Join us for the Law, Policy, & Engineering Biotechnology Symposium on April 11, 2019! Featuring keynote speakers Greg Lucier, the chairman of the board of NuVasive, and Daniel O'Connor, the president, director, and CEO of OncoSec Medical, Inc., the symposium's theme is, "Next Generation Devices for Biotechnology & Biomedicine." Researchers, policymakers, and industry partners will converge to look toward the next generation devices for biotechnology and biomedicine.
Event details:
Thursday, April 11, 2019
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Auditorium
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building (CBEB)
Penn State University Park
Event agenda:
Chair: Andrew Zydney, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
8:30 a.m.: Check-in
9 a.m.: Welcome Address
Video: Hari Osofsky, Dean, Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs; Live: Eric Barron, President, Penn State; Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean, College of Engineering
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Morning Keynote
Greg Lucier, CEO, Corza Health
10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.: Break
10:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: Panel: Facilitating the Development of Next Generation Devices for Biotechnology and Biomedicine
Panelists: Jonathan Spadt, CEO & President, RatnerPrestia; Subha Maruvada, Ultrasound Engineer, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA; Steve Carpenter, SVP, Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central PA
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Networking/poster session
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Brainstorming Session: Proposed Penn State Center for In-Vivo Biodevices
Moderators: Video: Mary Frecker, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering; Live: David Han, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Surgery, Penn State Heart and Vascular Institute, Penn State College of Medicine
2:30 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.: Break
2:40 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Afternoon Keynote
Dan O’ Connor, President, Director, CEO, OncoSec Medical, Inc.
If you have questions about the symposium, please contact Priya Baboo at
pzb104@psu.edu.
