DRAFT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

as of March 1, 2023

(Subject to Change)

 

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM: Speaker Ready Room

7:30 AM - 7:00 PM: Registration

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM: SFB Governing Council Meeting

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Workshop 1 - Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Biomaterials

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Workshop 2 - Future Biomaterials Faculty Workshop  

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Workshop 3 - Regulatory Challenges for Medical Products  

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Workshop 4 - Building Resilience and Preventing Burnout in Science 

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Workshop 5 - Leveraging Your Online Presence as a Scientist 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch on Own

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Concurrent Session 1

• Panel Discussion: Back to the Future- The Wild West of Biomaterials 
• Biomaterials Education (SIG) 
• Biomaterials Systems and Devices for Hemostasis and Wound Care  
• Bioactive Materials for Hard Tissue Regeneration 
• Biomaterials in Engineering the Tumor Immune Microenvironment 
• Ophthalmic Biomaterials (SIG)
• Peptides as Therapeutics and Biomaterials 
• PostDoc Recognition Award (PRA) Competition

15-minute Break 

2:45 PM  – 4:15 PM: Concurrent Session 2 

• Panel Discussion: Translational Aspects of 3D and 4D Printing and Bioprinting
• Applied Biomaterials for Microphysiological Systems  
• Bioactive Materials for Soft Tissue Regeneration 
• Bioinspired Approaches to Supramolecular Biomaterials 
• Dental/Craniofacial Biomaterials (SIG) 
• Devices Designed for Imaging 
• Extracellular Vesicles for Biomedical Applications 
• Sex and Ancestral Disparities 

15-minute Break

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM: Opening Ceremony

• Keynote Address: Amar Sawhney, PhD, Incept, LLC 

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM: Opening Reception and Poster Session I

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM: LGBTQIA+ & Friends Mixer 

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

6:00 AM - 8:30 PM: Speaker Ready Room

7:00 AM - 6:30 PM: Registration

8:00 AM - 10:15 AM: Plenary Session I - Society Awards 

• Founders Award 
• Mid-Career Award
• Technology Innovation and Development Award
• Young Investigator Award
• Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Award

30-minute Break

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Exhibit Hall Open

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Concurrent Session 3 

• Panel Discussion: Scientific Writing: Crafting Your Story
• Biomaterials for Organoids 
• Emerging Innovations and Translation in Orthopedic Biomaterials Science and Engineering 
• Smart Biomaterials 
• Biomaterials for the Lungs 
• Industry Rising Star Competition  
• Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds 
• Fibrous Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering 

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch on Own

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Events

• Women’s Luncheon (Separate Registration Required) 
• JBMRA Editorial Board Lunch (Editorial Board Only)
• SFB Presidents Advisory Committee Luncheon (Advisory Committee only)

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM: Concurrent Session 4  

• Panel Discussion: New Product Concept to Market: Influence of Investment and Proper Commercial Valuation
• Biomaterials for Cell Therapy  
• Drug Delivery (SIG)  
• Engineering Complex Tissues 
• Immunomodulatory Biomaterials 
• Nanomaterials (SIG)   
• Orthopaedic Biomaterials (SIG)  
• Underrepresented Voices in Biomaterials Science and Engineering

15-minute break 

2:30 PM - 7:15 PM: Exhibit Hall Open 

3:45 PM - 5:45 PM: Concurrent Session 5  

• The US-Korea Joint Workshop on Biomaterials in Translational Medicine (Concludes at 6:00 PM) 
• BioInterfaces (SIG) 
• Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering 1 
• Biomaterials for Women's Health 
• Computational and Machine Learning Approaches  
• Engineering Cells & Their Microenvironments (SIG)  
• Immune Engineering (SIG) 
• Stimuli-Responsive Biomaterials

5:45 PM - 7:15 PM:

• Poster & Exhibit Session II 
• Biomaterials Education Challenge

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM: Special Interest Group (SIG) Socials 

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM: Students & Young Scientist Group (YSG) Mixer 

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Friday, April 21, 2023 

6:00 AM - 8:30 PM: Speaker Ready Room

7:00 AM - 6:30 PM: Registration

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Plenary Session II - Clemson Awards

• Clemson Award for Applied Research 
• Clemson Award for Basic Research
• Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature 

15-minute Break 

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM: Exhibit Hall Open

9:45 AM - 11:15 AM: Plenary Session III - Biomaterials Journal Award 

15-minute Break  

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Concurrent Session 6 (RAPID FIRE)

• Panel Discussion: Emerging Scholars in Biomaterials 
• Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering 2 
• Cardiovascular Biomaterials (SIG)   
• Drug Delivery (SIG)  
• Immune Engineering (SIG)   
• Tissue Engineering (SIG) 
• Engineering Cells and Their Microenvironments (SIG)
• 3D and Nano Biomaterials

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch on Own

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch Events

• Student Luncheon (Separate Registration Required)
• JBMRB Editorial Board Lunch (Editorial Board Only) 

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Concurrent Session 7 

• Panel Discussion: Biomaterials: Year in Review 
• Biophysical Strategies for Regulation of Cellular Microenvironments 
• Biomaterial-Based Vitro/Cancer Tumor Models for Drug Screening and Diagnostics 2 
• 3-Minute Thesis (3MT)
• Development of Novel Bioinks for Tissue Engineering  
• Business Pitch Competition 
• Musculoskeletal Regeneration 
• Biofunctionalized Biomaterial Surfaces for Cellular and Tissue Engineering 

3:30 PM  – 5:00 PM: Poster & Exhibit Session III 

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM:

• SFB Annual Business Meeting 
• SFB Student and Post-Doc Forum 
• Student Chapter Award

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM:

• Black, LatinX, Indigenous, and Persons of Color Mixer  
• Chinese Association for Biomaterials (CAB) Award Ceremony & Reception

7:00 PM - 11:00 PM: BASH 

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Saturday, April 22, 2023 

6:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Speaker Ready Room

7:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Registration

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Acta Biomaterialia Gold and Silver Medal Awards Session 

15-minute Break 

10:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Concurrent Session 8 

• Cardiovascular Biomaterials (SIG) 1 
• Nature Bioinspired Biomaterials and Strategies for TERM
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Influencing the Tissue-Biomaterial Interface  
• Advances and Translation of Self-Assembly Soft Biomaterials 
• Engineered Biomaterials for Neural Applications 
• Biomaterial-Based in Vitro Cancer/Tumor Models for Drug Screening and Diagnostics 1 
• Pediatric Drug Delivery and Device Design  

12:15 PM: Meeting Adjourns