2019 Annual Conference


The event will open with plenary keynote talks by nationally recognized leaders, followed by an award ceremony and a lunch session in which IEM leaders will outline an overview of the Institute and options for engagement. The conference will end in the afternoon with a student poster session that highlights the research of faculty members and their groups, and a poster competition that will result in several awards being given for the best student posters.

IEM's Annual Conference shall offer rich opportunities for participants to develop interdisciplinary collaborations between health sciences and engineering, and form teams of collaborators responding to federal/external funding opportunities.

 

2019 IEM Annual Conference
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Jakob Tolar - IEM Annual Conference 2019

Jakub Tolar
University of Minnesota Medical School

Brenda Ogle - IEM Annual Conference 2019

Brenda Ogle
University of Minnesota.

Melissa Geller - IEM Annual Conference

Melissa Geller
University of Minnesota

Bruce Tromberg - IEM Annual Conference

Bruce Tromberg
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

8:30 - 9:00 am Networking

9:00 - 9:05 am Welcome Remarks
Mostafa Kaveh, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota

9:05 - 9:30 am State of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine
John Bischof, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Engineering in Medicine
University of Minnesota

9:30 - 10:00 am Distinguished Keynote Talk
Symbiosis and Autopoiesis of Engineering and Medicine
Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean of the Medical School and Vice President for Clinical Affairs
University of Minnesota

10:00 - 10:30 am Distinguished Keynote Talk
Critical Partnerships Drive Healthcare Innovation: A Biomedical Engineering
Perspective
Brenda Ogle, Ph.D.
Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Stem Cell Institute
University of Minnesota

10:30 - 10:45 am Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15 am Distinguished Keynote Talk
Guiding Biomedical Innovation to Meet Clinical Needs in Ovarian Cancer
Treatment: Why We Struggle to Win the Fight
Melissa Geller, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor and Division Director of Gynecologic Oncology
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
University of Minnesota

11:15 - 11:45 am Distinguished Keynote Talk
Engineering the Future of Health
Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D.
Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National
Institutes of Health
Director, Beckman Laser Institute, Medical Clinic and Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Surgery, University of California, Irvine

11:45 am - 12:00 pm IEM Awards
2018-2019 IEM Group Grant Recipients Engineering in Medicine Doctoral Fellowship Recipients

Industrial Fellows Inductees:

  • Dawn Bardot, Ph.D. - Director, Cloud-based Service Technologies, Abiomed
  • Mark Hjelle - Senior Product Line Manager, Heraeus Medical Components
    Adrienne Watson, Ph.D. - Vice President of Research and Development, Recombinetics
  • Heather Webb - Front End Innovation Manager, 3M

12:15 - 1:30 pm Lunch Sessions

  • Room 1: Strategic Research Initiatives - Johnson Great Room
    David Odde, Ph.D.
    Medtronic Endowed Associate Director, Strategic Research Initiatives,
    Institute for Engineering in Medicine
     
  • Room 2: Professional Education and Outreach - Ski-U-Mah
    Paul Iaizzo, Ph.D.
    Medtronic Endowed Associate Director, Professional Education and
    Outreach, Institute for Engineering in Medicine
     
  • Room 3: Student Career Development (ending at 1:10) - Heritage Gallery
    Moderator: Matthew Johnson, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor and Institute for Translational Neuroscience
    Scholar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

    “Preparing for a Career in Academia”
    Cari S. Dutcher, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    “Preparing for a Career in Industry”
    Perry B. Hackett, Ph.D.
    Professor, Center for Genome Engineering, Department of Genetics,
    Cell Biology and Development

1:30 - 2:50 pm Student and Postdoctoral Poster Session* and Networking

2:50 - 3:00 pm Poster Award Announcements
David Odde, Ph.D.
Medtronic Endowed Associate Director, Institute for Engineering in Medicine

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Cancer Winners

1st "A Pseudo-Energy Landscape Analysis Highlights the Role of Single-Cell Heterogeneity in Cancer Dormancy"

Harish Venkatachalapathy, Hak Rae Lee, Samira M. Azarin, Casim A. Sarkar; Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

2nd "The Role of Motor-Clutch Mediated Migration in Glioblastoma Progression"

Sarah Anderson, University of Minnesota

3rd "Engineering Multifunctional Ligand-Enzyme Fusions for Early Cancer Detection"

Abbigael Harthorn and Benjamin Hackel; Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Cardiovascular Engineering Winners

1st "A Novel Model of Intracranial Aneurysm to Guide the Development of Less Invasive Therapies"

Casey Chitwood, Theodore Jennings, Duane Nguyen, Andrew Grande, and Brenda Ogle; Biomedical Engineering, Stem Cell Institute, Masonic Cancer Center, Lillehei Heart Institute, Institute for Engineering in Medicine, Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota
Biology, Macalester College; Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin

2nd "Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is an Arrhythmic Heart Condition"

Yugene Guo, Jieun Lee, Vasanth Ravikumar, and Elena Tolkacheva; University of Minnesota

2nd "Diffusion and Toxicity Limited Cryopreservation of Arteries with Radiofrequency Heated Metal Forms"

Zonghu Han, Zhe Gao, Anirudh Sharma, and John Bischof; University of Minnesota

2nd "Novel Mapping Techniques for Phase Singularity Detection using Simulated Intracardiac Electrograms" 

Vasanth Ravikumar, Elizabeth Annoni, Preethy Parthibhan, Sharon Zlochiver, Siva Mulpuru, and Elena Tolkacheva; Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Mayo Clinic

Medical Devices Winners

1st "Unique Computational Visualization of a Vessel Manipulation During Large Bore Transcatheter Insertions Viewed in Virtual Reality"

Mikayle A. Holm, Rohan Thakur, Tinen L. Iles, and Paul A. Iaizzo; Electrical Engineering, Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota

2nd "Computational Modeling of Transradial Catheterization: Development of Educational and Translational Models"

Matthew Welter, Mikayle Holm, Alex Deakyne, Tinen Iles, Paul Iaizzo; Visible Heart® Laboratories, Institute for Engineering in Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Surgery University of Minnesota

2nd "Transseptal Puncture with Large-Bore Transcatheter Delivery Systems: Investigations into Crossing Forces, Atrial Septum Dilation, and Tissue Damage to the Fossa Ovalis"

Jorge D. Zhingre Sanchez, Michael G. Bateman, Paul A. Iaizzo; Visible Heart® Laboratories, Institute for Engineering in Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, University of Minnesota

Frontier and Emerging Areas Winners

1st "Validating Coating Method of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Nanowarming"

Jacqueline Pasek-Allen, Zhe Gao, Anna Rudie, Rameshu Rallabandi, Jon Rainier, and John Bischof; Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Chemistry, University of Utah

2nd "Modeling, Simulation, and Coevolutionary Study of TLQP-21 Peptide and its Cognate Complement 3a Receptor 1 (C3aR1)"

Megin Nguyen, Bhavani S. Sahu, Alessandro Bartolomucci, and Yuk Y. Sham; Integrative Biology and Physiology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, University of Minnesota

2nd "Diagnostic Nanoplatforms: Engineering Multifunctional Fluorinated Nanosensors for 19 F MRI Diagnostic Applications"

Amani Lee, Christy L. Haynes, and William C.K. Pomerantz; University of Minnesota

Neural Winners

1st "Highly Tunable, Ultra-Low Power, Cellular-Level, Magnetic Neurostimulation through Flexible Spintronic Nanostructures"

Renata Saha, Kai Wu, Diqing Su, and Jian-Ping Wang; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota

2nd "Behavioral and Electrophysiological Characterization of Harmaline-Tremor as a Preclinical Model of Essential Tremor"

Edward Bello, M. Blumenfeld, J.K. Dao, F. Guedes, and M.D. Johnson; Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

2nd "Large-Scale, High-Resolution Brain Sensing with Flexible Magnetic Nanosensors"

Diqing Su, Kai Wu, Chaoyi Peng, Renata Saha, Walter Low, and Jian-Ping Wang; University of Minnesota

Regenerative Medicine and Transplantation Winners

1st "Microfluidic Real Time Metabolic Analysis of iPSC Derived RPE"

Jane Baude, Kevin Viken, Lou Kidder, Deborah Ferrington, James Dutton, and Bruce Hammer; Stem Cell Institute, Therapeutic Radiology, Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota

Postdoctoral Winners

1st "A Novel Method to Study the Dynamics of Influenza Virus Replication for Enhancing Vaccine Productivity"

Thu Phan, Elizabeth J. Fay, Christopher Stach, Ryan A. Langlois, and Wei-Shou Hu; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota

2nd "Novel Measure of Ankle Proprioceptive Acuity"

Jessica Holst-Wolf and A. Mahnan, J. Konczak; University of Minnesota

2nd "Generation of Inner Ear Neurons Using a Blastocyst Complementation in a Neurog1-deficient Mouse"

Aleta Steevens, Griesbach, M., You, Y., Koeingsberg, C., Sanders, M., Low, W., and Santi, P.; University of Minnesota