DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING B M E Presented Date From S e m i n a r S e r i e s P r e s e n t s SPRING 2015 Speaker Xiaogang Hu, Ph.D. , Research Assistant Professor Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Research Scientist, Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago UNC January 9 UNC January 16 Jason Franz, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison NCSU January 23 Mohammad Reza Abidian, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering & Chemical Engineering, Penn State University NCSU January 30 Liangfang Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Nanoengineering, Moores Cancer Center Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California - San Diego NCSU February 6 Abhinav Bhushan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Engineering in Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School NCSU February 13 Ashley Carson Brown, Ph.D., Research Scientist II, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology NCSU February 20 Danny Freytes, Ph.D., Lead PI, Cardiac Tissue Engineering Group The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) NCSU February 27 Albert Keung, Ph.D., NIH‐NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Department, Boston University/HHMI UNC March 6 Morgan V. Fedorchak, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering - Ophthalmology, Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh (March 9 - March 13th, Spring Break at UNC & NC State) NCSU March 20 Alex Osadzinski, Investor, Advisor, Board member, Founder, Raleigh Triangle Startups NCSU March 27 Michael Goldfarb, Ph.D., Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science & Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Vanderbilt School of Engineering (April 2nd- 3rd, Spring Holiday at UNC & NC State) NCSU April 10 Kevin B. Johnson, Regenerative Medicine Regulatory and Clinical Consulting PharmaKnowledge JAPAN April 17 Yoshinobu Baba, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering Director of FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University NCSU Cynthia J. Sollod, Ph.D., Senior Director, Science and Technology Development North Carolina Biotechnology Center April 24 Fridays from Noon to 1PM Beginning January 9 321 MacNider (UNC) 4142 Engineering Building III (NC State) Teleconferenced to ECU