Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions
Reimagining Medical Devices: Protecting Patients from Hidden Threats
Every year, thousands of patients face life-threatening infections from medical devices like hip replacements and heart valves. These infections often start when bacteria form biofilms on device surfaces, making them extremely hard to treat. This video tells the story from the patient’s perspective, highlighting the real-world impact, and shows how researchers are aiming to design smarter, safer devices to keep patients healthy and infections at bay.
Student Travel Awards
A limited number of scholarships are available to research students to partially offset the cost of attending the Conference. Each awardee will be expected to present a poster and/or an oral talk the Conference.
Pushing the Rate of Infections Toward Zero
At the 2023 Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions, more than 100 scientists, researchers and students from across the United States and around the world exchanged ideas and discussed key pathways for the development of next-generation infection-resisting biomaterials.
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