Distinguished Lectureship

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2016-2017 Schedule

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2018-2019

March 2019

Presenter:	Jennifer H. Elisseeff, PhD Morton Goldberg Professor Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Topic:	“Lessons in Regenerative Medicine Translation: Are We Designing for the Right Therapeutic Target?”
Location :	Place and time to be determined

March 2018

Presenter:	Molly S Shoichet, PhD, FRSC, O. Ont. University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tissue Engineering Senior Advisor to President on Science & Engineering Engagement Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry University of Toronto
Topic:	“Regenerative Strategies in the Central Nervous System”
Location :	University Club, 123 University Place, 8:15 am

March 2017

Presenter:	Mark S. Slaughter, MD Professor and Chair Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery University of Louisville
Topic:	“Future Role of MCS in the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure”
Location :	157 Benedum Hall, 4:00 pm

March 2016

Presenter:	Robert Bartlett, MD Professor Emeritus of Surgery University of Michigan
Topic:	“ECLS, Past, Present, and Future”
Location:	Scaife Auditorium 5, 4:00 pm

December 2015

Presenter:	Frederick J. Schoen, MD, PhD Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Pathology Brigham and Women’s Hospital Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Harvard Medical School
Topic:	“Past, Present and Future of Heart Valve Replacement Technology: Collaborative Innovation in Design, Biomaterials and Cell-Matrix Biology”
Location:	University Club, Ball Room B, 4:00 pm

April 2015

Presenter:	George Daley, MD, PhD Samuel E. Lux, IV Professor of Hematology/Oncology Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Boston Children’s Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Topic:	“Stem cells and the future of biomedicine”
Location:	University Club, Ball Room A, 4:00 pm

March 2015

Presenter:	Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD Mikati Foundation Professor Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences Columbia University
Topic:	“Tissue Engineering: Into the Era of Personalized Medicine”
Location:	Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, 8:00 am

March 2014

Presenter:	Mina Bissell, PhD Distinguished Scientist, Life Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Topic:	“The Critical Role of Extracellular Matrix and Microenvironment in Metastasis and Dormancy”
Location:	Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, 10:00 am

October 2013

Presenter:	Glenn D. Prestwich, PhD Presidential Professor and Director, Center for Therapeutic Biomaterials Special Presidential Assistant for Faculty Entrepreneurism Department of Medicinal Chemistry University of Utah
Topic:	“The Entrepreneurial Ecosytem and its Role in Translating Hyaluronan Materials to the Clinic”
Location:	University Club, Ball Room A, 4:00 pm

March 2013

Presenter:	Katarina Le Blanc, MD, PhD Professor, Hematology Center, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge Assistant Head of the Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Topic:	“Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treatment of Graft-versus-Host Disease”
Location:	Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, 8:30 am

January 2013

Presenter:	Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine Director, Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging, Stanford University School of Medicine Chief, Neurology Service,Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care Systems Director, Rehabilitation R&D Center of Excellence,Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care Systems
Topic:	“Enhancing Stem Cell Function for Skeletal Muscle Repair and Regeneration”
Moleculart Artist:	John Pollock, PhD
Location:	Lecture: University Club, Ball Room A, 4:00 pm Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: University Club, Gold Room, 5:00 pm

March 2012

Presenter:	Leonard I. Zon, MD Grousbeck Professor of Pediatric Medicine, Harvard Medical School Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director of the Stem Cell Program, Children’s Hospital Boston
Topic:	“Pathways Regulating Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation”
Location:	Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, 8:30 am

February 2012

Presenter:	C. James Kirkpatrick, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FBSE Professor and Director, Institute of Pathology University Medical Center Johannes Gutenberg University
Topic:	“The Application of Human Co-Culture Systems to Understand Regenerative and Cancer Niches”
Moleculart Artist:	Simona Nemcova, RDMS, RVT
Location:	Lecture: University Club, 2nd floor, Ballroom B, 4:00 pm -Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: University Club, 1st floor, Ballroom A, 5:00 pm

February 2011

Presenter:	Wise Young, MD, PhD Director, W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Topic:	“What Stem Cells Can’t Do”
Moleculart Artist:	Michael Yonas, PhD
Location:	Lecture: Scaife Hall, 4th floor, Auditorium 5, 4:00 pm Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: Scaife 1105A & B

November 2010

Presenter:	David S. Smith, JD Attorney at Law Pepper Hamilton LLP
Topic:	“From Tissue Engineering to Regenerative Therapeutics – Impressions of the Evolution of Promise into Practice and the Search for the Business of Us”
Moleculart Artist:	Pattie Woo
Location:	Lecture: University Club, 2nd floor, Ballroom B, 4:00 pm Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: University Club, 1st floor, Ballroom A, 5:00 pm

March 2010

Presenter:	Buddy Ratner, PhD Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, and Director, Engineered Biomaterials NSF Engineering Research Center University of Washington
Topic:	“New Thoughts on Healing and Regeneration: Healing in Hole”
Location:	Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

January 2010

Presenter:	Kristi Anseth, PhD Tisone Professor, Associate Professor of Surgery, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator University of Colorad
Topic:	“Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration: Cellular Control in a Couple of Clicks”
Moleculart Artist:	Amalia Labbruzzo
Location:	Lecture: Scaife Hall, 4th floor, Auditorium 5, 4:00 pm Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: Scaife 1105A & B

April 2009

Presenter:	Marie E. Csete, MD, PhD Chief Scientific Officer California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Topic:	“Roadblocks to translation of hES cell-derived therapies”
Moleculart Artist:	Center for Biological Imaging
Location:	Lecture: Scaife Hall, 4th Floor, Auditorium 5, 4:00 pm Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: Scaife 1105A & B

March 2009

Presenter:	Jeffrey A. Hubbell, LMRP Professor of the School of Life Sciences Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Topic:	“Biofunctional Materials in Regenerative Medicine and Immunotherapeutics”
Location:	Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

October 2008

Presenter:	Arnold I. Caplan, PhD Professor of Biological Science, Director of the Skeletal Research Center Case Western Reserve University
Topic:	“Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells: New Cell-based Therapies for Regenerative Medicine”
Moleculart Artist:	Jason Shorr
Location:	Lecture: Scaife Hall, 4th Floor, Auditorium 5, 4:00 pm Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: Scaife 1105A & B

November 2007

Presenter:	Douglas Lauffenburger, PhD Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic:	“What Are Cells Thinking?—An Engineering Approach to Understanding Signaling Networks Governing Cell Behavior”
Moleculart Artist:	Ruben Zamora, MD

March 2008

Presenter:

Irving L. Weissman, MD
Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research
Professor of Developmental Biology, Neurosurgery, and Biological Sciences
Stanford University

Topic:

“Stem Cells-What’s New?”

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Lecture: Scaife Hall, 4th Floor, Auditorium 5, 4:00 pm
Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: BST South 100

April 2008

Presenter:	Karen Hirschi, PhD Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicin
Topic:	The Study of Vascular Morphogenesis Enables Tissue Engineering
Location :	Lecture: Scaife Hall, 4th Floor, Auditorium 5, 4:00 pm Reception and Moleculart Exhibit: BST South 100 Seminar announcement for distribution and posting

February 2007

Presenter:

Nicholas Peppas, ScD
Fletcher Pratt Chair of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceutics at the
University of Texas at Austin
Director of Center on Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Bionanotechnology and Molecular
Recognition
Director of National Science Foundation Program on Cellular and Molecular Imaging for
Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Topic:

“Nanostructured biomaterials and surfaces for biological recognition”

Location:

Graduate School of Public Health, 130 Desoto Street, Room G23, 4:00 pm

January 2007

Presenter:

Art Coury, PhD
Vice President Biomaterials Research
Genzyme

Topic:

“Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine: Perceptions, Realities and Implications”

Location:

Graduate School of Public Health, 130 Desoto Street, Room G23, 4:00 pm

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