Schedule
Thursday
October 27th
Pre-Conference Social 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
This event will be hosted at Kung Fu located at 1921 Division St, Nashville, TN 37203
Friday
October 28th
Arrival & Breakfast 8:00 - 9:00
9:00-9:10
Welcome
9:10 - 10:30
Research Session I
Presenters:
Chris Nelson
“Expanding applications of in vivo genome engineering to rare disease and regenerative medicine”
Richard d'Arcy
“Ultrahigh Drug-Loaded Micelles for the Treatment of a Triple-Negative Breast Cancer”
Ramkumar Annamalai
“Immunomodulatory Therapy for Bone Regeneration”
Vincent Venditto
“Antibiotics to heal a broken heart”
Break 10:30 - 10:45
10:45-11:30
Student Rapid-Fire Presentations
Poster Sessions and Lunch 11:30-1:00
1:00-2:00
Research Session II
Presenters:
Thomas Werfel
“Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems for Interval Delivery of Psychedelics”
Eden Tanner
“Bio-inspired Ionic Liquids for Drug Delivery”
John Martin
“'Healing-Responsive’ Biomaterials for Engineering Tissue Regeneration”
2:00 - 3:00
Racial Health Disparities: Learning through the Lens of a Cancer Researcher
Presenter:
Katie Young
Break 3:00 - 3:15
3:15 - 4:15
Research Session III
Presenters:
Nate Huebsch
“Biomaterial platforms to study role of biomechanical stress in maturation and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy phenotypes in iPSC-derived heart muscle”
Alexandra Rutz
“3D Printed Conducting Polymers as Bioelectronic Scaffolds”
Stacey Schutte
“Bilayered Scaffold Designed for Innervation”
4:15 - 5:15
Key Note Speaker
Tatiana Segura
“Microgel size in Microporous Annealed Particle Scaffolds (MAPS) impacts macrophage polarity”
5:15 - 7:00
Awards Ceremony and Reception
Featuring VIBE