Day 1 (Monday, July 8, 2019)

8.30-8.40 Welcome Note – Ali Khademhosseini (UCLA, CNSI)

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

08.40 Ali Khademhosseini (UCLA, CNSI) – Enabling Precision Medicine Through Engineering
09.20 Zhen Gu (UCLA) – Leverage Physiology for Bioresponsive Drug Delivery
10.00 Break
10.30 Steven Jonas (UCLA) – Patient-Centered Engineering in the Cellular Therapy Era
11.10 Utkan Demirci (Stanford) – Innovative Tools to Isolate Extracelluar Vesicles for Broad Applications in Liquid Biopsy and Cardiovascular Research
11.50 Lunch and Networking
13.00 Wei Tao (Harvard/BWH) – Nano-Bio Interactions: Towards Better Understanding and Accelerated Translational Development of Cancer Nanomedicine
13.40 Yvonne Chen (UCLA) – Engineering Next-Generation T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
14.20 Ke Cheng (NCSU) – Next-Generation Therapies for Heart and Lung Diseases: Cells, Secretome, and Exosomes
15.00 Break
15.30 Nasim Annabi (UCLA) – Hydrogel-Based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Surgical Applications
16.10 Ximin He (UCLA) – Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels for Sensing, Sorting, and Dynamic Organoids
16.50 Amir Ghaemmaghami (Nottingham University) – Immune-Instructive Biomaterials for Medical Applications
17.30 Yunfeng Lu (UCLA) – A Nanocapsule-Based Delivery Platform for Therapeutic Applications
18.20 Reception Dinner

Day 2 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)

Microfluidics and Medical Devices

08.30 Rustem F. Ismagilov (Caltech) – Microfluidic Technologies to Diagnose Antibiotic Resistance
09.10 Pei-Yu Chiou (UCLA) – Arbitrarily Shaped, Deep Sub-Wavelength Acoustic Microparticle and Cell Patterning
09.50 Break
10.20 Tzung Hsiai (UCLA)
11.00 Huan Meng (UCLA) – Development of Silicasome Nanoparticle Platform for Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
11.40 Lunch and Poster Session
13.00 Abe Lee (UCI) – Microfluidic Circulation ~ Closing the Loop from In Vitro to In Vivo and from Single Cell to Tissue-Scale
13.40 Leyla Esfandiari (University of Cincinnati) – An Electrokinetically Driven Micro-Device for Rapid Purification and Characterization of Exosomes from Body Fluids 
14.20 Aydogan Ozcan (UCLA) – Toward a Thinking Microscope: Deep Learning-Enabled Computational Microscopy and Sensing
15.00 Break
15.30 Megan McCain (USC) – Disease Modeling with Engineered Microtissues for Heart and Muscle
16.10 Shiladitya Sengupta (MIT) – Cancer Immunology at the Nanoscale
16.50 Dino Di Carlo (UCLA) – Quantum Diagnostics – From Single Cells to Single Molecules

Day 3 (Wednesday, July 10, 2019)

Medical Devices and Biomaterials

08.30 Ashkan Shafiee (Wake Forest) – The Power of Printers from Printed Electronics to Bioprinting
09.10 Alireza Moshaverinia (UCLA) – Dental-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells-mediated Craniofacial Tissue Engineering
09.50 Break
10.20 Liangfang Zhang (UCSD) – WBC-like Nanosponges as a Versatile Biodetoxification Platform
11.00 Heather D. Maynard (UCLA) – Fibroblast Growth Factor 2-Polymer Conjugates for Wound Healing Applications
11.40 Lunch and Poster Session
13.00 Yanli Zhao (Nanyang Technological University) – Supramolecular Nanomedicine
13.40 Ehsan Jabbarzadeh (South Carolina) – Harnessing the Stem Cell Secretome for Wound Healing Applications
14.20 Danilo Demarchi (Turin, Italy) – Bio-Inspired Micro & nano Electronic Systems for Robotics and Biomedical Applications
15.00 Break
15.30 Wei Gao (Caltech) – Wearable Sweat Sensors for Personalized Health Monitoring
16.10 Aydin Babakhani (UCLA) – Wirelessly-Powered Single-Chip Integrated Sensors
16.50 Tohid Didar (McMaster) – Engineering the Bio-Interface at the Micro and Nanoscale for Applications in Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Day 4 (Thursday, July 11, 2018)

Bio-nanotechnology, Translation, and 3D Heals

08.30 Sheng Xu (UCSD) – Adding a New Sensing Dimension to Soft Electronics: From the Skin to Below the Skin The Power of Printers from printed Electronics to Bioprinting
09.10 Reza Ardehali (UCLA) – New Classes of Polymers for Medical Applications
09.50 Break
10.20 Eun Ji Chung (USC) – Peptide-Based Nanomedicine for Kidney and Cardiovascular Disease
11.00 Leonardo Morsut (USC) – Synthetic Genetic Circuits to Control Stem Cell Programs in Tissue Assembly
11.40 Lunch and Poster Session
13.00 Sumita Pennathur (UCSB) – Micro and Nanotechnologies for Precision Medicine
13.40 Ellis Meng (USC) – Flexible Neural Probe Arrays For Large-Scale Cortical and Subcortical Recording
14.20 Michelle Khine (UCI) – Towards Ubiquitous Physiological Monitoring
15.00 Break

3D Heals LA Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Session

15.30 Speaker session – Chandler Robinson (MonoPartx), Gurdane Bhutani (FundRx), Mike Kijewski (MedCrypt) and Jasson Crockett (City of Los Angeles)

16.30 Pitch Competition

Day 5 (Friday, July 12, 2019)

Nanotechnology, Devices and Materials

08.30 Portonovo Ayyaswamy (UPenn) – Computational Modeling of the Fluid Mechanics and Membrane Interactions in the Targeting of Functionalized Nanocarriers to Tissue in Drug Delivery
09.10 Sarah Mojarad (USC) – Social Media in Science and Medicine
09.50 Break
10.20 Paul Weiss (UCLA) – Adding the Chemical Dimension to Lithography at All Scales: Enabling Cellular Therapies & Other Adventures Biology and Medicine
11.00 Timothy Deming (UCLA) – Multifunctional Diblock Copolypeptide Hydrogels for Biological Studies
11.40 Lunch and Poster Session
13.00 Anne Milasincic Andrews (UCLA) – Aptamer-Field-Effect Transistor Neuroprobes: Towards Multimodal Sensing
13.40 Steve J. Forman (COH) – CAR T cells for Treatment of Cancer: Progress and Challenges
14.20 Anwarul Hasan (Qatar University) – Tissue Engineering in Diabetic Wound Healing to Cancer to Cardiovascular Diseases
15.00 Break
15.30 Weian Zhao (UC Irvine) – Emerging Micro-Technologies for Antibiotic Resistance and Cancer Liquid Biopsy Testing and Immunotherapeutic Discovery
16.10 Jun Chen (UCLA) – Smart Textiles for Personalized Health Care
16.50 Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks