Organ-on-a-Chip Conference

Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2015 - Thursday, 9 July 2015
Location: Boston, USA

Keynote Speakers

George Truskey
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

Roger Kamm
Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Geraldine A Hamilton
President/Chief Scientific Officer, Emulate Inc

Martin Yarmush
Founding Director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Michael Shuler
Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering, Cornell University, President Hesperos, Inc.

Gabor Forgacs
Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia; Scientific Founder, Organovo; CSO, Modern Meadow

Kristin Fabre
Microphysiological Systems Lead, Drug Safety & Metabolism, AstraZeneca

Overview

The Organ-on-a-Chip/Body-on-a-Chip 2015 World Congress focuses on an important and expanding field wherein cells are being assembled using microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip technologies in a functionally-relevant manner. These clusters of "assembled cells" have functional significance and can mimic in vivo organ structure.

Liver cells assembled on-board chips in a physiologically-relevant architecture using microfluidics can, for instance, be utilized for toxicity screening and the ability to assemble organ fragments ex vivo can provide an exquisite means to reconstruct biological processes (both physiological and pathological) "in a dish" or "on a chip."

Due to the cross-over of this topic into 3D-Printing for Life Sciences, the second track of this conference focuses on technologies and applications of biofabrication and 3D-bioprinting in the life sciences.

Present your Research at this Conference in a Poster to a Worldwide Audience. Poster Submission Deadline: June 30, 2015

Agenda Topics

Artery-on-a-Chip for Cardiovascular Disease Research
Bone-on-a-Chip
Brain-on-a-Chip
Gut-on-a-Chip
Liver-on-a-Chip for Toxicity Screening/Toxicology Studies
Lung-on-a-Chip
Microfluidics/LOAC for Constructing Organ-on-a-Chip/Tissue-on-a-Chip/Body-on-a-Chip
Modeling Disease-on-a-Chip
Organ-on-a-Chip/Body-on-a-Chip Assembly
Synthetic Biology
Technologies for Organ-on-a-Chip Biofabrication

Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities

Jeff Fan, Exhibition Manager
jeff@selectbioconferences.com
+1-510-857-4865

Confirmed Speakers to date

Holger Becker, Chief Scientific Officer, Microfluidic ChipShop GmbH
Thomas Corso, Chief Technical Officer, CorSolutions
Harald Denz, CEO, DENZ BIO-Medical GmbH
Robert Esmond, Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C
Olivier Guenat, Head, Organs-on-Chip Technologies, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern-Switzerland
Matthew Hancock, Managing Engineer, Veryst Engineering, LLC
James Hickman, Professor, Nanoscience Technology, Chemistry, Biomolecular Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida; Chief Scientist, Hesperos
Onur Kilic, Researcher, Johns Hopkins University
Hiroshi Kimura, Professor, Micro/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University
Uwe Marx, CSO & Founder, TissUse GmbH, Honorary Professor for Medical Biotechnology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Megan L McCain, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Thomas Pauwelyn, Researcher, IMEC/KU Leuven Belgium
Martin Stelzle, Head of BioMEMS & Sensors Department, NMI at University of Tübingen
Shannon Stott, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
David Sun Kong, Technical Staff, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Rahul S Tare, Lecturer, University Of Southampton
Jonathan Thon, Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder -- Platelet BioGenesis
Paul Vulto, Managing Director, MIMETAS
Niels WIjnaendts van Resandt, Director, Sales and Marketing North & South Americas, Heidelberg Instruments, Inc.

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