Co-hosted by the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University.

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Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Friday, October 20, 2006

Biomaterials for Sensors, Implants and Regenerative Medicine
8:00AM-4:00PM, Cocktail Hour 4:00-5:00PM
The Photonics Center, 9th Floor
8 Saint Mary's Street
Boston, MA 02215

Host: Professor Catherine Klapperich, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Abstract:
This Emerging Technology Seminar will focus on the discovery, development and characterization of biomaterials. A fundamental challenge in bringing biomedical devices to market is defining appropriate material interfaces that impart the necessary specificity and efficiency for a particular application. These issues are important for devices meant to operate both inside and outside of the body. Specialized surfaces and materials are required for long term function of implants designed to actively interface with the body and sensors designed to monitor a particular biological function in real time /in vivo/. Similar challenges are encountered/ in vitro /when patient samples contact diagnostic devices; the sample-biomaterial interface is crucial to many detection strategies. In order for biological responses to materials to be a useful design variable, these responses must be quantifiable, and the signaling pathways involved must be understood. Several academic speakers will cover current challenges and advances in biocompatibility, sensor design, tissue engineering, drug delivery and microfluidic diagnostics.

Issues addressed in the seminar included:

How will healthcare be impacted by current biomaterials research?

How will we design material interfaces that impart the necessary specificity and efficiency for drug delivery?

What new biomaterials are needed to enable the mass distribution of disposable diagnostics?

How will the wider availability of inexpensive molecular diagnostics impact world health?

How will technologies now in the laboratory be translated to the bedside?

Will clinical laboratories be replaced by handheld detection devices carried by care providers?

Agenda:

Time	Speaker	Seminar Title	Slide Set
8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:30	Kenneth Lutchen Dean, College of Engineering, Boston University	Welcome Bio
8:35	Jeffrey T. Borenstein Ph.D., Director of the Biomedical Engineering Center and a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Draper Laboratory	Biodegradable Microfluidics: A New Platform for Tissue Engineering Bio Abstract
9:15	Professor Scott Manalis Associate Professor, MIT Biological and Mechanical Engineering	Microdevices for Biomolecular and Single Cell Detection Bio Abstract
9:55	Break
10:30	Dr. Frederick J. Schoen M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School	Biomaterials Challenges in Heart Valve Replacement Bio Abstract
11:10	Arthur J. Coury Ph.D., Vice President of Biomaterials Research, Genzyme	Development Pathway and Orthopedic Applications of Tough, Tissue Adherent Hydrogels Bio Abstract
11:50	Lunch with Speakers
1:00	David Mooney Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard University DEAS	Spatiotemporal Control of Growth Factor Delivery for Angiogenesis Bio Abstract
1:40	Amit Meller Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Boston University	Using Nanopores to Analyze DNA and DNA-protein Interactions Bio Abstract
2:20	Mark Grinstaff Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Boston University	Biodendrimers: New Polymers for Medical Applications Bio Abstract
3:00	Cocktail Reception