The Semcer Center for Healthcare Innovation Forum is intended to provide opportunities networking and being informed about current breakthrough in the field of healthcare.
In the Spring of 2023, the Center is hosting a bi-weekly faculty seminar series featuring 24 members’ research highlights from the five clusters. In the Fall of 2023, the Center will organize another bi-weekly seminar series featuring external speakers from academia, clinics and industry.
Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule
Date and Location | Topics and Speakers |
|---|---|
February 2 Location: Zoom | Improving detection and treatment of retinal vascular diseases Speaker: Jennifer Kang-Mieler, BME Computational methods for predicting antibody drug developability Speaker: Pin-Kuang Lai, CEMS Multiscale Materials for Tissue Regeneration and Cancer Theranostics Speaker: Hongjun Wang, BME |
February 13 Location: Hybrid (McLean 510) | Rescuing Rejected Donor Lungs Using Bioengineering Technologies Speaker: Jinho Kim, BME Robotic Manipulation in Medical Applications: Minimally Invasive Surgery and Human Casualty Extraction Speaker: Long Wang, ME Deep Graph Neural Networks for Personalized Health and Disease Topographies Speaker: Yue Ning, CS |
March 7 Location: Zoom | Understanding and treating gait dysfunction in Parkinson's disease Speaker: George McConnell, BME NEUROMECHANICS- A Mechanobiological Perspective On Understanding Our Brain Speaker: Johannes Weickenmeier, ME Healthcare sensing by graphene Speaker: Xian (Annie) Zhang, ME |
March 23 Location: Edwin A. Stevens Hall 212A | Extracellular matrix scaffolds for bone tissue engineering Speaker: Xiaojun Yu, BME Human Tissue on Chip Speaker: Woo Lee, CCB Integrated Robot and Wearable Sensor System for Enhanced Mobility Speaker: Yi Guo, ECE |
March 31 Location: Virtual | Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging and Image processing Speaker: Yu Gan, BME Development of deep learning framework for brain source imaging and histopathology image analysis Speaker: Feng Liu, SSE Contact Mechanical Analysis and Active Guidewire in Stroke Therapy Speaker: Yong Shi, ME |
April 10 Location: Virtual | Role of ECM in wound healing response Speaker: Ansu Perekatt, CCB Biofabrication: Enabling Technologies From a Process and Materials Perspective Speaker: Robert Chang, ME Medical Image Analysis Speaker: Hong Man, ECE |
April 25 Location: Hybrid (Edwin A. Stevens Hall 111) | Turning towards understanding agile human maneuvers Speaker: Antonia Zaferiou, BME Developing Novel Therapeutic Agents for Breast Cancer and Privileged Molecular Building Blocks Speaker: Abhishek Sharma, CCB Structural, functional and dynamic bioimaging with OCT Speaker: Shang Wang, BME |
May 11 Location: Hybrid (Edwin A. Stevens Hall 212A) | Interdisciplinary Efforts in Engineering and Chemical Biology Approaches to Ovarian Cancer Speaker: Marcin Iwanicki, CCB Fiber Optics and Nanophotonics for Chem/Bio Sensing Speaker: Henry Du, CEMS Nature-Inspired Surface Engineering for Antibacterial Materials Speaker: Chang-Hwan Choi, ME |