Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminars

Title: Medical Robotics for Cell Surgery
Date: February 9, 2023, 4:00-5:00 PM PT
Location: Annenberg 105
Speaker: Yu Sun, Professor Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, with joint appointments in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electical and Computer Engineering,, and Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Title: Medical photoacoustic imaging using optical ultrasound detection: from light to sound…and back
Date: February 2, 2023, 4:00-5:00 PM PT
Location: Annenberg 105
Speaker: Professor Paul Beard, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London

Title: Action, Lights, Sound: Using Photoacoustics to Probe Changes in Tissue Structure During Cancer Treatment With Nanobubbles
Date: January 12, 2023, 4:00-5:00 PM PT
Location: Annenberg 105
Speaker: Professor Michael Kolios, Department of Physics at Ryerson University, Associate Dean of Research, Innovation and External Partnerships in the Faculty of Science at Toronto Metropolitan University

Title: Bone Bioengineering: Microstructure, Mechanics, Mechanobiology, and Beyond
Date: December 1, 2022, 4:00-5:00 PM PT
Location: Annenberg 105
Speaker: X. Edward Guo, Chair and Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine), Bone Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Title: The Invisible Hand: How Giant Susceptibility Nanomaterials Enable Field-Directed Cell Sorting, Tissue Heating, and Biological Imaging
Date: November 10, 2022, 4:00-5:00 PM PT
Location: Annenberg 105 (Social to follow the seminar in the Moore Courtyard)
Speaker: Vicki Colvin, Professor of Chemistry and Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Brown University

Title: Opportunities and Challenges of Ultrasound-Mediated Neuromodulation and Drug Delivery from the Perspective of a Biologist Working in the Alzheimer Space
Date: October 21, 2022, 4:00-5:00 PM PT
Location: Annenberg 105
Speaker: Professor Jürgen Götz, Queensland Brain Institute, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Title: Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Decision-Making in the Age of AI
Date: July 28, 2022, 2:00-3:00 PM PT
Location Hybrid: Annenberg 105 / Join Zoom Event
Speaker: Professor Lei Xing, Jacob Haimson & Sarah S. Donaldson Professor, Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics, Stanford University

Title: Ultrasound Imaging in Neuroscience
Date: June 17, 2022, 4:00–5:00 PM PST
Location: Chen 100
Speaker: Mickael Tanter, French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, Institute Physics for Medicine Paris

Title: A Photoacoustic-ultrasound Transmission Breast Tomography System: System Overview and First Imaging Results
Date: May 19, 2022, 12:00–1:00 PM PST
Location: Join Zoom Event
Speaker: Professor Srirang Manohar, Multi-Modality Medical Imaging, University of Twente, Netherlands

Title: High-Performance Printed Electronics for Robots and Interactive Systems
Date: May 16, 2022, 4:00–5:00 PM PST
Location Hybrid: B270 Moore / Join Zoom Event
Speaker: Professor Ravinder Dahiya, FIEEE, FRSE, Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering and EPSRC Research Fellow, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK

Title: Biomedical Device Development for Gastrointestinal Applications
Date: May 26, 2022, 4:00–5:00 PM PST
Location Hybrid: Annenberg 105 / Join Zoom Event
Speaker: Giovanni Traverso, MB, BChir, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Title: Bioelectronics with nanocarbons – forming I/O with tissue and cells
Date: April 7, 2022, 4:00–5:00 PM PST
Location Hybrid: Annenberg 105 / Join Zoom Event
Speaker: Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Bringing Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation into Focus
Date: February 17, 2022, 4:00–5:00 PM PST
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Speaker: Professor Kim Butts, Department of Radiology, Stanford University

Title: Biomolecular Engineering to Realize Continuous, Real-time, in vivo Biosensing System
Date: December 2, 2021, 4:00–5:00 PM PST
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Speaker: Professor Koji Sode, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University

Title: Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine
Date: November 18, 2021, 9:00–10:00 AM PST
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Speaker: George Malliaras, Department of Engineering Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge

Title: Building Biomolecular Sensors for a New Era of Physiological Monitoring
Date: November 11, 2021, 4:00–5:00 PM PST
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Speaker: Professor Shana Kelley, Northwestern University

Title: Electronic Skins for Medical and Sports Applications
Date: May 27, 2021, 4:00–5:00 PM PST
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Speaker: Takao Someya, Ph.D., The University of Tokyo

Title: Continuous Measurements of Biomolecules in Live Subjects
Date: February 25, 2021, 4:00–5:00 PM
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Speaker: Dr. Tom Soh, Stanford University

Title: Unconventional Bioelectronics based on Soft Materials and Wireless Technology
Date: February 18, 2021, 4:00–5:00 PM
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Speaker: Dae-Hyeong Kim, PhD, Professor, School of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Seoul National University

Title: Noninvasive Drug Delivery, Immunomodulation and Neuromodulation using Focused Ultrasound
Date: February 4, 2021, 4:00–5:00 PM
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Speaker: Professor Elisa Konofagou, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Title: AAVHSC: A Novel Genetic Medicine Platform for Gene Therapy & Genome Editing
Date: January 21, 2021, 4:00–5:00 PM
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Speaker: Saswati Chatterjee, PhD, City of Hope

Title: Light and Sound: Integrating Photonics with Ultrasonics
Date: January 7, 2021, 4:00–5:00 PM
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Speaker: Matt O'Donnell, PhD, Frank and Julie Jungers Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle

Title: Artificial Skin Perception
Date: November 19, 2020, 4:00–5:00 PM
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Speaker: Xiaodong Chen, Director of Innovative Centre for Flexible Devices (iFLEX) and the Director of Max Planck at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)

Title: GI Device Development in a Few Movements
Date: May 7, 2020, 4:00–5:00 PM (Social to follow)
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Giovanni Traverso, Gastroenterologist in the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Title: High-Performance MRI applications that benefit from Low-Field
Date: February 27, 2020, 4:00–5:00 PM (Social to follow)
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Krishna Nayak, Electrical and Computer Engineering (joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Radiology), Viterbi School of Engineering - University of Southern California

Title: Optically Detecting Structure and Granularity in Tissues
Date: January 23, 2020, 4:00–5:00 PM (Social to follow)
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Steven Jacques, Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle

Title: Small-scale Wireless Robots for Medical Applications
Date: January 16, 2020, 4:00–5:00 PM (Social to follow)
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Metin Sitti, Professor

Title: Seminar Cancelled
Date: January 9, 2020, 4:00–5:00 PM (Social to follow)
Location: Moore B270
Speaker: Yoram Rudy, Director, Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC), Washington University in St. Louis

Title: Microfluidics for Disease Diagnosis and Wearable Technology – From Bench to Bedside
Date: October 10, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM (Social to follow)
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim, Director, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology, National University of Singapore

Title: Discovery and Translation of the Cell Membrane Coating Nanotechnology
Date: November 7, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM (Social to follow)
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Liangfang Zhang, PhD, Professor of Department of Nanoengineering, Bioengineering, and Chemical Engineering, University of California San Diego

Title: Cell Engineering for Tissue Regeneration
Date: December 5, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Song Li, Ph.D., Chancellor Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, UCLA, Samueli School of Engineering

Title: Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUTs) in medical ultrasound imaging and therapy
Date: May 16, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub, Stanford Univeristy

Title: Epigenetic Regulation of Mechanotransduction in Vascular Endothelium
Date: May 9, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Shu Chien, M.D., Ph.D., Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California San Diego

Title: Exploiting Information and Communication Theory in Biology and Neuroscience
Date: May 2, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Andrea Goldsmith, Ph.D., Stanford University

Title: ChemoFilter: Novel Endovascular Medical Devices to Reduce the Toxicity of Chemotherapy
Date: April 25, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speakers: Steven W. Hetts, M.D., Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
Anand S. Patel, M.D., Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Centers-Torrance & San Pedro, A Research Associate of Radiology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center

Title: Skin-Inspired Polymer Electronic Materials and Devices
Date: April 18, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Zhenan Bao, Ph.D., Director, Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR), Stanford University

Title: Microfluidic Living Neuronal Networks as Disease-on-Chip models for Neurobiological Research and Drug Evaluation
Date: April 11, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Etienne Jacotot, Neuronal Stress and Ageing (NSA), Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine

Title: Advances in Functional Optical Coherence Tomography: Translation of FOCT Technology From Bench to Bedside
Date: March 7, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Zhongping Chen, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, The Edwards Life Sciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, University of California, Irvine

Title: Activating Ion Channels with Drugs and Ultrasound
Date: February 7, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Jianmin Cui, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: Multimodality Functional Imaging of Brain Tumor
Date: January 31, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Nitish V. Thakor, Professor, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology

Title: On the Motion of the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) and its Role in Disease Processes of the Central Nervous System (CNS)
Date: January 24, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Juan Lasheras, Stanford and Beverly Penner Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University California San Diego (UCSD)

Title: Quantitative Radiomics and Machine Learning in Breast Cancer Image Analysis
Date: January 17, 2019, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Maryellen L. Giger, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology, University of Chicago

Title: Cardiovascular Biomineralization
Date: October 25, 2018, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Linda L. Demer, University California Los Angeles

Title: Microfabrication of Elastomeric Polymers for Organ-on-a-chip Engineering and Injectable Tissues
Date: May 17, 2018, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Milica Radisic, University of Toronto, Canada

Title: New Strategies in Image-guided Interventions
Date: May 10, 2018, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Kathy Ferrara, University of California - Davis

Title: Biologically Inspired Engineering: From Mechanotherapeutics to Human Organs-on-Chips
Date: May 3, 2018, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Donald Ingber, Harvard University

Title: Out of this World Med Techs for Space and Earth
Date: April 12, 2018, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Dorit Donoviel, Translational Research Institute for Space Health

Title: Computational Modeling of the Mitral Heart Valve: From Mechanobiology to Surgical Repair
Date: April 5, 2018, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Michael Sacks, University of Texas at Austin

Title: Faculty will discuss research being conducted in their labs
Date: March 1, 2018, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Faculty from the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering

Title: Printable Wearable Electrochemical Sensors: Toward Lab on the Body
Date: February 8, 2018, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Joseph Wang, University California San Diego (UCSD)

Title: Technology Transfer for Medical Device Development FDA Approval Challenges (Using Logicon Caries Detector as example)
Date: February 1, 2018, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: David Gakenheimer, President, GA Industries

Title: Soft Electronics for the Human Body
Date: January 11, 2018, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: John Rogers, Northwestern University

Title: Broad-Spectrum Electronic Biomolecular Sensing
Date: November 30, 2017, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Roger T. Howe, Faculty Director of Nanofabrication Facility, Stanford University

Title: Protein Aggregates and Potential Immunogenicity in Biotherapeutics
Date: November 2, 2017, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Linda Narhi, PhD, Scientific Executive Director, Process Development, Amgen

Title: Redefining the Drug Discovery Pathway-From Drug Candidate Search to Phenotypic Personalized Medicine (PPM)
Date: October 12, 2017, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Chih-Ming Ho, Distinguished Research Professor, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University California Los Angeles

Title: Engineering Viruses for Cancer Therapy
Date: February 2, 2017, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Dr. Yuman Fong, M.D., Chair, Department of Surgery, City of Hope

CANCELLED Title: Extreme Environments as Catalysts for Disruptive Innovation
Date: April 13, 2017, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Scott Parazynski, MD, Astronaut, Everest Climber, Physician, Pilot, Inventor

Title: Interplay of Materials and Mechanics in Rapid 3D Printing of Precision Tissues
Date: November 10, 2016, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Shaochen Chen, Ph.D., Professor of NanoEngineering and Bioengineering Departments, Co-Director, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Center, University of California, San Diego

Title: Biodesign: The Process of Innovating New Medical Technologies
Date: November 3, 2016, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Josh Makower, MD, General Partner, Healthcare Team, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

Title: Implantable Biomedical Microsystems: Permanent and Biodegradable Devices
Date: October 6, 2016, 4:10–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Mark Allen, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor and Director, Singh Center for Nanotechnology, University of Pennsylvania

Title: TBD
Date: February 25, 2016, 4:00–5:00 PM - Cancelled
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Kurt Petersen, PhD, American Inventor

Title: Precision Medicine: A Journey Through Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Commerce
Date: February 4, 2016, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Ryan Egeland, Senior Director of Business Development Licensing, Medtronic, Inc.

Title: Innovations in Patient Monitoring: A Masimo Story
Date: January 14, 2016, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Joe Kiani, Founder, Chairman CEO of Masimo Corporation

Title: Microengineered Hydrogels for Stem Cell Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
Date: December 3, 2015, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Ali Khademhosseini, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Title: MEMS, a Perspective from Berkeley
Date: November 5, 2015, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Richard S. Muller, Professor, Director of Dept. of EECS, BSAC , University of California Berkeley

Title: Rays vs. Shadows: Fighting Global Blindness through Ophthalmic Genetic Bioengineering
Date: October 22, 2015, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Balamurali K. Ambati, University of Utah

Title: Presbyopia: The Final Frontier in Vision-Correction Surgery
Date: October 15, 2015, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Daniel Chang, MD, Empire Eye Laser Center

Title: The Advent of Ultrafast Imaging in Biomedical Ultrasound
(Jointly hosted with CNS)
Date: May 7, 2015, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Mickaël Tanter, Ph.D, French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM)

Title: Innovation in Rare Diseases in the Real World
Date: April 2, 2015, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: James E. Lock, Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston

Title: Calhoun Vision: The Excitement and Perils of Physician Driven Innovation
Date: May 22, 2014, 4:10–5:10 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Dan Schwartz, Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Director of the Retina Division at UCSF

Title: Making waves in biomedical imaging with micro-ultrasound
Date: April 10, 2014, 4:10–5:10 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: F. Stuart Foster, Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Professor and Canada Research Chair in Ultrasound Imaging, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto

Title: Update on Argus II Retinal Prosthesis Study
Date: March 13, 2014, 4:10–5:10 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Mark S. Humayun, Director of the USC Eye Institute and the USC Sensory Science Institute

Title: Converging low power microelectronics, IT and Communication Technology into Implantable Medical Devices
Date: February 27, 2014, 4:10–5:10 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Stephen N. Oesterle, Director of the UCSF Pediatric Device Consortium

Title: Innovation: Fetal Surgery to Pediatric Device Consortium
Date: February 13, 2014, 4:10–5:10 PM
Location: 105 Annenberg
Speaker: Michael R. Harrison, Director of the UCSF Pediatric Device Consortium