National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting: Engineering Therapies for the Future

Description

The central theme of the symposium is transferring innovation from the laboratory through commercialization to the clinic to improve healthcare across the planet. All of the eminent speakers have had major impact on healthcare through innovative research combined with either federal leadership or entrepreneurship.

Schedule

8:30 to 10:00 a.m. – Breakfast and meeting for NAE members
9 to 10 a.m. – Hunt Library tours
10 a.m. – Meeting opens
10:15 a.m. – Welcome by NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson
10:45 a.m. – Bruce Tromberg, Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, “Engineering the Future of Health”
11:20 a.m. – Laura Niklason, NAM, “Will Engineering Tissues Change Clinical Care?”
11:55 a.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. – Rodolphe Barrangou, NAE/NAM, “The CRISPR Genome Editing Craze: Opportunities and Challenges”
2:05 p.m. – Mark Humuyan, NAE/NAM, “Advanced Retinal Implants”
2:40 p.m. – Len Pinchuk, NAE, “Polymers in Implantable Medical Devices”
3:15 p.m. – Coffee break
3:45 p.m. – Stephen Oesterle, Venture Partner,  New Enterprise Associates, “Distributed Healthcare through Wearable and Implantable Devices”
4:20 p.m. – Jay Bradner, President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, “A New Science of Therapeutics”
5 to 6 p.m. – Reception