Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Program provisional
| 8:00 | Registration & refreshments (Poster setup) |
| 8:30 | Brian Wall, Assistant Vice President, Research, Commercialization & Industry Partnerships, Oregon State University Introduction |
| Session 1 | Moderator: Joseph McGuire, OSU; Monique Lajeunesse, OSU |
| 8:40 | Joseph Beckman, Distinguished Professor, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University Towards curing ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and other neurodegenerative diseases. |
| 9:00 | Laura Heiser, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health Science University |
| 9:20 | John Bial, CEO, Yecuris Commercial Translation, taking ideas from theory to practice |
| 9:40 | Kristina Young, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute Translational Research: Rational and Relevant Science |
| 10:00 | Discussion |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 | Moderator: Jeff Chang, OSU; Kristof Torkenczy, OHSU |
| 10:50 | Hilary Ely, Life Sciences Applications R&D Engineer, HP Inc. Advancing HP Beyond Ink: Applying HP’s technology to life sciences and healthcare |
| 11:10 | Robyn Tanguay, Distinguished Professor, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University Integrating the power of the zebrafish model with automation to accelerate scientific discoveries |
| 11:30 | Sandra Rugonyi, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health Science University Predicting risks and outcomes in cardiovascular disease. Progress and challenges |
| 11:50 | Yigit Menguc, Assitant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University Soft Robotics combining Soft Materials, Mechanisms, and Manufacturing |
| 12:10 | Discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch and poster session |
| Session 3 | Moderator: Michaele Armstrong, Oregon Bioscience Association; Sigrid Noreng, OHSU |
| 1:30 | Kyle Ellrott, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health Science University Big Data and Cancer Genomics |
| 1:50 | Elain Fu, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Oregon State University Paper-based testing for precision health |
| 2:10 | Matthew Ryder, Research & Development Surface Biochemist, Qorvo Qorvo Biosensors |
| 2:30 | Summer Gibbs, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health Science University |
| 2:50 | Discussion |
| 3:10 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 | Moderator: Summer Gibbs, OHSU; Ward Shalash, OSU |
| 3:40 | Karl Schilke, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Oregon State University Bionanoparticles: A versatile platform technology for personalized medicine and bioprocessing |
| 4:00 | Brian Maloney, Chemical Engineer, Patheon Patheon Oregon Site Overview |
| 4:20 | Greg Herman, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University See Through Sensors |
| 4:40 | Discussion |
| 5:00 | Brett Tyler, Director, Center for Genome Research & Biocomputing, Oregon State University Closing |
| 5:10 – 7:00 | Poster Session and Networking Reception (cash bar) |