Symposium BM04-Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering

Regenerative Engineering is the convergence of advanced materials science, stem cell technology, developmental biology, physical sciences, and clinical translation to develop innovative, scalable tools to regenerate damaged or diseased complex tissues and organs. In this context, engineered biomaterials play a prominent role in moving this field forward.

This symposium will include discussions on functional biomaterials inspired from the fields of nanotechnology, chemistry, cell and molecular biology, and medicine. The sessions will emphasize biomaterials design and applications to regenerative engineering, with an emphasis on the regeneration of complex tissues and organs. Technologies that involve the delivery of molecules (e.g. growth factors, drugs, micro/nanoparticles, proteins, peptides, DNA, RNA) or the use of topography to control stem cell behavior will also be covered in this symposium. We will also emphasize the importance of clinical translation by facilitating discussions between clinicians, engineers, and medical device companies. Materials scientists, industry and investment professionals, government employees, biotechnology experts, professors, students (undergraduate/graduate), early career scientists, and medical practitioners will be interested in attending this symposium. This transdisciplinary symposium is in line with the objectives of the MRS by contributing to the education and training of the next generation of materials researchers, providing opportunities for career and professional development, and helping to broaden the impact of materials science. This symposium will not focus or include microfluidic/organ on a chip studies.

Topics will include:

Materials to control cell behavior
Instructive biomaterials for differentiation of stem cells
Stimuli-responsive polymers and intelligent materials to facilitate tissue regeneration
Biomaterials for cardiovascular regenerative engineering
Biomaterials for musculoskeletal regenerative engineering
Immunomodulatory biomaterials
Clinical translation of laboratory research
Diagnostic and therapeutic biomaterials
High-throughput approaches for the synthesis and screening of functional biomaterials
Biomaterials for soft tissue regenerative engineering
Biomaterials for hard tissue regenerative engineering
Organ regenerative engineering

Invited Speakers:

Andreas Lendlein (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany)
John Rogers (Northwestern University, USA)
Ali Khademhosseini (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Karen Christman (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Tejal Desai (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Akhilesh Gaharwar (Texas A&M University, USA)
Warren Grayson (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Esmaiel Jabbari (University of South Carolina, USA)
Cato Laurencin (University of Connecticut, USA)
Hiroaki Onoe (Keio University, Japan)
Milica Radisic (University of Toronto, Canada)
Rui Reis (University of Minho, Portugal)
Tatiana Segura (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Shinji Sugiura (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
Jian Yang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Fan Yang (Stanford University, USA)