Applications of Nanoengineering for medicine and biology are having a dramatic impact on a myriad of healthcare needs, product development and biomedical research. NEMB brings together the relevant players and key stakeholders to discuss the integration of engineering, materials science and Nanotechnology in addressing fundamental problems in biology and medicine.
Plenary Speakers
- Luke Lee, UC Berkeley
Title: Quantum Biophotonic Electron Transfer and Its Applications in Medicine: Ultrafast Precision Molecular Diagnostics
- James Heath, Institute for Systems Biology
Title: Technologies for Personalizing Cancer Immunotherapies
- Gang Bao, Rice University
Title: Nanomedicine and Genome Editing Approaches for Disease Therapies
- Kumar Wickramasinghe, University of California, Irvine
Title: AFM Tools for Biological Applications
- Stefanie Jeffrey, Stanford University
Title: Liquid Biopsy: a Field Rife with Opportunities and Challenges
- Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Title: Deep Learning-enabled Computational Imaging and Sensing
Tracks
- Nano/micro therapeutics and drug delivery systems
Track Chairs: Xiaoming He (UMD), Seungpyo Hong (UW-Madison)
Keynotes: Xuefei Huang (Michigan State), Dino di Carlo (UCLA), Andrew Wang (U North Carolina), James Moon (U Michigan), Sunitha Nagrath (U Michigan)
- Nano/micro fluidics
Track Chairs: Cagri Savran (Purdue), Weian Zhao (UC Irvine)
Keynotes: Rong Fan (Yale), Joseph Liao (Stanford), Fatih Sarioglu (GA Tech), Emma Fan (UT Austin)
- Nano/micro biomechanics and mechanobiology
Track Chairs: Anna Grosberg (UC Irvine), Mohammad Mofrad (UC Berkeley)
Keynotes: Wonmuk Hwang (Texas A&M), Stephanie Seidlits (UCLA), Kris Noel Dahl (Carnegie Mellon), Taiji Adachi (Kyoto University)
- Nanomanufacturing and functionalization of biomaterials
Track Chairs: Hyunjoon Kong (UIUC), Song Li (UCLA)
Keynotes: Noo Li Jeon (Seoul National University), Kwan Hyi Lee (Korean Inst Sci Tech), Yu Hang Hu (UIUC), Paul Weiss (UCLA), Ali Khademhosseini (UCLA)
- Nano biosensors for molecular analysis
Track Chairs: Alexander Revzin (Mayo), Michelle Digman (UC Irvine)
Keynotes: Gerrard Marriott (UC Berkley), Bianxiao Cui (Stanford University), Laura Marcu (UC Davis), Chenzhong Li (NSF/FIU), Sumita Pennathur (UC Santa Barbara)
- Nanophotonics for biomedical imaging
Track Chairs: Yadong Yin (UC Riverside), Peter (Yingxiao) Wang (UCSD)
Keynotes: Jin Zhang (UCSD), Eric T. Ahrens (UCSD), Michael Lin (Stanford), Xiaohu Gao (University of Washington), Xiaoping Hu (UC Riverside), Zhuang Liu (Soochow University)
- Student Poster Competition
Track Chairs: Zhenpeng Qin (UT Dallas), Masaru Rao (UC Riverside)
Conference Chair
Abraham Lee, University of California Irvine
Program Chair
Bumsoo Han, Purdue University
Executive Committee
John Bischof, University of Minnesota
Guy Genin, Washington University St Louis
Gang Bao, Rice University