Schedule at a Glance

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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Normandie Lounge

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4D
  • Biodegradable Metallic Particle-Infused Composite Platform for Enhanced Wound Healing
  • Smart Wearable Photonic Healthcare Materials and Devices
4C
  • 3D bioprinting complex tissues
  • Biomaterials for Translational Regenerative Medicine Applications
  • t Polymerization-based 3D Printing for Medical Device and Tissue Engineering Applications
BLVD C
  • How to Interact with the FDA
Marquette
  • Standalone stretchable device platform for Biomedicine

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BLVD B
  • Deciphering Neutrophil Dynamics: Enhanced Phagocytosis of Elastic Particles and Impact on Vascular Targeted Carrier Performance
  • Engineering Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Only Small Artery Scale Vascular Grafts and Branched Vasculature of Varying Geometries through 3D Bioprinting
  • Modulating Sympathetic Nerve Regeneration for Vascular Remodeling in Peripheral Vascular Grafts
  • PEG-Collagen Interpenetrating Networks Support Enhanced Vasculogenesis
  • Peptide-PEG DSPE Coatings for Targeted Mitochondria Delivery to the Vascular Endothelium
  • Sacrificial Alginate Microfibers for Enhancing Vasculogenic Assembly in Dense Hydrogels
BLVD C
  • Comparison of Fatty Acid-Modified Electrospun Chitosan Membrane for Guided Bone Regeneration as Compared to a Collagen Membrane in a Porcine Mandibular Defect Model
  • Conditional Knockout of Agrin in Osteocytes Compromises Bone Homeostasis and Titanium Osseointegration
  • Effect of pore size and dose of BMP-functionalized β-tricalcium phosphate scaffolds on osteogenesis and bone regeneration of critical-size femoral defects in rabbits
  • Engineering Alpha-Ketoglutarate for Craniofacial Bone Regeneration
  • Manganese Dioxide Nanoparticles Enhance the Osteogenesis of Porous β-tricalcium Phosphate Scaffolds
  • Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) Bioglass Composite Scaffolds Designed to Heal Complex Bone Defects
BLVD A
  • Aligned Hyaluronic Acid-Coated Polycaprolactone Composite Scaffolds for Muscle Tissue Repair
  • Fiber-reinforced Extracellular Matrix Mimicking Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • Locale of Calcium Carbonate Nucleation Among Nonwoven Hemp Organic-Inorganic Composites for Bone Scaffolding
  • Nanoscale Porosity-Controlled Release from Sintered Electrospun Polycaprolactone and Polyethylene Terephthalate
  • Sodium hydroxide surface treatment of electrospun poly(ε-caprolactone) scaffolds to drive chondrogenesis
  • Synthetic Matrix Fibers Promote 3D Microvascular Assembly, and Host Integration of Endothelial Monocultures in Absentia of Direct Integrin-Mediated Adhesion
4C
  • Engineering Immunomodulatory Biomaterials for Modulating Macrophage-Mediated Fibrosis in Fracture Nonunion
  • Extracellular matrix damage modulates inflammatory response in fibroblasts through mechanotransductive pathways
  • Mechanical forces at Immune Synapse Regulate Therapeutic Response in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma
  • Piezo1 Mediates Shear-Stress-Induced Signal Two in NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation
  • Sliding hydrogels reveal that modulation of mechanosensing attenuates the inflammatory phenotype of osteoarthritic chondrocytes in 3D
  • Studying and Targeting Macrophage Mechanics on Earth and in Space
Marquette
  • Data-Powered Cardiac Organoid Engineering: from Systems Biology to Artificial Intelligence
  • Engineered curvature directs matrix deposition during jamming and unjamming transitions
  • High-throughput buoyancy-driven microgel production for simple user interfacing
  • Microfluidic Hydrogel Biofabrication of Miniaturized 3D Cellular Architectures for Cancer Modeling
  • Myofibroblast De-differentiation and Fibrotic Tissue Reversion in a Synthetic 3D Interstitial Matrix
Joliet
  • 2D Nanosilicates Loaded with Protein Antigens Enhance Immune Responses
  • Engineered immunomodulatory nanocarriers for localized tolerance induction in allogeneic islet transplantation
  • Lipid nanoparticle-mediated metabolic reprogramming of dendritic cells for mRNA vaccines
  • REGvac 2.0: A Microparticle Strategy for Rheumatoid Arthritis Immunotherapy
  • Systemic Trafficking of mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Vaccine Following Intramuscular Injection Leads to Generation of Tissue-specific T Cell Responses
  • Tissue-, cell-, and organelle-specific drug delivery by poly-glucose nanoparticles for cancer immunotherapy
4D
  • Anti-fouling and Antibacterial Hydrogels for Stimulating Orbital Tissue Expansion in Microphthalmia Patients
  • FRESH 3D Bioprinting of Aligned Human Corneal Stromal Tissue Constructs
  • In Vivo Assessment of an Antioxidant Hydrogel Vitreous Substitute
  • Killing Two Birds with One Stone: A Dual-Functional Nanoparticle Formulation for Glaucoma Therapy
  • Multi-functional Ionic Liquid: A Novel Approach to Glaucoma Therapy
  • Surface Functionalized Electrospun Synthetic Scaffold as Carrier for Limbal Stem Cells Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Ocular Surface Regeneration

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Normandie Lounge

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4D
  • Antigen-Conjugated Scaffolds for Enrichment of Disease-Specific T-cells
  • Injectable hydrogels for localized induction of regulatory T cells
  • Iron-Dexamethasone Nanoparticles Prevent Neutrophil Activation in Acute Lung Injury
  • Localized versus Systemically Delivered Immunomodulation for Treatment of Psoriasis
  • Macroporous Gelatin Scaffolds Enable Lymph Node Stromal Cell Delivery for T-cell Immunomodulation and Recirculation in Type 1 Diabetes Mouse Models
  • Microneedle Targeting of the Immunological Niche in Skin to Induce Antigen-Specific Immune Tolerance and Counter Autoimmunity
BLVD A
  • Hydrogel-Mediated Ablation to Improve Safety and Efficacy of Arrhythmia Treatment
  • Impact of Elemental Compositions of Magnesium Alloys on Ex Vivo and In Vitro Thrombosis
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Microtissues Modulate Inflammation to Improve Cardiomyocyte Engraftment and Cardiac Function in a Rat Myocardial Infarction Model
  • Microfabricated Anisotropic Cardiac Microbundles for the Modular Assembly of Cardiac Tissue Grafts
  • Short and long term of hiPSC-CM culture on cardiac ECM microspheres
  • The influence of hyperlipidemia on magnesium biocorrosion in vitro and in vivo
BLVD C
  • Characterization of 3D Printed Titanium Alloy with Channels (Ti-6Al-4V) for Craniofacial Applications
  • Cyclic Loading of Biomaterials Enhances Virulence of Oral Pathogens
  • Designing Antibacterial and Antifungal Dental Resins for 3D-Printed Dentures Using Imidazolium-based Ionic Liquids
  • Evaluation of porcine derived collagen membranes for soft tissue augmentation in the oral cavity: An in vivo study
  • Formulation screening of optimized photoinitiator systems for photopolymerized dental resins
  • Resveratrol modulates Hedgehog signaling pathway and increases the osteogenic commitment of periodontal ligament mesenchymal cells.
BLVD B
  • Development of an engineered heart tissue platform to study the progressive tissue stiffness change in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Epithelial Cell-Specific Nascent Matrix Deposition Directs Cell Differentiation within the Lung
  • Heightened matrix fiber density drives aberrant angiogenesis to propagate fibrotic signaling
  • High Throughput Fabrication of Human Engineered Heart Tissues for Modeling of Pathological Cardiac Hypertrophy
  • Modeling Cardiomyocyte-fibroblast Crosstalk in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Pathogenesis using iPSC-derived Micro Heart Tissue
  • Multilayered Cardiac Microtissues for Dissecting Homeostatic vs. Fibrotic Intercellular Communication
Joliet
  • Bioprinted Porous Collagen I Scaffold to Enhance Proximal Tubule Maturation Under Physiologic Shear
  • Design and Fabrication of Channelized Nerve Guidance Conduits for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
  • High-Throughput In Vivo Screening of Biomaterials
  • Porous Semisynthetic Hyaluronic Acid Cryogel Scaffolds Promote Muscle Regeneration
Marquette
  • Immunomodulatory cytokine factories prevent foreign body response against encapsulated islets and delay the onset of diabetes.
  • Implantable biomaterial microporous scaffolds predict food allergy severity as a surrogate of immune dynamics in the gastrointestinal tract
  • Localized Delivery of Indoleamine-2,3-Dioxygenase (IDO) - Galectin 3 Fused Enzyme Using Decellularized Sciatic Nerve for Injured Spinal Cord Immune Modulation and Regeneration
  • Nanoimmunomaterials from the Johns Hopkins Translational ImmunoEngineering Center Enable Immune Cell Specific Targeting
  • Placental Mimicry Cell Therapy Delays Bystander Cell Rejection in Xenotransplant Model
  • Targetless Immunotherapy Rescues Mice From LPS-Induced Septic Shock

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Grand Ballroom
  • Repurposing the Blueprint of Life through Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs): Opening the Field of Structural Nanomedicine

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

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Normandie Lounge

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4D
  • An Embedded Bioprinting Approach for Engineering Biochemical Heterogeneity in 3D Scaffolds: Toward Complex Tissue Interfaces
  • Development of a Novel Hybprinter-SAM for Functionally Graded Tissue Engineering Constructs with Patterned and Localized Biochemical Signals
  • Digital Light Processing 3D Printing of Microgel-Reinforced Hydrogels
  • High Throughput Screening of Patient-Derived Breast Cancer with Improved Physiological Relevance by Basement Membrane Matrix for Clinical Application
  • IN4MER Bioink: A Single-Modality Biosensing Bio-ink for Multianalytes and Temperature Monitoring Applications
  • Light-Pipe FRESH 3D Bioprinting for Advanced Engineering of Tissue Scaffolds with Spatial Heterogeneity
  • Ultrafast Nanofiber 3D Printing of Polycaprolactone Scaffolds
BLVD C
  • Antibiofilm Properties of Polyurethane Biomaterials Tethered with Small Molecules via Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)
  • Antimicrobial Metallopolymer to Resensitize Antibiotics Against Gram-negative Superbugs
  • Augmenting Ischemic Wound Healing Through Peroxide Decomposition
  • Coacervate Dense Phase Displaces Surface-Established Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms
  • Covalent conjugation of Tanfloc on Titania Nanotube surface Enhancing Antibacterial Properties
  • Enhancing infected wound regeneration using self-locomotive, antimicrobial micro-bubblers
  • Eradication of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm on Polyethylene when Paired with a Mixed Metal Electrode Using Cathodic Voltage-Controlled Electrical Stimulation and Subsequent Alkaline Incubation
  • Wound Healing Promoted by Broad-Spectrum, Phage Structure Mimicking, Synthetic Antibacterial Nanoparticles , which Cleared MDR ESKAPE Pathogens Induced Infections in Wound Models
BLVD B
  • Glycan Functionalized Biomaterials for Modulating Neuroinflammation and Tissue Repair Post Ischemic Stroke
  • Guiding oligodendrocyte progenitor cell maturation using electrospun fiber cues in a 3D amorphous hydrogel
  • Injectable Bioactive Polypeptide Scaffold Enhances Angiogenesis for Peripheral Nerve Repair
  • Studying Tenascin-C Effects on Enhancing Neuronal Axonal Alignment in 3D-Printed Hydrogel Scaffolds
  • Studying astrocyte borders using injectable biomaterials
  • Temporospatial Sensitive Nanoprobe for Traumatic Brain Injury
BLVD A
  • A Novel Peptide Hemostat for Enhanced Platelet Adhesion Leading to Improved Hemostasis
  • A Rotational Shear-Based Device for Fabricating Uniform Hydrogel Microspheres for Prostate Cancer Treatment Using Embolization
  • Advanced Biomaterial Scaffolds for Rapid Pathogen Identification: Enabling Ultra-Sensitive Blood Drying
  • Multifunctional hydrogels as wound dressing materials: In vitro and in vivo evaluations
  • Sea Squirt-inspired Bio-derived Tissue Sealants
  • Topical Exosome-Loaded Gel for the Antibiotic Treatment of Wound Infections
  • Tunable Phosphorescent Hydrogels for Cherenkov-Excited Luminescence Imaging (CELI) of Oxygen
  • Wound Dressings Capable of Delivering OPN and SDF-1α to Enhance Diabetic Wound Healing
Marquette
  • A Regimen Compression Strategy Leveraging the Administration Route of an Injectable Hydrogel Depot Technology for Sustained Vaccine Exposure
  • Aromatic mRNA lipid nanoparticle platform confers vaccine protection with reduced off-target delivery
  • Glucose-Stabilized Peptide Assemblies for Glucagon Delivery
  • Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase Enzyme-Peptide Gel for Local Immune Modulation
  • Lipid nanoparticles targeting smooth muscle cells as a therapeutic platform for ACTA2 genetic vasculopathy of infancy
  • Microgel-mediated delivery of decorin prevents pediatric vocal fold scarring
  • Poly(beta-amino ester)/poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) blends for co-delivery of small molecules and proteins to enable locoregional combination therapy of primary liver tumor
  • Vaccine Delivery from a TLR7 Agonist-Functionalized Peptide Hydrogel Promotes Robust Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses
4C
  • A Dendrimer-Based Ultrasound-Responsive Gene Delivery System for Precision Cancer Therapy
  • A Green Chemistry Approach to the Synthesis of Ionizable Lipids for Lipid Nanoparticle-Based mRNA Vaccines and Therapeutic Development
  • Engineering controlled release from biodegradable drug delivery devices 3D printed with vat polymerization
  • Extracellular Vesicles Facilitate Motor-like Neuron Reprogramming to Support Temporary Muscle Reinnervation After Peripheral Nerve Injury
  • Multifunctional Nanoscale Delivery System for Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
  • Rapid, plate robot-integrated microfluidic generation and validation of large, precisely defined lipid nanoparticle libraries for screening
Joliet
  • Aqueous synthesis of poly(ethylene glycol)-norbornene-carboxylate for dynamic hydrogel crosslinking
  • Extracellular matrix stress relaxation regulates spatiotemporal mammary branching morphogenesis
  • IGF-1 mimetic peptide conjugated alginate hydrogels enhance survival and blunt inflammation in Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
  • In Vitro Bioengineered Immune-Competent Colons as a Platform to Study Enteric Neuroinflammation and Neuroimmune Crosstalk
  • Mathematical Modeling of Ligand Interconnectivity Using One-dimensional Magnetic Nanomaterials for Reversible Stem Cell Regulation
  • Patterned siRNA Hydrogels for Spatially Regulating Cell Gene Expression and Driving hMSC Osteogenesis
  • Photonic manipulation of ligand spacing in supramolecular self-assembly for stem cell regulation
  • Sacrificial Endothelialized Microfibers for Engineering Aligned Capillary Beds

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BLVD C
  • Antimicrobial Hemostatic Shape Memory Polymer Foams for Infection Prevention in Traumatic Wounds
  • Development of a Nitric Oxide-Releasing Cephalexin-based Hybrid Compound for Enhanced Antimicrobial Efficacy and Biofilm Disruption
  • Development of an Antimicrobial Bacteriocin-Based Hydrogel for Treating Second-Degree Burns Wounds
  • Dual-Action Prevention of Adherent and Non-Adherent Biofouling via Slippery, Nitric Oxide-Releasing Nanoemulsion-Infused Porous Surfaces
  • Harnessing nature’s blueprints to design antifouling antimicrobial interactive biointerfaces and synthetic cells
  • Interrogating Temperature-Modulated Internal Cavitation Effect on Biofilm Removal Using Self-Propelling Antimicrobial Microbubblers
  • Metal-Siloxanes Derived Bio-inspired Superhydrophobicity and Nitric Oxide Generation for Antibiofouling Clinical Applications
  • Nanostructured materials as a tool in the fight against hospital-acquired infections
BLVD A
  • Deoxycholate-based Composite Microparticles for Effective and Safe Adipocytolysis
  • Emerging Forms of Electrospun Nanofiber Materials for Biomedical Applications
  • Fibrin Nanoparticle-Driven Gel Formation on Structural Scaffolds for Enhanced Diabetic Wound Healing
  • Hybrid-nested microneedle arrays integrated with cryogels for effective management of biofilm-infected diabetic wounds
  • Immunoregulatory matrix-bound nanovesicles improve mesh-aided abdominal hernia repair
  • Injectable and biodegradable piezoelectric hydrogel for osteoarthritis treatment
  • Minimally–Invasive Implants to Predict Immunotherapy Sensitivity and Map Organ Allograft Tolerance Trajectories
  • Novel silicone-based sponge for hemostatic treatment: Spatiotemporal studies using a noninvasive model
Marquette
  • A Scalable, Translatable Hydrogel Platform for Improving Subunit Vaccines
  • Controlled drug delivery with peptide hydrogel enabled with boronic acid dynamic covalent chemistry
  • Engineering CSF pH and tonicity for improved CNS nanoparticle and drug delivery
  • Enhancing Cell Transfection Efficiency via Modulation of Extracellular Fluid Viscosity
  • Epigenetic-targeting nanotherapeutics for genetic kidney disease
  • Microneedle Patches for Minimally-Invasive Transdermal Nanoparticle Delivery
  • Targeted Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery for Dual RNA-Mediated Treatment of Obesity
  • Urease-Powered Nanomotor Containing STING Agonist for Bladder Cancer Immunotherapy
4D
  • Bioresorbable Magnesium-Doped Glass-Ceramic Nanoparticle for Osteoimmunomodulation
  • Directing the Matrix-Producing Phenotypic Range of Meniscal Fibrochondrocytes with Biomaterial Composition
  • Faster Bone Replacement Achieved by Carbonate Apatite Cement and Granules
  • In Situ Printing-Enabled Fixation for Personalized Bone Defect Treatment
  • In vivo wear of highly crosslinked polyethylene in total hip replacements from two manufacturers
  • Osteoinductive Chitosan Hydrogel for Vertebral Compression Fracture Repair Using an Osteoporotic Rabbit Model
  • Photocurrent-Directed Immunoregulation Accelerates Osseointegration through Activating Calcium Influx in Macrophages
  • Self-Polymerizing, Radio-opaque Resin for Vertebral Augmentation
BLVD B
  • Citrate-based micropillar scaffolds promoted bone regeneration via regulation of cell secretome
  • Magnesium ions-incorporating bioactive hydrogels for in situ tissue regeneration
  • Millimeter-scale Dual-Opposing RNAi Gradient Hydrogel for Interfacial Gene Silencing
  • Regenerative features in chronic paralyzed rats implanted with 3D reduced graphene oxide foams
  • Reprogrammable 4D Tissue Engineering Scaffold via Reversible Ion-Transfer Printing
  • Sustained RNAi Molecule Presentation in Hydrogels Destabilizes Local Actin Polymerization of Encapsulated Cells to Induce Spatiotemporal Shape Transformations
Joliet
  • Amphiregulin releasing alginate hydrogels for treating ischemic muscle injuries
  • Decellularized Lucky Bamboo Scaffolds as Platforms for Bone Tissue Engineering
  • Hydrogel-Delivery of hiPSC-Cortical Neurons Improves Local and Distal Anatomical and Functional Outcomes Following Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
  • Magneto-Responsive Iron-Chelated Silk Microfibers as an In-Situ Aligning Architecture for Injectable Biomaterials
  • Rapid Fabrication of Polyvinyl Alcohol Hydrogel Foams with Encapsulated Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Chronic Wound Treatment
  • Self-organized insulin-producing β-cells differentiated from human omentum-derived stem cells and their in vivo therapeutic potential
  • Use of an Injectable Recombinant Polypeptide Scaffold for Peripheral Nerve Repair
  • WNT7A mRNA-LNPs Reduce Skeletal Muscle Fibro-adipogenic Progenitor Adipogenesis

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Grand Ballroom
  • Biomaterials Development has Enhanced the Success of Cardiac Valve Replacement: What are the Key Ongoing Challenges and Opportunities?
  • Development and Translation of Injectable Therapeutic Biomaterials
  • Harnessing Structural Nanomedicines to Drive Robust and Durable Immunotherapy Responses
  • Stronger Together: Building an Inclusive Biomaterials Community

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Friday, April 11, 2025

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Normandie Lounge

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BLVD B
  • Analysis of osteogenic capacity of an octacalcium phosphate bone substitute used in orthopedic bone defect filling
  • Bioactive Magnesium Nanocomposites for Bone Repair and Regeneration
  • Corrosion Characteristics of Electrocautery Damaged (ECD) CoCrMo alloys using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)
  • Decoupling Interdependent Physical Properties in 3D-Printed Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds
  • Effects of Galvanic Corrosion on the Cytotoxicity of 3D Printed Magnesium- and Zinc-Based Implants
  • Electrical Behavior of Segregated Network Nanocomposites for Orthopedic Applications
  • Magnesium-tricalcium phosphate-hydroxyapatite Combination Anodization Coatings on Titanium Solid and 3D-printed implant surfaces
  • Synthesis of CaCO3 Nanoparticles Using Amino Acids
4C
  • Developing Chamber-Forming Human Cardiac Organoids in a Synthetic Hydrogel System
  • Enema Transplantation of Interleukin-10 Colonoids for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Engineering Human iPSC Derived Planar Neural Organoid (PNO) Models to Study Melanoma Brain Metastases
  • FRESH 3D Bioprinting Cell Aggregates with Engineered Architectures
  • Hypoimmunogenic hPSC-derived cardiac organoids evade the host immune response and facilitate cardiac functional recovery
  • Innovating Brain Organoid Technology: Enhancing Lymphatic Vascularization with Synthetic Matrices
  • MAGIC matrices: freeform bioprinting materials to support complex and reproducible organoid morphogenesis
  • Optimizing Synthetic PEG-4MAL Hydrogels for the Culture of Patient-Derived Enteroids
Joliet
  • Anti-TNFα Antisense Oligonucleotide Conjugated PLG Nanoparticles Protect Transplanted Islets
  • Development and encapsulation of programable pro-angiogenic cell factories for long-term support of beta cell transplantation
  • In Vitro Model of the Confined Islet Transplant Site to Evaluate Direct and Indirect T Cell Cytotoxicity and Protective Effects of Islet Biomaterial Encapsulation
  • Interrogating the Impact of Porous Scaffold Geometry on Host Responses and Transplant Outcomes In Vivo
  • Methacrylic acid-based hydrogel and tuned inflammatory response enable subcutaneous allogeneic islet survival
  • Modeling and treating human autoimmune diabetes employing stem cell technology
  • Vasculogenic, Synthetic Hydrogel Enhances a Marginal Corrective Dose of SC-Islets in the Gonadal Fat Pad of Diabetic Immune Deficient Mice
BLVD B
  • 3D Multi-Scale Simulations of Electrospun Mesh Mechanical Responses from nanoCT images
  • 3D pore shape is predictable in randomly packed granular systems
  • Automation and Machine Learning for Antibody Formulation in High Concentration Regimes
  • Building Predictive Models of Stem Cell Fate from Curvature-Induced Cytoskeletal Changes
  • Computational Modeling of the Effects of Implant Metallic Composition on the Electrochemical Changes upon Cathodic Stimulation of Total Knee Replacements
  • Data-driven design of novel polymer excipients for pharmaceutical amorphous solid dispersions
  • Demonstrating the Impact of L- and D-Peptide Isomer Mixtures on Hydrogel Self-Assembly via Molecular Dynamics
  • Machine Learning-Based Morphometric and Biomarker Analysis To Guide Elastic Matrix Regenerative Repair in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
BLVD A
  • Characterization of Sex-Based Differences in Integrin-Mediated Endothelial Cell Adhesion and Phenotype
  • Chemical Characterization of Nanoparticles Shed from Tampons
  • Design of Self-fitting Vaginal Stents to Balance Retention and Ease of Removal
  • Developing a Microporous Annealed Particle Hydrogel to Promote Revascularization of Human Ovarian Tissue
  • Engineering an ECM Sequestering Fibrous Hydrogel to Promote Ovarian Folliculogenesis
  • Placental Delivery of Cytokine Immunotherapy to Attenuate Diet-Induced Inflammation in Obese Pregnancy
  • Probing the Role of Lipid Nanoparticle Elasticity on mRNA Delivery to the Placenta
  • Subcutaneous scaffold implants recapitulate the placental microenvironment for prenatal immunosurveillance
Marquette
  • Dual-targeting of uPAR and Ribonucleotide Reductase R2 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Stromal Cells for Better Tumor Retention and Enhanced Therapeutic Efficacy
  • In vitro and in vivo development of rat macrophage membrane coated nanoparticles for targeted delivery to inflamed peripheral nerves
  • Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for gene editing of the fetal lung
  • Pemetrexed as folate receptor-α (FRα) targeting moiety, active targeting of colorectal cancer using chemotherapy-loaded nanoparticles.
  • Protein Corona Impacts Targeting and Affinity of Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles
  • Targeting nanoparticle delivery to metastatic breast cancer by the intrathecal (cisterna magna) route
BLVD C
  • A New Biocomposite Scaffold for Osteochondral Regeneration Utilizing a Gyroid Sheet-based Geometry
  • Aminated Gel-SH improves gelation kinetics and collagen integration in a tendon-to-bone junction biomaterial
  • Conductive MXene Scaffolds for Composite Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration
  • Modular Shape-Controllable Engineered Tissues for Muscle Tissue Engineering
  • Sirt1 transgene delivery improves diabetes-impaired wound healing
  • Ulcer-Targeting Prodrug Particles to Promote Regenerative Healing in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Grand Ballroom
  • Extracellular Vesicles for Pulmonary Repair and Drug Delivery

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Grand Ballroom

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Joliet
  • Bioinspired Endothelium-Mimicking Slippery Surface: Long-Term In Vivo Infectious Rabbit Model
  • Carboxymethyl kappa-carrageenan: anticoagulant coatings as sustainable alternatives to heparin for blood contacting devices
  • Cytocompatible and Hemocompatible, Slippery Organogel Coatings Integrated with Bioactive Polymers
  • Dual surface functionalization of microfluidic blood oxygenators using antithrombin-heparin (ATH) and tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) for enhanced antithrombotic activity
  • Improving the Thromboresistivity of Devices via Surface-Localized Release of Hydrogen Sulfide
  • In Vitro and In Vivo Assessment of Fluorinated Polyphosphazene Catheter Coatings
  • Liquid-Infused (LI) Nitric Oxide (NO) Releasing Submicron-Textured Surfaces for Biocompatibility in Biomedical Devices
  • New thermoplastic elastomers for safer, greener and customizable blood-contacting medical devices with antithrombotic profile
BLVD B
  • A spatially patterned 3D model for assessing drug efficacy in breast cancer-bone metastasis
  • Biomaterial-based modeling of radiotherapy outcomes impacts tumor-stroma interactions
  • Embedded Bioprinting of Breast Cancer–Adipose Composite Tissue Model for Patient-Specific Paracrine Interaction Analysis
  • Engineering Dormancy: Insights from a 3D Model of Microscopic Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis
  • Extracellular matrix cues combine to generate diverse phenotypes during breast cancer progression
  • Microgel Encapsulation of Glioblastoma for an In Vitro Drug Screening Platform
4D
  • Bioengineering Customized Exosomes as a Cell-free Therapy for Volumetric Muscle Loss Injuries
  • Chiral-Assisted siRNA Loading and pH-Responsive Peptide Functionalization in Small Extracellular Vesicles for Efficient Intracellular Delivery
  • Engineered Biomimetic Materials for Enhancing Therapeutic Small Extracellular Vesicles
  • Engineering Lipid Nanoparticles as a Delivery Vehicle for Novel Extracellular Vesicle-Derived Therapeutics
  • Extracellular Vesicle-incorporated Biostimulatory Matrix Prevents Radiation Dermatitis
  • Piezoelectric nanofibrous scaffold (PES) as a 3D culture platform for enhancing the production of small extracellular vesicles
  • Silicon nanowires augment therapeutic extracellular vesicle production from human cardiac organoids
  • Urinary extracellular vesicles as gene and protein delivery devices
4C
  • Core-shell Polymeric Nanoparticles for the Detection and Treatment of Infected Breast Cancer Cells
  • Discovery of a Nanospiral Morphology in Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogels
  • Ionizable lipids with reduced numbers of tails direct lipid nanoparticle tropism to the spleen
  • Parameters of emulsion polymerization and copolymer composition predict nanoparticle properties and lymphatic uptake
  • Proteins Form Reversible Complexes with Two-Dimensional Nanosilicate Particles
  • Rationally designed self-immolative and self-deliverable trimeric prodrug nanoassemblies for synergistic combination anticancer therapy
  • Ruthenium-complex Nanomicelle Optical Sensors for High-Resolution Mapping of Oxygen Tension in 3D Tissue-Engineered Tumor Microenvironments
  • Using Crystallization To Increase Sustainability In The Synthesis Of Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Nanoparticles
BLVD C
  • Advanced Dry Gel Medical Device for Effective Prehospital Management of Junctional Hemorrhage
  • Development of the Secure Polymeric Tissue Tag (SPOTT) breast biopsy device
  • From Concept to Care: Successfully Designing Durability into Product Commercialization
  • Green Lunar: Turning Waste into Wealth with Dual-Function Halloysite Nanotubes for Lunar Agriculture and Medical Applications
  • Regulatory Validation and Commercialization of a Sprayable Hydrogel for Postoperative Adhesion Prevention
  • Scalability of Electrospun Polycaprolactone for Medical Devices: Overcoming Challenges for Commercialization
BLVD A
  • Boolean Logic-gated Protein Release via Autonomously Compiled Molecular Topology
  • Digital Light Processing of Photo-Responsive and Programmable Hydrogels
  • Dynamic Gelatin Hydrogels Crosslinked by Dithiolane-Norbornene Click Chemistry
  • Engineering Focused Ultrasound-Responsive Granular Hydrogels for Microvasculature
  • Light-responsive Core-Shell Microparticles for Chemo-Photothermal Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Therapy
  • Magnetoactive hydrogels to mimic arterial wall buckling in atherosclerosis
  • Mechanical-Driven Sarcomere Disarray of BAG3-mutated Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes on a Dynamic Topographic Substrate
  • Multi-domain disordered proteins enable highly programmable self-assembly of intracellular biomaterial-condensates

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Adler Planetarium
Saturday, April 12, 2025

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Normandie Lounge

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Grand Ballroom
  • 3D Printing Bioresorbable Scaffolds for Wound Healing via Engineering Stochastic Voronoi Structures
  • Automated Organoid and Cell Spheroid Assembly for Enhanced Disease Modeling
  • Bioengineering 3D printed organs
  • Digital Light Processing 3D Bioprinting of Biomimetic Corneal Stroma Equivalent using Gelatin Methacryloyl and Oxidized Carboxymethylcellulose Interpenetrating Network Hydrogel
  • Magnetic Mixer (MagMix): Advancing Bioink Homogeneity in Extrusion-Based Bioprinting
  • Synergistic Effects of Periostin and Oxygen Generators in Complex Skin Tissue 4D Bioprinting
  • TissueFab® Synthetic DLP bioink for Advanced Tissue and Organ-on-a-Chip Applications
BLVD B
  • Cancer vaccination using cell-mediated delivery of an adjuvant loaded via ionic liquid cocktail
  • Clickable Nanoplex Cluster-Mediated Synergistic Modulation of Dendritic Cells and T Cells Amplifies Tumor-Specific Adaptive Immunity
  • Engineering A Biomaterials-based Lymphoid Niche for mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Cancer Vaccines
  • Inhalable Unnatural Sugar for Tagging and Targeting of Lung Cancer Cells
  • Injectable adhesive hydrogel-based in situ vaccines eliminate established brain tumors by stimulating innate and adaptive immune responses that are enhanced by sustained release kinetics
  • Macroporous Hydrogel-Based mRNA Cancer Vaccine for In Situ Recruitment and Modulation of Dendritic Cells
  • Plasmid DNA Vaccine for Post-Surgical Immunotherapy Against Murine Melanoma
  • Restoration of cGAS in tumor cells promotes antitumor immunity via transfer of tumor-cell generated cGAMP
Joliet
  • Cartilage-Targeting and Drug Depot-Forming Cationic Fusion Protein of Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Analog
  • Characterization of POSH(3.3A)-Tat Peptide Amphiphile Micelles as Novel Therapeutic for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
  • Cryogenically Sintered Extracellular Matrix Particle Scaffolds to Modulate Porosity, Increase Macrophage Infiltration, and Promote Long-Term Remodeling in Volumetric Muscle Loss Injuries
  • Decellularized Lymph Node Biomaterial Platform to Study the Impact of Microenvironment on Fibroblastic Reticular Cell Phenotype
  • Developing and Characterizing an Engineered Collagen-Binding Fusion Protein to Enhance Localized Delivery of Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (BMP-2) for Bone Regeneration
  • Development and In Vitro Evaluation of Biomimetic Injectable Hydrogels from Decellularized Human Nerves for Central Nervous System Regeneration
  • Engineered Decellularized Matrix Hydrogels to Mimic the Crypt-Villus Structures of the Small Intestine
  • HER2-targeting tandem peptide delivery of bioactive siRNAs targeting CD44 for treatment of HER2+ Breast Cancer
BLVD C
  • 3D Mechanical Confinement Directs Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function
  • Characterization of Length-Scale Dependent Rheology using Bi-Disperse Multiple Particle Tracking Microrheology during Cell-Material Interactions
  • Determining the Role of PIEZO1 in Stiffness Sensing and Regulation of Muscle Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors
  • Stimuli-Responsive Polyethylene Glycol Hydrogels with Dynamic Mechanical Properties
  • Tissue-Penetrating Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Provides Multi-Modal Cartilage Microenvironmental Restoration
  • Tunable and modular viscoelastic matrices to study morphogenesis and invasion of mammary epithelium
  • Ultrafast-Relaxing and Photocrosslinkable PEG Hydrogels for Cell and Organoid Culture in 3D-Printable Dynamic Matrices
  • Using a Library Approach to Identify Optimal Peptide Crosslinks for Cell-Responsive Hydrogels
4D
  • Bioprinting and Microvascular Assembly within PEGNB Granular Materials
  • Dynamic granular hydrogels as an in vitro cancer model
  • Enzyme Responsive Granular Hydrogels for Tissue Repair Post-Myocardial Infarction
  • Stress Relaxation Rate of Alginate Microgel Scaffolds Affects Myogenic Differentiation
  • TissueFab® Porous Bioink for the Next Generation of 3D Bioprinting
  • Toward a Multicellular, Gelatin-based Granular Hydrogel Model of the Bone Marrow
  • Tuning Mesenchymal Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicle Content Through Extracellular Cues in Microgel Scaffolds
  • Tuning the Morphological Properties of Granular Hydrogels to Control Lymphatic Capillary Formation
BLVD A
  • Development of Nanomedicines for Targeting and Preventing Pancreatic β-Cell Death
  • Formulation methods for peptide-modified lipid nanoparticles
  • Harnessing Dendrimers for Targeted Drug Delivery to Neurons
  • Optimizing nanoparticle geometry to enhance drug delivery to the brain by the intrathecal route
  • Peptide-Functionalized Lipid Nanoparticles for Targeted Systemic mRNA Delivery to the Brain
  • Platelet-inspired Intravenous Nanomedicine enabling Injury-Targeted Thrombin Delivery for Hemorrhage Control
  • Precision-Targeted Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Nanovesicles for Elastic Matrix Regenerative Repair in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAAs)
  • mRNA-LNP Delivery to the Damaged Spinal Cord
4C
  • Bioinspired and Mechanically Robust Nanostructured Block Copolymer Hydrogels
  • Chemically Modified Rhamnan Sulfate Compounds as Therapeutics for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
  • Liquid-liquid Phase Separating Peptide Condensates for Therapeutic Delivery
  • Making Synthetic Hydrogels Inspired by Spider Silk
  • Regulating Diabetic Fibroblasts Using Bioinspired Hyaluronan Binding Silk Hydrogels
  • Unconventional Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
4A
  • An Engineered Hydroxyapatite-Binding Fusion Protein to Improve Localized Delivery of Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (BMP-2) for Bone Regeneration
  • Application of flow synthesis method for stable synthesis of OCP
  • Biohybrid Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) Scaffolds for Potential Bone Regeneration and Infection Resistance
  • Impact of Process Parameters and Heat Treatment on Pitting Corrosion in Additively Manufactured CoCrMo Implant Alloy
  • Independent Control of Biochemical and Physical Cues in 3D-Printed Scaffolds
  • Potential toxicity from Implant Wear Products – Cobalt, Chromium, and Titanium Ions on Neuroblastoma IMR-32
  • Recombinant Human Platelet Derived Growth Factor-B Chain Homodimer and Collagen-Bioceramic Mixtures for the Treatment of Critically-Sized Non-Union Defects
  • Resurfacing-Regenerative Approach to Repair Osteochondral Defects using a Bioprosthetic Device

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4C
  • Biodegradable Piezoelectric Nanofibers for Medical Applications
  • Development of an Electrogenetic Cell-Based Therapy for On-Demand Cytokine Delivery
  • Electrochemical Sensing of Endogenous Nitric Oxide as a Function of Diabetes
  • Hydrogel Electrodes for Real-Time Tumor Sensing and Extracellular Matrix Response
  • Soft Materials in Wireless, Skin-Integrated Medical Devices
BLVD A
  • Development of a Gelatin-based Hypoxic Perivascular Niche to Model the Bone Marrow
  • Fibronectin Gradient Guides Osteoblast Haptotaxis via Lamellipodia on a Multiplex Chip
  • Hydrogels with both dynamic and static RGD have increased adhesion formation and cell spreading
  • Magnetic control of biomimetic multiscale ligand dynamics for stem cell regulation
  • Modulating 4D Cell Function via Grayscale Spatiotemporal Biomaterial Customization
  • Synthetic Regulation of Cell Signaling within Engineered Microenvironments to Control Vascularization
  • Tri-Directional Interactions between Cells, Hydrogels, and Nascent ECM Govern Cell Fate
  • Tuning hydrogel cell scaffolds by varying secondary structure of peptoid crosslinkers
4D
  • A Novel PEG-Based Injectable Macroporous Hydrogel Scaffold
  • Alginate granular scaffolds support formation of hypertrophic and chondrogenic constructs made from ECM-loaded MSC spheroids
  • Development of Avidity-Controlled Biotherapeutic Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury
  • Granular Hydrogel Composites for Microvascularized Engineered Tissue Grafts
  • Investigating the Impact of Biomaterial Chirality on Host-material Interaction Using a Limited Lymphocyte Egress Model
  • MAP scaffolds modulate collagen fibril formation and fibroblast phenotype
  • Multicellular Granular Hydrogels of the Perivascular Niche to Study Glioblastoma Progression
  • Programmed Shape Transformations in Cell-laden Granular Hydrogel Composites
Joliet
  • Anatomical location and alloy/surface treatment composition-specific immune responses to metallic implants
  • Comparative Analysis of Tonsil Versus PBMC-derived Human Immune Organoids in Long-term Immune Response to Vaccines and Adjuvants
  • Glycation of collagen affects osteogenic differentiation of hMSCs and intrafibrillar mineralization
  • Immune Organ-on-Chip Reveal Dysregulated Zonal Compartmentalization in Cancer Patients
  • Localized Delivery of Encapsulated Cell Therapy for Targeted Modulation in Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Matrix Mechanics Influences Microvascular Senescence and Pro-inflammation
  • Synergistic generation of cardiac resident-like macrophages and cardiomyocyte maturation in tissue engineered platforms
  • The aged bone marrow and the onset of hematopoietic stem cell aging in a polyisocyanopeptide hydrogel
BLVD B
  • Biodegradable Polyurethane Foams with Enhanced Bioactivity to Improve Traumatic Wound Healing
  • Engineering Dynamic Topographies to Modulate Biological Interactions
  • Hydrogel Viscoelasticity Regulates Cellular Adhesion to Nascent Matrix
  • Vocal Fold Functional Recovery after Intubation Trauma Treated with Composite-Coated Endotracheal Tubes
4A
  • 3D-Printed Bioactive Ceramic Scaffolds to Treat Compromised and Critically-Sized Mandibular Defects
  • 3D-Printed Poly (Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid) Binder-Based Self-Hardening Calcium Phosphate Bone Scaffolds: An In Vivo Study in Sheep
  • A Viscoelastic Tissue-Mimetic Hydrogel for Modelling Chondrogenesis
  • Covalent Tethering of Immunomodulatory Cytokines into Poly(ethylene glycol) thiol-norbornene Hydrogels
  • Determining Matrix Contributions Leading to Dysfunction in Adipocytes
  • Microparticles with Tunable Aspect Ratios Using Photolithography for Injectable Granular Hydrogel Formation and Cell Delivery
  • Patterning fiber types in engineered muscle tissues with optogenetics
  • Stronger by Nature: Advancing Biomaterials with Functional Nanoparticle-Enhanced Silk Hydrogels