Join the Cellular and Tissue Engineering Conference for talks from leaders in the biotechnology industry, career panel discussions, a rapid-fire research competition, and poster session on the current projects. Open to all graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduate trainees to network with industry leaders, communicate your research, and expand your career opportunities.

Register Here! Complimentary registration required for all attendees. 

Rapid-fire and poster presentation submission deadline April 29

Registration (without abstract submission) is open through May 14.

Conference Agenda

• 8:00 a.m. -   Registration/Breakfast
• 9:00 a.m. -   Opening Remarks
• 9:15 a.m. -   Abigail Wojtowicz, Medical Director, US Medical Strategy, Takeda
• 10:00 a.m. - Tina Dorr, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg Law
• 10:30 a.m. - Poster Session
• 11:45 a.m. - Cherry Wan, Senior Manager, Chemical Science, Alcon
• 12:15 p.m. - Lunch
• 1:15 p.m. -   Bruno Marques, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Morphocell Technologies
• 2:00 p.m. -   Jianming Li, Senior Program Officer, Venture Well
• 3:00 p.m -    Rapid Fire Presentations (three minutes each)
• 4:00 p.m. -   Career Panel Discussion
• 5:00 p.m. -   Closing Remarks
• 5:10 p.m. -   Reception and Award Ceremony
• 7:00 p.m. -   Adjourn

Rapid Fire Presenters

1. Maya Zhang - "Developing an Intestine Organ Chip with Controlled Oxygen Gradients"
2. Aileen He - "DYNAMICS: A Trajectory-based Framework for Inferring Non-contact, Cytokine-mediated Cell-cell Communication from Spatial Transcriptomics"
3. Spencer Hayes - "Engineering Tunable Phase-Separating IDP Polymers for Synthetic Organelle Assembly in Human Cells
4. Aref Valipour - "Multiscale Microvascular Models"
5. Luiza DaMotta - "Hydrogel-based Co-delivery of Antimicrobial Agents Eliminates Established Infection and Promotes Bone Healing"
6. Nisha Raman - "Powder-cast Microneedle Fabrication for High-dose Delivery of Protein Therapeutics"
7. Vanessa Dartora - "Population-Informed Biomaterial Design: Engineering EPC Secretomes for Precision Wound Healing"
8. Athena Chien - "Membrane-resolved Epithelial electrophysiology revealed using extracellular electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EEIS)"