Description:

Professor Guillermo Ameer’s Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE) will hold its 3rd Symposium on Regenerative Engineering Tuesday, April 30th and the morning of Wednesday, May 1st, with all interested students and faculty invited to attend.  The Symposium convenes national and international experts to discuss state-of-the-art regenerative technologies for musculoskeletal tissues, immunology, and other organs.  Graduate trainees from several of our speakers’ labs, including CARE, will also take part, and a poster session open to any interested students or labs is accepting applicants through April 18th.  

Speakers: 

Richard Tran, Ph.D., Vice President of Research, Acuitive Technologies, Inc.

Anthony Atala, M.D., W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology, G. Link Professor and Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University

Cato Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., University Professor, Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Director, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical, Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences; Director, The Cato T. Laurencin Institute for Regenerative Engineering; Chief Executive Officer, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science at The University of Connecticut

Ramille Shah, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Dimension Inx, LLC; Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

Milica Radisic, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Organ-on-a-Chip Engineering; Senior Scientist, Toronto General Research Institute

Julia E. Babensee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

Thank you to our event sponsors: 

Acuitive Technologies

Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago

Feinberg Department of Surgery

McCormick Department of Biomedical Engineering