Students and faculty from the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering are in Baltimore, MD, at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Visit us at Booth 932 and check out our presentations and posters!

 Thursday, Oct 24 

Presentations: 

• 8:30-10am - Yan Carlos Pacheco - Affibody-Functionalized Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Bone Regeneration – rm 322 – Hettiaratchi 

Posters: Session A - 10-11am 

• Hailey Mae Lohf – “Accelerated Long-term Chemical Stability Evaluation of Multichannel Thin-film Implants” – Z9 – Halls EFG – Deku 

• Adam Ruff and Lila Pender – “Composite Tissue Engineered Approach Based on Microfiber Scaffolds to Resist Hydrogel Contraction” – L2 – Halls EFG – Guldberg 

• Natanya Villegas – “Barcoded Assisted Retrieval – CRISPR Activated Targeting (BAR-CAT) Is a Novel Tool for Enriching Synthetic Genes at Scale” – M10 – Halls EFG – Plesa 

 Friday, Oct 25 

BMES/Medtronic Student Design Competition – Finals 

• Jonathan Dorogin – 8:30am – Room 308 

 Posters: Session D - 3:30-4:30pm 

• Jonathan Dorogin – “Shelf-Stable Lattice-Reinforced Affibody-Conjugated Hydrogels for Tunable Protein Delivery In Vivo” – N15 – EFG hall - Hettiaratchi 

• Harper McClain – “A Combined Tissue-Engineered, Immunomodulatory, and Rehabilitative Therapy for Volumetric Muscle Loss” – V13 – Halls EFG - Willett 

Saturday, Oct 26 

Presentations: 

• 11:00-12:15pm – Marian Hettiaratchi (Plenary Session for Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award) - “Precise Protein Delivery: Engineering protein-material affinity interactions for tissue repair” 

• 3:15-3:30pm – Justin Svendsen - Directed evolution enables sequential, affinity-controlled delivery of angiogenic growth factors for vascular network formation – Hettiaratchi  

 Poster: Session E - 10-11am 

• Yanapat Janthana – “Engineering Plastic degrading enzyme with machine learning” – L14 – Halls EFG - Hosseinzadeh