Preliminary Agenda

Grand Challenge Oral presentations will be scheduled for 10 minutes with 2-3 additional minutes set aside for Q & A.

1. Imaging - Miniature integrated optical coherence tomography (OCT) - ultrasound (US) probe for intravascular imaging
   Jiawen Li, Jiehen Yi, Xiang Li, Joe Jing, David Mukai, Sari Mahon, Ahmad Edrisd, Khiet Hoang, K. Kirk Shung, Matthew Brenner, Jagat Narula, Qifa Zhou, and Zhongping Chen
2. Tissue Engineering - Lysophosphatidic Acid: A Novel Biochemical Agent for Tissue Engineering Fibrocartilage
   Pasha Hadidi, Kyriacos Athanasiou
3. Biomedical Devices - Lensless On-chip Microscope as a Portable Semen Analysis Device
   Ting-Wei Su, Anthony Erlinger, Derek Tseng, and Aydogan Ozcan
4. Imaging - Ultrasound-Modulated Fluorescent Contrast Agent for Optical Detection of Cancer Lesions in Deep Tissue
   Carolyn Schutt, Michael Benchimol, Mark Hsu, Sadik Esener
5. Modeling - Semi-automated Artificial Pancreas using prandial inhaled insulin and Zone-Model Predictive Control
   Justin Lee, Eyal Dassau, Howard Zisser, Lois Jovanovic, and Francis J. Doyle III
6. Biomedical Devices - Structure-switching aptamer array for reagentless, label-free multiplexed detection of proteins in clinical samples
   Seung Soo Oh, Minseon Cho, H. Tom Soh
7. Imaging - Improving Specificity in Bright-Field Microscopy Images of the Beating Embryonic Heart Via Motion-Based Separation
   Sandeep Bhat, Michael Liebling
8. Drug Delivery - Drug-Eluting Nanofibrous Patches Demonstrate Importance Of Release Kinetics In Spinal Cord Repair
   Timothy L. Downing, Aijun Wang, Zhi-Qiang Yan, Andy Lee, Song Li
9. Imaging - Large-area CMOS position-sensitive solid-state photomultipliers for high resolution multimodality PET/MR imaging
   Jeffrey Schmall, Emilie Roncali, Mickel McClish, Purushottam Dokhale, Kanai Shah, Simon Cherry

1. Integrated Sensors for Wireless Non-contact Cardiac and Neural (ECG/EEG) Monitoring – TATRC Grand Challenge
   Yu Chi, Gert Cauwenberghs
2. TATRC Challenge Awardees Presentation: Enhancing In-Field Detection of Protein Biological Warfare Agents via Aqueous Two-Phase Systems
   Foad Mashayekhi, Ricky Y.T. Chiu, Alexander M. Le, Parsa M. Nafisi, Benjamin M. Wu, Daniel T. Kamei
3. Multimodal Imaging Probes for Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury through Visualization of Activated Microglia (TATRC Challenge Awardees Presentation)
   Erica Andreozzi, Angelique Louie, Bruce Lyeth
4. An Injectable Decellularized Muscle Matrix for Skeletal Muscle Tissue Engineering and its Mitogenic Properties
   Jessica A. DeQuach, Joy E. Lin, Cynthia Cam, Diane Hu, Karen L. Christman
5. Biomaterials And Stem Cells For Nerve Regeneration
   Eugene Zhu, Aijun Wang, Timothy L. Downing, Song Li

1. Nanobiotechnology – Prof. Megan Valentine
2. Bioinformatics – Dr. Ruoting Yang
3. Biomaterials – Dr. Ruoting Yang
4. Stem Cell Engineering – Prof. Karen McCloskey (UC Merced)
5. Imaging I – Prof. Michael Leibling

1. Modeling – Dr. Bharath Ananthasubramaniam
2. Biomaterials – Prof. Kevin Plaxco
3. Biomechanics & Biophysics I – Prof. Megan Valentine
4. Imaging II – Prof. Omar Saleh

• Allergan Medical

• Life Technologies
  • Direct Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) in Blood using Digital CastPCR for Early Cancer Detection
  • The Benchpro 2100 and 4100
• Bruker
  • AFM for Bioengineering: Recent Advances in High Resolution Imaging and Nanomechanical Measurements
• Bio-Rad
  • Protein Electrophoresis, Transfer and Imaging in Just 40 Minutes!

1. Biomedical Devices – Dr. Alexis Vallee-Belisle
2. Drug Delivery – Dr. Vivek Gupta
3. Imaging III – Prof. Aydogan Ozcan (UCLA)

1. Biomedical Devices – Dr. Andrew Bonham
2. Biosensors – Dr. Andrew Bonham
3. Tissue Engineering – Prof. Dan Kamei (UCLA)
4. Biomechanics & Biophysics II – Dr. Benjamin Lopez