| 8:00-9:00 am | Breakfast and Symposium Registration (Prefunction Space) |
| 9:00-9:05 am | Opening Remarks (BRC Auditorium) Omid Veiseh and Jordan Miller, Rice University |
| 9:05-9:40 am | Invited Speaker (BRC Auditorium) Dr. William Cohn, M.D., Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Innovation |
| 9:40-10:15 am | Invited Speaker (BRC Auditorium) Dr. Jacob Robinson Ph.D., Rice University |
| 10:15-10:30 am | Rapid Fire Presentations (BRC Auditorium)
Engineered Extracellular Vesicles via Lipid Hybridization and Layer-by-Layer Approaches for the Co-delivery of Doxorubicin and siRNA in Lung Cancer Cells Quantifying the vasculogenic potential of iPSC-derived endothelial progenitors in collagen hydrogels Shape-changing anisotropic hydrogels as anti-fouling coatings |
| 10:30-10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45-11:20 am | Invited Speaker (BRC Auditorium) Dr. Rachel Sirianna Ph.D., UT Health Science Center |
| 11:20-11:55 am | Invited Speaker (BRC Auditorium) Dr. Renita Horton Ph.D., University of Houston |
| 11:55 am-12:10 pm | Rapid Fire Presentations (BRC Auditorium)
Development of Electrospun Decellularized Muscle-derived Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications Stimulus-responsive drug delivery from PEGylated Polyvinylidene Fluoride- Polypyrrole Core-Shell Fibers Creating physicochemical gradients in microgel scaffolds to gain insight on cell-material interactions |
| 12:10-2:20 pm | Luncheon & Poster Session (Event Space) |
| 2:20-2:55 pm | Invited Speaker (BRC Auditorium) Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar Ph.D., Texas A&M University |
| 2:55-3:30 pm | Invited Speaker (BRC Auditorium) Dr. Omid Veiseh Ph.D., Rice University |
| 3:30-3:45 pm | Break |
| 3:45-4:45 pm | Keynote Presentation (BRC Auditorium) Adam Feinberg Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:45-5:15 pm | Tour of Biomaterials Lab Special registration required. Please meet at the registration table. |
| 4:45-6:30 pm | Reception & Awards (Event Space) |
| 6:30-9:00 pm | Valhalla Social Hosted by the Bioengineering Graduate Student Association |