Approaches to Supramolecular Biomaterials
- Gregory Hudalla, Felipe Quiroz
BioInterfaces
- Program Chair, Nathan Gallant; Chair, Felipe G. Quiroz; Vice-Chair, Erik Dreaden; Secretary/Treasurer, Jouha Min
Biomaterial-Associated Infection: Focusing on the Biomaterial, Host, Pathogen, or All?
- C Li, Jessica Jennings, Malcom Xing
Biomaterial-Based in Vitro Cancer/Tumor Models for Drug Screening and Diagnostics
- Sara Pedron Haba, Silviya Zustiak, Daniel Harrington
Biomaterials and Medical Products Commercialization (SIG)
- Program Chair, Subramanian Gunasekaran; Chair, Stephanie Steichen; Vice-Chair, Eric Sussman; Secretary/Treasurer, Bob Hastings
Biomaterials Approaches to Address Health and Healthcare Disparities
- Ana Porras, Olivia Lanier, Mykel Green
Biomaterials Education (SIG)
- Program Chair, Scott Wood; Chair, Cheryl Gomillion; VIce-Chair, Daniel Alge; Secretary/Treasurer, Amber Jennings
Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Regeneration
- Astha Khanna
Biomaterials for Cell Therapy
- Silviya Zustiak, Era Jain
Biomaterials for Cultivated Meat
- Shulamit Levenberg
Biomaterials for the Lungs
- Ruogang Zhao, Claudia Loebel, Chelsea Magin
Biomaterials for Modeling the Heart to Study Disease and Therapies in Vitro
- Zhen Ma, Nathaniel Huebsch, Jessica Gluck
Biomaterials for Organoids
- Qun Wang, Ying Mei, Sarah Heilshorn
Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering
- Gulden Camci-Unal, Qun Wang, Ngan Huang
Biomaterials for Women's Health
- Brendan Harley, Christina Bailey-Hytholt, Ariella Shikanov
Biomaterials in Engineering the Tumor Immune Microenvironment
- Shreya Raghavan, Vinay Abhyankar, Chase Cornelison
Biomaterials Systems and Devices for Hemostasis and Wound Care
- Ashley Brown, Anirban Sen Gupta, Gulden Camci-Unal
Biomaterials to Engineer Tissue Morphodynamics
- Brendon Baker, Claudia Loebel
Biomaterial-Tissue Interaction (SIG)
- Program Chair, Rene Olivares-Navarrete; Chair, Antonio Merolli, Vice-Chair, Omid Veiseh; Secretary/Treasurer, Sunita Ho
Biophysical Strategies for Regulation of Cellular Microenvironments
- Scott Wood, Tugba Ozdemir
Bioprinting Vascularized Tissue Constructs
- Shulamit Levenberg
Black and LatinX Underrepresented Voices in Biomaterials Science
- Ana Maria Porras, Brian Aguado, Santiago Correa
Cancer Immunotherapy
- Hua Wang, Nisarg Shah, Luo Gu
Cardiovascular Biomaterials (SIG)
- Program Chair, Yi Hong; Chair, Ngan Huang; Vice-Chair, LaShan Simpson; Secretary/Treasurer, Chris Bashur
Cardiovascular Manufacturing
- Yi Hong, Ngan Huang
Cell Encapsulation and Digital Assembly for Basic and Applied Biomedicine
- Liheng Cai, Jae-Won Shin, Chris Highley
Challenges and Opportunities in Translating Emerging Biomaterials Technologies Amid Papers, Patients, and Practice
- Kenneth Sims, Christine Knabe-Ducheyne, Nassir Mokarram
Characterization of PEG Hydrogel Properties and the Effect of Ligands on Chondrogenesis for Articular Cartilage Tissue Formation
- Luiza DaMotta, Reginald Hammond, Ben Allen
Computational Approaches for Biomaterial Design
- Marian Hettiaratchi, Gulden Camci-Unal, Ngan Huang
Computationally Driven Biomaterials and Machine Learning
- Jason Guo, Adam Gormley
Dental/Craniofacial Biomaterials (SIG)
- Program Chair, Xiaohua Liu; Chair, Kurt Kasper; Vice-Chair, Daniel Harrington, Secretary/Treasurer, Hai Bo Wen
Development of Novel Bioinks for Tissue Engineering
- Jennifer Patterson, Gulden Camci-Unal
Devices Designed for Imaging
- Abby Whittington, Christopher Bashur, Derek Irvine
Drug Delivery (SIG)
- Program Chair, Ambika Bajpayee; Chair, Michael Mitchell; Vice-Chair, Omid Veiseh; Secretary/Treasurer, Ana Jaklenec
Drug Delivery for Cardiovascular Applications
- C. LaShan Simpson, Chris Bashur, Ngan Huang
Emerging Innovations and Translation in Orthopedic Biomaterials Science and Engineering
- Bingyun Li, Malcom Xing
Engineered Biomaterials for Neural Applications
- Kyle Lampe, Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Sarah Stabenfelft
Engineered Recombinant Protein-Based Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
- Chander Chawla, Ngan Huang, Gulden Camci-Unal
Engineering Cells & Their Microenvironments (SIG)
- Program Chair, Sara Pedron-Haba; Chair, Daniel Alge; Vice-Chair, Janet Zoldan; Secretary/Treasurer, Chelsea Magin
Engineering Complex Tissues
- Lesley Chow, Jeannine Coburn, Vipuil Kishore
Engineering the Extracellular Matrix
- Michele Marcolongo, Lin Han, Noelle Comolli
Extracellular Vesicles for Biomedical Applications
- Eunji Chung
Fibrous Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
- Jessica Gluck
Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds
- Donald Griffin, Tatiana Segura
Host Response to Biomaterials/Macrophage Plasticity at Tissue-Biomaterial Interface
- Ilaha Isali, Phillip McClellan
Immune Engineering (SIG)
- Program Chair, Shreya Raghavan; Chair, Kara Spiller; Vice-Chair, Josh Doloff; Secretary/Treasurer, Abhinav Acharya
Immunomodulation and Cancer Imaging and Therapy using Nanomaterials
- Juan Beltran-Huarac, Steven N. Fiering, Robert Ivkov
Immunomodulatory Biomaterials
- Ashish Kulkarni, Alexandra Stubelius
Immunomodulatory Biomaterials and Immune Cell Interfaces
- Ramkumar T. Annamalai, Kara Spiller, Erik Dreaden
Incorporating Trained Immunity Concepts in Biomaterial Design
- Elizabeth Wayne, Erika Moore
Nanomaterials (SIG)
- Program Chair, Rachael Sirianni; Chair, Ming Su; Vice-Chair, Tolou Shokuhfar; Secretary/Treasurer, Vimala Bharadwaj
Nature Bioinspired Biomaterials and Strategies for TERM
- Nuno Neves, Rui Reis
New Materials and Approaches to Enhance Current Cardiovascular Devices
- Chris Bashur, Valerie Binetti
NSF-Funded Biomaterials Education Projects
- Jessica Jennings, Daniel Alge, Scott Wood
Ophthalmic Biomaterials (SIG)
- Program Chair, Frances Lasowski; Chair, Katelyn Swindle-Reilly; Vice-Chair, Rachelle Palchesko; Secretary/Treasurer, Laura Wells,
Orthopaedic Biomaterials (SIG)
- Program Chair, Donghui (Don) Zhu; Chair, Kelvin Yeung; Vice-Chair, Amber Jennings Secretary/Treasurer, David Mills
Overcoming the Ill Effects of Aging Around the World
- Liisa Kuhn, Ana Pego
Oxygen Imaging Assessment of Beta Cell Replacement Devices
- Mrignayani Kotecha
Pediatric Drug Delivery and Device Design
- Elizabeth Barker, Mike Mitchell, Riccardo Gottardi
Peptides as Therapeutics and Biomaterials
- Era Jain, Yaoying Wu
Sex, Ancestral & Geographical Determinants in Biomaterials Research
- Brian Aguado, Jennifer Robinson, Riccardo Gottardi
SFB-PRA (Postdoctoral Recognition Award)
- Claudia Loebel, Jason Guo
Smart Biomaterials
- Santiago Orrego, Marian Ackun-Farmmer, Danielle Benoit
Stimuli-Responsive Biomaterials
- Mary Beth Monroe
Tissue Engineering (SIG)
- Program Chair, Gulden Camci-Unal; Chair, Ngan Huang; Vice-Chair, Jeannine Coburn; Secretary/Treasurer, Qun Wang
Translational Tissue Engineering Therapies in Preclinical Models of Injury and Trauma
- Vanessa Doulames, Mary Beth Monroe, Ngan Huang
Understanding Biomaterial Behavior is Key to Use of Digital Twins in Biomedical Research
- Steven Levine, Nicholas Gallo
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Building Resilience and Preventing Burnout in Science
- Jason Guo, David Prieto
Future Biomaterials Faculty Workshops
- Anita Shukla, C. LaShan Simpson
Leveraging Your Online Presence as a Scientist
- Ritu Ramen, Nettie Brown, Jason Guo
Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Biomaterials
- Roger Narayan
Regulatory Challenges for Medical Products
- Mehdi Kazemzadeh-Narbat, Ritu Ramen
PANEL DISCUSSION ORGANIZERS
Back to the Future: The Wild West of Biomaterials
- Chris Thatcher, Scott Taylor, Onno Visser
Biomaterials: Year in Review
- Jan Stegemann, Uta Goebel
Emerging Scholars in Biomaterials
- Kent Leach
New Product Concept to Market: Influence of Investment & Propoer Commercial Valuation
- Subramanian Gunasekaran, Brent Upshaw, Lauren Costella
Scientific Writing: Crafting Your Story
- Teresa Rapp, Mykel Green, Jason Guo
The US-Korea Joint Workshop on Biomaterials in Translational Medicine
- Ho-Wook Jun, Jong-Chul Park, Dong-Wook Han
Translational Aspects of 3D & 4D Printing & Bioprinting
- Nureddin Ashammakhi, Scott Taylor