The 1st International Online Conference on Bioengineering
Bioengineering in a Generative AI World
Winner Announcement:
On behalf of the chairs of IOCBE 2024, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Best Oral Presentation Award:
- Etelka Chung: Development of antimicrobial PDMS polymers containing Silver-Copper Nanoparticles for potential applications in biomedical devices
- Mariano Jose Guillen: Exploratory simulation study on high-frequency detection of cell internal structures
- Rupal Kaushik: Biocompatible Surface-Modified MoS2 Nanoflowers for Antibacterial Applications: Unravelling the Mechanistic Insights
Best Poster Award:
- Thauanne Valenca: Symmetry-Based Eye Detection in Facial Images Using Hough Transform for Circles
the chairs
Dear Colleagues,
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, Bioengineering will host its first International Online Conference on 16-18 October 2024. It is my pleasure to announce and extend this open invitation for you to participate.
With a theme of Bioengineering in a Generative AI World, the conference will feature presentations from distinguished scholars at the nexus of engineering and clinics, engineering and food, engineering and industry, and innovations in bioengineering education. Our conference sessions will following the main sections of our journal with specific attention to:
- Regenerative and Tissue Engineering;
- Biomechanics and Sports Medicine;
- Biomedical Biomaterials;
- Nano-Biotechnology;
- Biosignal Processing;
- Biochemical Engineering.
This conference, organized and hosted by MDPI Bioengineering, will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners from different areas to discuss the important recent developments in bioengineering, including bioengineered foods, allotransplantation, multi-omics, theragnostics and bioengineering convergence.
It will represent a great opportunity for the virtual meeting of the interdisciplinary community, aiming to discuss the important breakthroughs in fundamental science undergirding bioengineering, bioengineering technology, and its impact fields in food, industry, environment and animal and human health.
This conference will be a celebration of the contributions of Bioengineering and will feature three awards given for the Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster presented at the conference.
We look forward to your participation.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Bioengineering
Founding Dean of Engineering, Anderson University SC
President and Sr. Fellow, AIIMSEI
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Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineJul 17, 2024
- Abstract acceptance notificationAug 17, 2024
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Luke Pyung-Se Lee
[13:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) | 17 Oct 2024 (Thursday)], Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.;
Luke P. Lee is a Professor at Harvard Medical School. He received his BA and PhD in from UC Berkeley. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1999 after more than a decade of industry experience. He became the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor and the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor at Berkeley. He also served as the Chair Professor in Systems Nanobiology at ETH Zürich. He founded the Biomedical Institute for Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART). He served as Associate President for International Research and Innovation and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. He also founded the Institute for Quantum Biophysics at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. He has authored over 350 research articles, contributed to four book chapters, and holds 60 international patents. He has been honored as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He has received numerous awards, including the IEEE William J. Morlock Award, NSF Career Award, Fulbright Scholar Award, and the HoAm Prize.
Prof. Dr. Molly Shoichet
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada., [13:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) | 18 Oct 2024 (Friday)];
Professor Molly Shoichet is University Professor, a distinction held by less than 2% of the faculty, at the University of Toronto. She served as Ontario’s first Chief Scientist in 2018 where she worked to enhance the culture of science. Dr. Shoichet has published over 800 papers, patents and abstracts and has given over 580 lectures worldwide. She currently leads a laboratory of 30 and has graduated 260 researchers. Her research is focused on drug and cell delivery strategies in the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord, retina) and 3D hydrogel culture systems to model cancer. Dr. Shoichet co-founded four spin-off companies, is actively engaged in translational research and science outreach. Dr. Shoichet is the recipient of many prestigious distinctions and the first person to be inducted into all three of Canada’s National Academies of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, Engineering and Health Sciences. In 2018, Professor Shoichet was inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2011, she was awarded the Order of Ontario. Dr. Shoichet was the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate for North America in 2015, elected Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2016, won the Killam Prize in Engineering in 2017 and elected Fellow to the Royal Society (UK) in 2019. In 2020, Dr. Shoichet was awarded the NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal and won the Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize. In 2022, Dr. Shoichet was elected Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Shoichet received her SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987) and her PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Polymer Science and Engineering (1992).
Prof. Dr. Wai Yee Yeong
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore., [7:10 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) | 16 Oct 2024 (Wednesday)];
Professor Yeong is Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Professor Yeong’s research work focuses on 3D bioprinting, as well as 3D printing of functional materials. She has attracted more than SGD$15M in research grants and published more than 180 papers. She has been recognized with multiple awards including Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders 2024, NRF Investigatorship Class of 2022, Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) 2021 and the Inaugural TCT Woman in 3D Printing Award 2019. She is listed in the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide in a study from Stanford University since 2021, and named Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher 2022.
Prof. Dr. Kristala L. Jones Prather
Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA., [13:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) | 16 Oct 2024 (Wednesday)];
Prof. Dr. Kristala L.J. Prather is the Arthur D. Little Professor and Department Head in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. She received an S.B. degree from MIT in 1994 and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1999), and worked 4 years in BioProcess Research and Development at the Merck Research Labs prior to joining the faculty of MIT. Her research interests are centered on the design and assembly of recombinant microorganisms for the production of small molecules, with additional efforts in novel bioprocess design approaches. Prather’s honors include the Charles Thom Award of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (2017), the Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE, 2021), and the Marvin J. Johnson Award (BIOT Division, American Chemical Society, 2024). Additional honors include selection as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2014-2015), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; 2018), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE; 2020), and AIChE (2020).
Prof. Dr. Chuanbin Mao
Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., [7:10 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) | 17 Oct 2024 (Thursday)];
Chuanbin Mao is currently a Global STEM Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the director of Jockey Club STEM Lab of Nature-Inspired Precision Medical Engineering. He has been elected as a fellow of prestigious professional societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), American Chemical Society (ACS), ACS Division of Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering (PMSE), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), International Academy of Medical & Biological Engineering (IAMBE), and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He is a recipient of multiple awards, including the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles in highly ranked journals such as Chemical Reviews, Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Angewandte Chemie. His current research is focused mainly on phage bioengineering, biomaterials, biosensors, nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, and regenerative medicine. [06/2024: h-index-80, 21877 citations]
Prof. Dr. Tingrui Pan
Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou, China., [7:10 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) | 18 Oct 2024 (Friday)];
Professor Pan Tingrui is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He is currently a Yangtze River Chair Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China and directs the Institute for Innovative Medical Devices (iMED). Before joining USTC, Professor Pan was a tenured Full Professor at UC Davis, where he initiated Global Research Experience in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) Program and directed Center for Nano and Micro-Manufacturing (CNM²). He is currently an Associate Editor of Annals of Biomedical Engineering (TBME) and Journal of Medical Devices (JMD) and serves on the editorial board of Bioengineering and Journal of Chinese Medicine. His research interests span a wide range of bioengineering frontiers, including iontronic sensing, tactile intelligence, medical wearables, microfluidic interfaces and laboratory intelligence. His group has authored over 100 referenced publications on high impact journals and has been granted more than 20 international patents. Notably, Professor Pan is well known for his invention of the world-first flexible iontronic sensor (FITS), as the latest generation of tactile sensing technology, and has successfully translated it from a laboratory prototype to a series of industrial and medical products. For his contribution to both academic innovation and technology translation, Professor Pan has received a number of international awards and domestic recognitions, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Award, Xerox Award, CES Innovation Award, UC Davis Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Early-Career Engineering Faculty Award, and the First Prize of China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
- 1. Regenerative and Tissue Engineering
- 2. Biomechanics and Sports Medicine
- 3. Biomedical Biomaterials
- 4. Nano-Biotechnology
- 5. Biosignal Processing
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10th Anniversary of Bioengineering: Perspectives in Bioengineering
Dear Colleagues,
As Bioengineering celebrates its 10th anniversary, we are looking to highlight and celebrate the success of select bioengineering-focused centers around the world. You are invited to contribute 10,000 words and 5 figures that serve to highlight the major transformative accomplishments (research-to-innovation, bench-to-bedside, fab-to-factory, or innovations that are clearly on a path to doing so) contributed by your center over the last 10 years. Of equal importance and high relevance are contributions to new scientific directions, new methods, and/or new tools that have changed the course of inquiry or are poised to do so. This special 10th Anniversary Commemorative Issue will curate the major accomplishments of a selected number of high-impact centers from around the world.
The deadline is April 15th, 2024.
APC: 100% discount of CHF 2700 (Swiss Francs) = CHF 0.00 (Invited contributors only)
Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354), under its Founding Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, is an open access journal that provides a forum for advances in the science and technology of biological and biomedical engineering and is published monthly online by MDPI. Launched in 2014, Bioengineering will celebrate its 10-year anniversary in 2024 with a Special Commemorative Issue: “Perspectives in Bioengineering”. You are invited to contribute your perspective in this Commemorative Issue.
Perspectives may originate from the vantage point of the several main sections of the journal:
Biomedical Biomaterials (SEiC, Prof. Gary Bowlin, University of Memphis, USA);
Biomechanics and Sports Medicine (SEiC, Dr. Franz Konstantin Fuss, University of Bayreuth, Germany);
Regenerative and Tissue Engineering (SEiC, Elena A. Jones, University of Leeds, UK);
Nano-Biotechnology (SEiC, Dr. Gary Chinga Carrasco, RISE PFI, Norway);
Biosignal Processing (SEiC, Andrea Cataldo University of Salento, Italy);
Biochemical Engineering (SEiC, Prof. Dr. Liang Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
Bioengineering has a reputable Editorial Board comprising well-established researchers such as Prof. Dr. Anthony Atala, Prof. Dr. Eben Alsberg, Prof. Dr. Ali Khademhosseini, Prof. Dr. Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Prof. Dr. Fergal J. O'Brien, Prof. Dr. Jason A. Burdick, Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Prof. Dr. Gary S. Stein, and Prof. Dr. Daniel G. Anderson and is indexed by some leading archival indexing services, including SCIE (IF 4.6), Scopus (CiteScore of 4.2, which equals rank 34/96 (Q2)), PubMed, Web of Science BIOSIS, and INSPEC (IET).
We also welcome any inquiries regarding the form and format of your contribution. We have established 10,000 words and 5 figures as a general guide. However, we can be flexible so that you can tell your impact story as desired.
Prof. Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Prof. Dr. Gary L. Bowlin
Guest Editors