News & Events
| Thursday, November 14 Agenda | TI-BMES Building EA1.116 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 9:15 a.m. | Healthcare Challenge: Rapid Ideation Proposal Competition | Students, Postdocs and Trainees |
| 12 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:30 p.m. | Setup: Poster Session | Presenting Students |
| 2:00 p.m. | Poster Session #1 | Students, Postdocs and Trainees |
| 3:00 p.m. | Poster Session #2 | Students, Postdocs and Trainees |
| 4:00 p.m. | Reception | |
| Friday, November 15 Agenda | NB.EEF | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome Remarks | W.P. Andrew Lee, M.D. EVP for Academic Affairs and Provost, UT Southwestern |
| 8:40 a.m. | Opening Remarks | Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UT Southwestern |
| 9:00 a.m. | Kam Family Award Lecture A hitchhiker's and backpacker's approach to drug delivery |
Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D. Professor, Harvard University |
| 10:00 a.m. | Keynote Lecture Bridging Health Science and Semiconductor Technology: Challenges and Opportunities |
Ahmad Bahai, Ph.D. CTO, Texas Instruments |
| 10:40 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Studying the underlying biology of aging through engineering novel tools | Salman Sohrabi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UTA |
| 11:20 a.m. | Commercialization of a pillar/perfusion plate platform for dynamic human organoid culture and analysis | Moo-Yeal Lee, Ph.D. Associate Professor, UNT |
| 11:40 a.m. | Tissue mechanobiology in tumor pathogenesis | Jacopo Ferruzzi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UT Dallas |
| 12:10 p.m. | Lunch & TI-BME Building Tour | |
| 1:50 p.m. | Discovery and clinical translation of mRNA SORT lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for the treatment of genetic respiratory diseases | Daniel Siegwart, Ph.D. Professor, UT Southwestern |
| 2:10 p.m. | Transport phenomena through a nanopore for single molecule and single cell analysis | MinJun Kim, Ph.D. Professor, SMU |
| 2:30 p.m. | Supporting Biomedical Engineering in NTX | Nicole Small President, Lyda Hill Philanthropies |
| 2:50 p.m. |
Mentee lightning talks Differentiation of hPSC-derived Cardiac Organoids with Consistent Chamber Formation Design and validation of sequence-specific proteases through statistical modeling and directed evolution Mussel-Inspired Bio-adhesive for Early Intervention in Pelvic Floor Detachment Nanoparticle and Boiling Histotripsy-Based Local Tumor Immunomodulation Alters Gut Microbiome |
Students/Postdoc Presenters Marcel El-Mokahal Medel Lim Suan Zining Yang Sri Vidhya |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:20 p.m. | BioLabs Pegasus Park: A platform to launch your biotech | Gabby Everett, Ph.D. Director, BioLabs North Texas |
| 3:40 p.m. | The silver jubilee of biotech in North Texas: 25 years of advances and lessons learned | Claire Aldridge, Ph.D. Form Bio, Colossal Biosciences |
| 4:00 p.m. | Future of BME in North Texas and next steps for trans-institutional collaboration |
Michael Cho, Ph.D. Shalini Prasad, Ph.D. Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D. Jung-chih Chiao, Ph.D. Vijay Vaidyanathan, Ph.D. |
| 4:45 p.m. | Best Poster Award Winners and Raffle Prizes | |
| 4:55 p.m. | Symposium Closing Remarks | Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D. Chair, BME at UT Southwestern |
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BME Department News
Congratulations, Dr. Samuel Achilefu, on being recognized by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
For outstanding contributions to near-infrared molecular imaging and image-guided surgical resection of cancer, for innovative technologies in Biomedical Engineering.
The Lyda Hill Biomedical Innovation Fund
The Lyda Hill Biomedical Innovation Fund is designed to stimulate collaborative bioengineering research and drive high-impact translation by UT Dallas and UT Southwestern researchers and clinicians. Funded by Lyda Hill Philanthropies, this award opportunity aims to accelerate the work of joint-institutional research teams who demonstrate robust potential to rapidly translate and commercialize their work, with an ultimate goal of advancing the pipeline of promising and commercially viable scientific breakthroughs to improve health.
Molecular imaging innovator Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., to launch, lead Biomedical Engineering Department at UT Southwestern
Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., nationally recognized for expertise in molecular imaging and its application in treating human diseases, has been selected inaugural Chair to launch a new Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Achilefu recruited to lead new Department of Biomedical Engineering
Molecular imaging expert Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., will join UT Southwestern Feb. 1 as the first Chair of a new Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Achilefu was recruited to UTSW from the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.