Detailed Agenda

Format: 2025-06-07

7:00 am to 7:00 pm

Speaker Ready Room

7:30 am to 7:00 pm

Registration

8:00 am to 10:00 am

Workshop 1: Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Biomaterials

8:00 am to 12:00 pm

Workshop 2: Future Biomaterials Faculty Workshop

8:00 am to 1:00 pm

SFB Governing Council Meeting

9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Workshop 3: Regulatory Challenges for Medical Products

10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Workshop 4: Building Resilience and Preventing Burnout in Science

10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Workshop 5: Leveraging Your Online Presence as a Scientist

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

LUNCH ON OWN

12:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Exhibit Hall Set Up - Exhibitors and Poster Session I

1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

1A: Panel Discussion: Back to the Future - The Wild West of Biomaterials

1B: Bioactive Materials for Hard Tissue Regeneration

1C: Biomaterials Systems and Devices for Hemostasis and Wound Care

1D: Peptides as Therapeutics and Biomaterials

1E: Post-Doc Recognition Award Session

1F: Ophthalmic Biomaterials (SIG)

1G: Biomaterials Education (SIG)

1H: Biomaterials in Engineering the Tumor Immune Microenvironment

2:30 pm to 2:45 pm

Break

2:45 pm to 4:15 pm

2A: Panel Discussion: Translational Aspects of 3D and 4D Printing and Bioprinting

2B: Bioactive Materials for Soft Tissue Regeneration

2C: Dental/Craniofacial Biomaterials (SIG)

2D: Bioinspired Approaches to Supramolecular Biomaterials

2E: Sex, Ancestral & Geographical Determinants in Biomaterials Research

2F: Extracellular Vesicles for Biomedical Applications

2G: Devices Designed for Imaging

2H: Applied Biomaterials for Microphysiological Systems

4:15 pm to 4:30 pm

Break

4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Opening Ceremony

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Opening Reception and Poster Session I

In the Exhibit Hall

8:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Industry Mixer

Off Site Event

LGBTQIA+ & Friends Mixer - Students Welcome!

Off Site Event

Poster Session I - Teardown

6:00 am to 8:30 pm

Speaker Ready Room

7:00 am to 8:00 am

Poster Session II - Setup

7:00 am to 6:30 pm

Registration

8:00 am to 10:15 am

Plenary Session I - Society Awards

10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Exhibit Hall Open

10:15 am to 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am to 12:00 pm

3A: Panel Discussion: Scientific Writing: Crafting Your Story

3B: Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds

3C: Fibrous Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering

3D: Biomaterials for Organoids

3E: Biomaterials for the Lungs

3F: Smart Biomaterials

3G: Emerging Innovations and Translation in Orthopedic Biomaterials Science and Engineering

3H: Industry Rising Star Competition

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

JBMRA Editorial Board Lunch

Editorial Board Only

LUNCH ON OWN

SFB President's Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee Members Only

Women in Biomaterials Luncheon

Separate Registration Required

1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

4A: Panel Discussion: New Product Concept to Market: Influence of Investment and Proper Commercial Valuation

4B: Drug Delivery (SIG)

4C: Orthopaedic Biomaterials (SIG)

4D: Immunomodulatory Biomaterials

4E: Nanomaterials (SIG)

4F: Engineering Complex Tissues

4G: Biomaterials for Cell Therapy

4H: Black and LatinX Voices in Biomaterials

2:30 pm to 7:15 pm

Exhibit Hall Open

3:30 pm to 3:45 pm

Break

3:45 pm to 5:45 pm

5B: Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineerings 1

5C: Immune Engineering (SIG) 1

5D: Stimuli-Responsive Biomaterials

5E: Engineering Cells & Their Microenvironments (SIG) 1

5F: Computational and Machine Learning Approaches

5G: Biomaterials for Women's Health

5H: BioInterfaces (SIG)

3:45 pm to 6:00 pm

5A: The US-Korea Joint Workshop on Biomaterials in Translational Medicine

5:45 pm to 7:15 pm

Exhibit & Poster Session II | Biomaterials Education Challenge

7:15 pm to 8:15 pm

Poster Session II - Teardown

7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

SIG Socials

Offsite Event

8:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Student and Young Scientist Group (YSG) Mixer

Offsite Event

6:00 am to 8:30 pm

Speaker Ready Room

7:00 am to 9:00 am

Poster Session III - Setup

7:00 am to 6:30 pm

Registration

8:00 am to 9:30 am

Plenary Session II - Society Awards

9:30 am to 9:45 am

Break

9:30 am to 1:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Open

9:45 am to 11:15 am

Plenary Session III - Biomaterials Journal Awards

11:15 am to 11:30 am

Break

11:30 am to 12:30 pm

6A: Panel Discussion: Emerging Scholars in Biomaterials

6B: Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering RAPID FIRE

6C: Drug Delivery (SIG) RAPID FIRE

6D: Immune Engineering (SIG) RAPID FIRE

6E: 3D and Nano Biomaterials RAPID FIRE

6F: Engineering Cells and Their Microenvironments (SIG) RAPID FIRE

6G: Cardiovascular Biomaterials (SIG) RAPID FIRE

6H: Tissue Engineering (SIG) RAPID FIRE

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

IUSBSE Lunch

IUSBSE ONLY

JBMRB Editorial Board Lunch

Editorial Board Only

LUNCH ON OWN

Student Luncheon

Separate Registration Required

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

7A: Panel Discussion: Biomaterials: Year in Review

7B: Biomaterial-Based Vitro Cancer/Tumor Models for Drug Screening and Diagnostics 1

7C: Business Pitch Competition

7D: Biofunctionalized Biomaterial Surfaces for Cellular and Tissue Engineering

7E: Musculoskeletal Regeneration

7F: Development of Novel Bioinks for Tissue Engineering

7G: Biophysical Strategies for Regulation of Cellular Microenvironments

7H: 3-Minute Thesis

3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Exhibit & Poster Session III

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

SFB Annual Business Meeting

SFB Student and Postdoc Forum

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Poster Session III - Teardown

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Exhibits - Tear Down

6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Black, LatinX, Indigenous, and Persons of Color Mixer

Chinese Association for Biomaterials (CAB) Award Ceremony & Reception

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

SFB BASH

6:00 am to 12:00 pm

Speaker Ready Room

7:00 am to 11:00 am

Registration

8:00 am to 10:00 am

Plenary Session IV - Acta Biomaterialia Gold & Silver Medals

10:00 am to 10:15 am

Break

10:15 am to 12:15 pm

8B: Biomaterial-Based In Vitro Cancer/Tumor Models for Drug Screening and Diagnostics 2

8C: Engineered Biomaterials for Neural Applications

8D: Cardiovascular Biomaterials (SIG)

8E: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Influencing the Tissue-Biomaterial Interface

8F: Advances and Translation of Self-Assembly Soft Biomaterials

8G: Pediatric Drug Delivery and Device Design

8H: Nature Bioinsprired Biomaterials and Strategies for TERM