Dr. Mauro Ferrari Keynote Speaker Special Expert in Nanotechnology at the National Cancer Institute and Eminent Scholar

Edgar Hendrickson Professor of Biomedical Engineering — The Ohio State University Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology Professor of Mechanical Engineering Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Associate Vice President, Health Sciences Technology and Commercialization Associate Director, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute Research Interests: Nanotechnology and Microtechnology for biomedical applications such as drug delivery, cell transplantation, tissue engineering, and biomolecular separation. Biomechanics and biophysics.

Additional Outstanding Invited Speakers and Talks Include:

Maysam Ghovanloo North Carolina State University How to Energize and Communicate with the Micro/Nano Mechanical Systems in Medicine and Biology Michel Maharbiz University of Michigan Microsystems for Controlling the Oxidative Microenvironment/In Vitro Jason Zara The George Washington University Polyimide MEMS Scanners for Optical Coherence Tomography Harold Craighead Cornell University Nano-Devices for Biomolecular Analysis Thomas George Vialogy Corporation Quantum Resonance Interferometry: A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Extracting Weak Signals from Noisy Backgrounds Gary Rubloff University of Maryland BioMicroSystems: Labs and Fabs for Nanotechnology and Manufacturing Jamille Hetke University of Michigan and NeuroNexus Technologies Silicon Based Neural Probes Javier Atencia NIST Engineered Microcirculatory Systems