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  <body><![CDATA[<p>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.</p><h5><em>Complimentary registration required for all attendees. Registration is now closed</em></h5><p><strong>Rapid-fire and poster presentation submission deadline April 29</strong></p><p><strong>Registration (without abstract submission) is open through May 14.</strong></p><h5><strong>Conference Agenda</strong></h5><ul><li>8:00 a.m. - &nbsp; Registration/Breakfast</li><li>9:00 a.m. - &nbsp; Opening Remarks</li><li>9:15 a.m. - &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/awojtowicz/">Abigail Wojtowicz</a>, Medical Director, US Medical Strategy, Takeda</li><li>10:00 a.m. - <a href="https://btlaw.com/en/people/tina-dorr">Tina Dorr,</a> Partner, Barnes &amp; Thornburg Law</li><li>10:30 a.m. - Poster Session</li><li>11:45 a.m. - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherry-wan-879a0419/">Cherry Wan</a>, Senior Manager, Chemical Science, Alcon</li><li>12:15 p.m. - Lunch</li><li>1:15 p.m. - &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.morphocell.com/updates/new-cmc-head">Bruno Marques</a>, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Morphocell Technologies</li><li>2:00 p.m. - &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://venturewell.org/30th-spotlight/jianming-li/">Jianming Li</a>, Senior Program Officer, Venture Well</li><li>3:00 p.m - &nbsp; &nbsp;Break</li><li>3:15 p.m - &nbsp; &nbsp;Rapid Fire Presentations (three minutes each)</li><li>4:00 p.m. - &nbsp; Career Panel Discussion</li><li>5:00 p.m. - &nbsp; Closing Remarks</li><li>5:10 p.m. - &nbsp; Reception and Award Ceremony</li><li>7:00 p.m. - &nbsp; Adjourn</li></ul><h5>Rapid Fire Presenters</h5><ol><li><strong>Maya Zhang</strong> - PI, Andrés García, <em>"Developing an Intestine Organ Chip with Controlled Oxygen Gradients"</em></li><li><strong>Aileen He</strong> - PI, Ahmet Coskun,<em>"DYNAMICS: A Trajectory-based Framework for Inferring Non-contact, Cytokine-mediated Cell-cell Communication from Spatial Transcriptomics"</em></li><li><strong>Spencer Hayes </strong>- PI, Felipe Quiroz, <em>"Engineering Tunable Phase-Separating IDP Polymers for Synthetic Organelle Assembly in Human Cells</em></li><li><strong>Aref Valipour </strong>- PI, Nick Housley, "<em>Multiscale Microvascular Models"</em></li><li><strong>Luiza DaMotta</strong> - PI, Andrés García, <em>"Hydrogel-based Co-delivery of Antimicrobial Agents Eliminates Established Infection and Promotes Bone Healing"</em></li><li><strong>Nisha Raman </strong>- PI, Mark Prausnitz, <em>"Advancing Microneedle Technology for High Dose Delivery of Protein Therapeutics"</em></li><li><strong>Vanessa Dartora</strong> - PI, Alyssa Panitch, <em>"Population-Informed Biomaterial Design: Engineering EPC Secretomes for Precision Wound Healing"</em></li><li><strong>Athena Chien</strong> - PI, Craig Forest, <em>"Membrane-resolved Epithelial electrophysiology revealed using extracellular electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EEIS)"</em></li></ol>]]></body>
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