Agenda

Tuesday
June 17, 2025

8:00 AM
Arrival, Check-in, American Breakfast

8:30 AM
Welcome and Day 1 Opening Remarks
Michelle Digman – UC Irvine William J Link Chair & Professor
Magnus Egerstedt – UC Irvine Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering

8:40 AM
Session 1: Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials (Session Chair: Prof. Marley Dewey, UC Santa Barbara)
Invited Speaker: Jin Nam – UC Riverside
Selected Speaker: Adam Farsheed, Salk Institute
Selected Speaker: Lily Shang, UC Los Angeles

9:40 AM
Morning Coffee Break

10:00 AM
Session 2: Biomolecular Engineering (Session Chair: Carrie Mills, UC Santa Barbara)
Invited Speaker: Jaimie Stewart – UC Los Angeles
Selected Speaker: Gurneet Sangha, UC Irvine
Selected Speaker: So Youn Lee, UC Davis

11:00 AM
Session 3: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (Session Chair: Prof. Chung-Hao Lee, UC Riverside)
Invited Speaker: Beth Pruitt – UC Santa Barbara
Selected Speaker: Marissa Gionet-Gonzalez, UC Santa Barbara
Selected Speaker: Elliot Botvinick, UC Irvine

12:00 PM
Lunch (Select Hosted Tables With Industry)
BIC Steering Committee Meeting @Green Room (BIC Committee Only)

1:00 PM
Session 4: Neuro, Cardiovascular, and Organ System Engineering (Session Chair: Prof. Victor Rodgers, UC Riverside)
Invited Speaker: Anya Grosberg – UC Irvine
Selected Speaker: Sara Marmarchinia, UC Irvine
Selected Speaker: Peixiang He, UC San Diego

2:00 PM
Shu Chien Speakers
Fangyuan Ding – UC Irvine
Jennifer Wilson – UC Los Angeles
Juhong Chen – UC Riverside
Ryan Stowers – UC Santa Barbara

3:00 PM
Afternoon Coffee Break

3:15 PM
Diversifying Funding Portfolio: Featuring Philanthropic Organizations, Industries, and Other Stakeholders
Sue Merrilees , Senior Director, Philanthropic Advisor, Science Philanthropy Alliance (Moderator)
Panelists:
Anne Hultgren, Executive Director and CEO, Beckman Foundation
Roxanne Ford, Executive Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations, UC Irvine 
Eileen Spain, Program Director, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Scott Fox, CEO, The Startup Council

4:15 PM
Day 1 Closing Remarks

4:30 PM
Poster Session 1

6:15 PM
Gala Dinner at University Club

Wednesday
June 18, 2025

8:00 AM
Arrival, American Breakfast

9:10 AM
BIC Announcements

9:15 AM
Session 5: Imaging and Diagnostics (Session Chair: Prof. Fanny Chapelin, UC San Diego)
Invited Speaker: Joel Spencer – UC Merced
Selected Speaker: Gyeo-Re Han, UC Los Angeles
Selected Speaker: Kofi Agyeman, University of Southern California

10:15 AM
Morning Coffee Break

10:30 AM
Keynote Speaker Introduction

10:45 AM
Keynote Speaker (Eric Betzig – UC Berkeley)

11:45 AM
Lunch (Select Hosted Tables With Industry)
Poster Session II
BIC Steering Committee Meeting @Green Room (BIC Committee Only)

1:15 PM
Shu Chien Speakers
Yi Xue – UC Davis
Catera Wilder – UC San Francisco
Mireille Kamariza – UC Los Angeles
Fanny Chapelin – UC San Diego

2:15 PM
J&J Spotlight Presentation: Dr. Homa Akbarian, Vice President, Global Technical Operations

2:30 PM
Industry Panel Discussion
Sandra Miller, Executive Director of University Lab Partners (Moderator)
Panelists:
Shubhayu Basu, VP of Research & Development, Johnson & Johnson Medtech
Arthur Hewig, VP Pivotal & Commercial Biologics Technical Development, Gilead
Michelle Khine, UCI Professor in Biomedical Engineering and serial entrepreneur
Josh Kim, CTO and Co-Founder, Vena Vitals

3:15 PM
Afternoon Coffee Break

3:30 PM
Session 6: Synthetic, Systems, and Computational Biology (Session Chair: Prof. Mohamad Abedi, UC Los Angeles)
Invited Speaker: Prashant Mali – UC San Diego
Selected Speaker: Cayden Williamson, UC Los Angeles
Selected Speaker: Ofelya Baghdasaryan, UC Davis

4:30 PM
Day 2 Closing Remarks/Award Ceremony

5:00 PM
Adjourn