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At 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, the Department of Biomedical Engineering is honored to host a seminar by Dr. Jessica Aldrich, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. The seminar will be in 226 Woolsey Hall, Commerce Bank and William T. Kemper Foundation Room. Dr. Aldrich will present on “Moving The Needle on The Health Span: Using Biomedical Engineering as a Multipronged Approach to Understand the Musculoskeletal System.”

Seminar description:

“Orthopedic injuries and disease are the leading cause of disability worldwide. Athletes, military veterans and aging adults are some of the critical populations impacted by orthopedic injuries. Each of these populations experiences orthopedic injury differently and has different needs related to treatment and healing outcomes. For example, after traumatic joint injuries, such as ACL tears, athletes may benefit from biomaterial therapies designed to rebalance the joint to homeostatic conditions following surgical repair. Military veterans, or individuals in traumatic accidents, who suffer a major loss of bone may benefit from a tissue engineered solution to replace lost bone material. Predictive tools and organoid systems may better inform our understanding of who is susceptible to chronic injuries, like stress fractures, or disorders, like osteoporosis. Biomaterials and tissue engineering applications are at the leading edge of treating orthopedic injuries and disorders. The objective of this seminar is to explore applications of biomedical engineering in the treatment and understanding of orthopedic injury.”

The Department of Biomedical Engineering is honored to host a seminar with Dr. Neil Lin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at UCLA. Lin will deliver the talk “Building an AI-Guided Combination Therapy Platform for Polycystic Kidney Disease: Lessons from Prostate Cancer” at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25 in 226 Woolsey Hall, Commerce Bank and William T. Kemper Foundation Room.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering is honored to host a seminar with Dr. Jordan Borrell, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy Education at the University of Kansas Medical Center, at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11 virtually via Zoom.

His work focuses on helping people recover after injuries to the brain, spinal cord or nerves, as well as helping people adjust and heal after losing a limb. He studies how the brain can change, heal and reorganize itself after an injury. He is also interested in understanding how the brain processes pain, with the goal of improving rehabilitation treatments and reducing long-term pain for people living with injuries and disabilities.

• Zoom meeting ID: 969 4768 4162
• Password: 259615

The Department of Biomedical Engineering is honored to host a seminar with Dr. Chris Proppe, assistant professor of exercise science in the College of Health Professions, who will deliver a talk titled “Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia: Using Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Exercise Responses to Manage Pain.”

The seminar will take place at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4 in 226 Woolsey Hall, Commerce Bank and William T. Kemper Foundation Room.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering fall seminar series begins from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28 via Zoom with Dr. Erika Moore, University of Maryland.

Moore will give a seminar on “Engineering Biomimetic Platforms to Investigate Biological Variation in Immune–Stromal Interactions.” Zoom meeting ID: 925 4524 8595. Password: 980499.

Join the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering for a seminar by Larry Kiliszewski, owner of Zewski Corporation, at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 in 110B Woolsey Hall, Frank A. Boettger Auditorium on “Economics of Scale for Manufacturing Medical Devices.”

Kiliszewski is owner of Zewski Corporation, a boutique design firm that translates medical device concepts into manufacturable, regulated products. Kiliszewski’s work supports teams ranging from startups to larger organizations, including Rice360 Global Health, Baylor College of Medicine and Medtronic Diabetes, among others. Over a 30-year career in product development, Kiliszewski has personally managed more than 100,000 hours of medical device design programs. His approach — blending program leadership with hands-on engineering — helps teams move faster while staying aligned on design controls, risk management, supplier execution and realistic development budgets and timelines.

In addition to client work, Kiliszewski publishes “The Zewski Report,” sharing practical guidance on planning, costs, risks and execution. He serves as an adjunct professor of practice in biomedical engineering at Rice University and holds 20+ medical device patents.