Scientific Programme
Download Programme BookDay 1: Monday 3 November
08:30
Registration and coffee
09:00-09:15
Opening Ceremony
Professor Jay Siegel
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong
Professor CS Lau
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Health) (Interim), Dean of Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Opening remarks
09:15-10:00
Professor Evelyn Yim
University of Waterloo
Topographical modification of biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
10:00-10:45
Professor Song Li
University of California Los Angeles
Mechano-Immunoengineering for Cancer Therapy
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-12:00
Professor Peter Wang
University of Southern California
Ultrasound Control of Genetics/Epigenetics and Cellular Functions for Cancer Immunotherapy
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
12:00-13:00
Lunch
Onsite catering will be provided
13:00-13:45
Professor Paolo Bonato
Harvard Medical School
Technology Innovation for Precision Rehabilitation Interventions
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
13:45-14:30
Professor Patrick Kanold
Johns Hopkins University
Illuminating how we hear and learn to hear
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-15:45
Professor Chris de Zeeuw
Erasmus University Medical Center
In the Blink of an Eye: from Pavlovian Conditioning to Biomedical Engineering
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
15:45-16:30
Professor Shankar Subramaniam
University of California San Diego
Neuronal Reprogramming Pathways in Alzheimer's Disease
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
16:30-17:15
Professor Michael Häusser
Interim Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Future perspectives on interfacing with the brain
Day 2: Tuesday 4 November
09:15-10:00
Professor Anqi Qiu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Towards Precision Mental Health in Early Life
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
10:00-10:45
Professor Michael Miller
Johns Hopkins University
On the Data Science of Petascale Models for Neuroimaging: From Tissue to Tangles to Transcripts
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-12:00
Professor Cheng Chen
The University of Hong Kong
Medical Imaging AI: from Specialist to Multimodal and Generalist Medical Intelligence
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
12:00-13:00
Lunch
Onsite catering will be arranged
13:00-13:45
Professor Denis Wirtz
Johns Hopkins University
3D Cellular Mapping of Solid Tumors and New CAR T Therapies to Resolve Them
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
13:45-14:30
Professor Jia Liu
Harvard University
Soft and Flexible Brain-Computer Interfaces and NeuroAI
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-15:45
Professor Samuel Stupp
Northwestern University
Supramolecular Therapeutics for Regenerative Medicine
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
15:45-16:30
Professor Shiming Zhang
The University of Hong Kong
Wearable Bioelectronics: Materials, Devices, and AI-Embedded Hardware-Software Co-Design
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
16:30-17:15
Professor Tian Xu
School of Life Sciences, Westlake University
From AI for Medicine to Science for AI: Deep Nature and Quantification Biology
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
Day 3: Wednesday 5 November
09:15-10:00
Professor Eric Honoré
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire
Molecular and Integrative Mechanobiology: Force-gated Ion Channels
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
10:00-10:45
Professor Hala Zreiqat
The University of Sydney
Bioactive Ceramics and Architected BRedefining musculoskeletal regeneration: Innovations and vision for the future of biomedical engineering
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-12:00
Professor Kevin Tsia
The University of Hong Kong
Decoding cell with microscopy - from petabyte-scale data generation to intelligent morphological profiling
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
12:00-12:45
Professor Patrick Cai
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, UK
Engineering Synthetic Genomes
(40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
12:45-13:00
Closing Remarks