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Registration and Reception:
12:30 – 1:00 pm
Program 1:00 – 6:00 pm
1:00 pm Welcome and Introductions
W. Grant McGimpsey, Ph.D. – Director and Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, WPI Bioengineering Institute
1:05pm Opening Remarks
Dennis D. Berkey, Ph,D. – President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
David C. Ayers MD – The Arthur Pappas Professor and Chair, Department of Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation, University of Massachusetts Medical School
1:15 pm Moderator
George Pins, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Speakers
1:20 pm Giving Cells What They Want: Biomaterials as ECM Analogues for Skeletal
Tissue Engineering
Lawrence Bonassar, Ph.D. – Associate Professor and Associate Chair,
Department of Biomedical Engineering & Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
2:05 pm Biomimetic composites for Bone Tissue Engineering
Jie Song, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation/Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
2:50 pm Characterizing Cellular Responses to Bioactive Collagen Threads:
Applications for Orthopedic Tissue Regeneration
George Pins, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
3:15 pm Break
3:50 pm Mechanotransduction Studies in Articular Cartilage Explants:
What we’ve Learned and Potential Applications to Tissue Engineering Research
Paul Fanning, Ph.D. – Research Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedics/Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
4:15 pm
Interface Tissue Engineering: the Bridge to
Functional Tissue Systems
Helen Lu, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
Keynote Speaker
5:00 pm Directing Stem Cells Toward Functional Tissue Outcomes
David Kaplan, Ph.D. – Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
6:00 pm Adjourn
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