Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Molecular Design of Biomaterials
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm
"Harnessing the ECM to Build Tunable Tissues and Decipher Disease Pathogenesis"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm
"Protein-Engineered Materials for Stem Cell Expansion and Transplantation"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Biomimicry at Multiple Length Scales
9:00 am - 9:45 am
"Engineering and Exploring the Cell Material Interface"
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
"Advanced Biofabrication to Rebuild the Human Heart"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
"Biomaterials and 3D Bioprinting for Engineering Functional Musculoskeletal Tissues"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Microfabricated Systems to Manipulate Single Cells
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm
"Physiologic Intestinal Simulacra for Basic Biology and Patient-Specific Medicine"
6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:45 pm
"Microfabricated Systems to Study Cellular Mechanobiology"
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Microphysiological Systems to Mimic Organs and Organisms
9:00 am - 9:45 am
"Diabetes-on-a-Chip In Vitro Platforms for Studying Human Islet and Immune Cell Physiology, Disease and Interventions"
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
"Engineering Mucosal Barriers"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
"Engineering Stem Cells into Organ Chips"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Commercialization and Clinical Translation
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Commercialization and Clinical Translation of Bone Inducing Calcium Phosphate-Based Materials with Advanced Submicron Surface Topography"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair: From Bench to Bedside"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"Creating Spacers for Radiotherapy"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering
9:00 am - 9:45 am
"Engineering Organoid Development"
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
"Engineering Hydrogels with Tunable Macroporosity and Molecular Mobility as 3D Stem Cell Niche: From Tissue Regeneration to Disease Modeling"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
"Biomaterials Designed to Mimic and Understand the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche in Health and Disease"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Engineered Tumor Models to Study Disease Progression and Metastasis
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm
"Tunable Hydrogels for Controlling Phenotypic Cancer Cell States to Model Breast Cancer Dormancy and Reactivation"
6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:45 pm
"Engineered Systems Overcoming Transport Barriers in Tumor Progression and Therapy"
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Realization of Engineered Tissues
9:00 am - 9:45 am
"Modular and Composite Approaches to Engineering High Metabolism and High Load Tissues"
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
"Bioengineered Blood Vessels: From Benchtop to Patients"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
"Progress Towards Development of Functioning Bio-Engineered Lungs"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Young Investigator Presentations
6:00 pm - 6:10 pm
"Sustained Release Hydrogel with TLR Based Adjuvants Enhances Vaccine Response"
6:10 pm - 6:15 pm
Discussion
6:15 pm - 6:25 pm
"Evaluation of Chitosan Surface Modification on PLGA Particles to Enhance Vascular Wall Adhesion"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
"Immunomodulatory Biomaterials to Improve Allogeneic Islet Graft Survival"
6:40 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
"Advanced Biomaterials for Treatment and Detection of Microbial Infections"
7:00 pm - 7:05 pm
Discussion
7:05 pm - 7:20 pm
"Microfluidically Generated Single Cell Microgels as Pericellular Niches with Temporally Controlled Biochemical and Biophysical Properties"
7:20 pm - 7:25 pm
Discussion
7:25 pm - 7:40 pm
"Engineering Bioactive Nanoparticles to Rejuvenate Progenitor Cells"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure