| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:35 pm - 9:30 pm | BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY AMONG US |
| Discussion Leader: Andrés Garcia (Georgia Tech) |
| 7:35 pm - 8:20 pm | Rakesh Jain (Massachusetts General Hospital)
"Creation of functional vessels for cancer therapy and tissue engineering" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Doug Lauffenburger (MIT)
"What are cells thinking? And how can we think about this?" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DEVICE BIOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE |
| Discussion Leader: Tom Horbett (Univ. Washington) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | William Shane (Wadsworth Center)
"Controlling cell and tissue responses to inserted neural prosthetic devices" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:25 am - 11:05 am | Howard Greisler (Loyola Univ. Medical Center)
"Cardiovascular devices" |
| 11:05 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
| 11:25 am - 12:05 pm | Tom Bauer (Cleveland Clinic)
"Mechanisms of joint arthroplasty success and failure" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Rapid Fire Poster Presentations |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MODELING PROTEIN ADSORPTION |
| Discussion Leader: David Grainger (Univ. Utah) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Igal Szleifer (Purdue Univ.)
"Kinetics and thermodynamics of protein adsorption on modified surfaces" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Robert Latour (Clemson Univ.)
"Developing a Rosetta stone for protein adsorption through molecular simulation" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DIRECTED TISSUE REPAIR |
| Discussion Leader: Kevin Healy (UC-Berkeley) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Ravi Bellamkonda (Georgia Tech)
"Tissue engineering strategies for neural repair" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Dan Gazit (Hebrew University, Jerusalem / Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
"Stem cell-based skeletal tissue engineering" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | François Auger (LOEX, Quebec)
"Tissue-engineered blood vessel: a unique model for pharmacological studies" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TISSUE RESPONSES TO PHYSICAL STIMULI |
| Discussion Leader: Joyce Wong (Boston Univ.) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Sangeeta Bhatia (MIT)
"Microtechnology tools to study the cellular microenvironment" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | David Kaplan (Tufts Univ.)
"Factors influencing matrix remodeling in vitro and in vivo" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTICS |
| Discussion Leader: Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert (Washington Univ.) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Ravi Kane (RPI)
"The design of potent polyvalent therapeutics" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:25 am - 11:05 am | Lonnie Shea (Northwestern Univ.)
"Biomaterial scaffolds for efficient gene delivery" |
| 11:05 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
| 11:25 am - 12:05 pm | Kristi Kiick (Univ. Delaware)
"Tailoring macromolecular interactions via designed multivalent architectures" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Rapid Fire Poster Presentations |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ADVANCES IN BIOMATERIALS ENGINEERING |
| Discussion Leader: Jeffrey Hubbell (EPFL, Switzerland) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Jennifer Elisseeff (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
"Engineering synthetic-biological composites to control stem cell differentiation" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Darrell Irvine (MIT)
"Biomaterials interfacing with the immune system" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ENGINEERING HOST RESPONSES |
| Discussion Leader: Julia Babensee (Georgia Tech) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Themis Kyriakides (Yale Univ. School of Medicine)
"Identification of molecular determinants of biomaterial-induced inflammation" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Jeff Davidson (Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine)
"Active and passive functions of biomaterials in tissue repair" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Ron Gill (Univ. Alberta)
"Barriers for immune system evasion: what are we trying to accomplish?" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING |
| Discussion Leader: W. Monty Reichert (Duke Univ.) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Robert McGrath (Ohio State Univ.)
"From lightning to lighting: Physics and technology discharged from Franklin's kite experiment" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
