Seminars

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 Fall of 2023, the Center hosted a bi-weekly faculty seminar series featuring 24 members’ research highlights from the five clusters. For 2024, the Center has organized another bi-weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers from academia, clinics and industry.

Spring 2024 Seminar Schedule

Date and Location

Topics and Speakers

Thursday, February 8

Time: 4 p.m.

Location: University Center Complex, Tech Flex C

Use of Anisotropic Nanostructures to Decipher Material-Cell Interfaces

Speaker: Kwahun Lee, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology

Hosting faculty: CHI

Thursday, February 22

Time: 4 p.m.

Location: University Center Complex, Tech Flex C

Osteocytes, Fatigue Microdamage and Bone Remodeling: Messages from Within

Speaker: Mitchell Schaffler, City College of New York

Hosting faculty: Hongjun Wang

Thursday, March 7

Time: 4 p.m.

Location: University Center Complex, Tech Flex C

Targeting Netrin-1 in Pancreatic Cancer

Speaker: Darren R. Carpizo, University of Rochester Medicine, Surgical Oncology

Hosting faculty: Ansu Perekatt

Thursday, March 21

Time: 4 p.m.

Location: University Center Complex, The Gallery

Modeling and Control of Intelligent Continuum Robots for Surgery and Perception Augmentation

Speaker: Nabil Simaan, Vanderbilt University

Hosting faculty: Long Wang

Thursday, April 18

Time: 4 p.m.

Location: University Center Complex, Tech Flex C

Physical Human-Robot Interaction with Soft Devices for Medicine and Beyond

Speaker: Jacqueline Libby, Assistant Professor, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology

Hosting faculty: CHI

Wednesday, May 1

Time: 4 p.m.

Location: McLean 210

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Jia Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology

Hosting faculty: CHI

News & Highlights

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