The 2025 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting is set to take place in Chicago from April 9–12. This year’s theme, “Half a Century of Progress: Crafting Resilience in Mind and Matter,” highlights the field’s advancements and future directions. We’re excited to have several Knight Campus faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students presenting their work at the conference. Below is a schedule that includes the presenter dates, time, and locations. 

Wednesday, April 9

Alycia Galindo - Hettiaratchi Lab

• Talk: Aligned Hyaluronic Acid-Coated PolycaprolactoneComposite Scaffolds for Muscle Tissue Repair, 1-1:15pm, Fibrous Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering CS1.

Thursday, April 10

Paul Dalton - Dalton Lab 

• Talk: Ultrafast Nanofiber 3D Printing of Polycaprolactone Scaffolds, 8:00-8:30am, Advanced Applications and Novel Methods in 3D Bioprinting 1.

Yan Carlos Pacheco - Hettiaratchi/Willett Labs

• Poster: Optimization of Affibody-Conjugated Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Bone Regeneration, 6:00 - 7:30pm, High Performance Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine #2P630.

Friday, April 11

Tayler Hebner - Previous Benoit Lab Member, Current Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University

• Poster: Leveraging radical-mediated degradation of thiol-maleimide bonds for responsive and programmable hydrogels, 1:30-3:30pm, #3P631.

Cameron Moore - Benoit Lab

• Poster: Designing novel antioxidant and iron-chelating nanoparticles for the treatment of ferroptosis, 4:30-6:00pm, Nanomedicine for Targeted Drug Delivery #3P523.

Vignesh Rangasami - Benoit Lab

• Poster: Investigating the Role of Bone-Targeted Nanoparticles in Osteoclast Modulation, 4:30-6:00pm, Nanomaterials for Immune Modulation #3P507.

Saturday, April 12

Caroline Foskett -  Hettiaratchi Lab

• Talk: An Engineered Hydroxyapatite-Binding Fusion Protein to Improve Localized Delivery of Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (BMP-2) for Bone Regeneration, 8:45-9:00am, CS7. 

Malvika Singhal -  Hettiaratchi Lab

• Talk: Developing and Characterizing an Engineered Collagen-Binding Fusion Protein to Enhance Localized Delivery of Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (BMP-2) for Bone Regeneration, 9:30 - 9:45am, CS7. 

Danielle Benoit - Benoit Lab

Featuring work from the NSF funded Next Gen Biomaterials Conference, hosted at the Knight Campus, and organized by Danielle Benoit

• Panel: Insights & Perspectives from NSF/NIBIB Next Generation Biomaterials, 10:30am-12:30pm, General Session - BLVD C.