Location:
Temple University
Philadelphia PA, 19122
Date:
April 16-17, 2026
Submission deadline Feb 20th!
Highlights
- Networking Events
- Awards
- Career Fair
- Scientific Sessions
- Senior Design Poster Competition
- High School Poster
Organizing Committees
Technical Committee
Anita Singh
Bojana Gligorijevic
Peter Lelkes
Andrew Spence
Ruth Ochia
Evangelia Bellas
Erkan Tuzel
Yah-el Har-el
Iyad Obeid
Organizing Committee
Anita Singh
Jonathan Gerstenhaber
Yah-el Har-el
James Furmato
Ruth Ochia
Helen Freitas
Scientific Sessions
Cancer Engineering
- Cancer cell adhesion, migration and invasion
- Cancer-host cell interactions
- Mechanobiology and cancer-ECM interactions
- Translational engineering: patient-derived organoids, iPSCs
- Cancer on a chip
- New biomaterials for studying cancer
- 3D cultures mimicking cancer
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
- Biomaterials
- Tissue Engineering
- In Vitro Disease Models
- Microphysiological Systems (MPS), Tissue/Organ on a chip, Functional Organoids (non-cancer models)
- Drug Delivery
- Endocrine Tissue Engineering
- Cell & tissue mechanics/mechanobiology (non-cancer)
- Engineering biomaterials and tissues for space biology
Imaging Across Scales
- Single molecule microscopies
- Super-resolution microscopy
- Novel tools for molecule and cellular imaging (DNA origami, new probes etc)
- Tissue and whole animal imaging
- Multimodal imaging
- Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
Biomechanics & Physiological Systems
- Biomechanics
- Kinematics and Kinetics of Human Motion
- Musculoskeletal Modeling and Simulation
- Injury Biomechanics and Prevention
- Rehabilitation and Assistive Device Design
- Tissue and Joint Mechanics
- Cardiovascular Engineering
- Hemodynamics and Blood Flow Modeling
- Cardiovascular Devices (stents, valves, grafts)
- Vascular Biology and Mechanics
- Computational and Imaging-Based Cardiovascular Analysis
- Cardiopulmonary Interaction
- Neural Engineering
- Injury, Repair, and Regeneration
- Neuroprosthetics
- Neural Signal Processing and Stimulation
- Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Repair
- Neurorehabilitation Technologies
Emerging Technologies
- AI/ML in Healthcare and BME
- Predictive analytics and clinical decision support
- Wearable technologies and remote monitoring
- Personalized medicine
- Applications in medical imaging
- Brain Machine Interface
- Neural Simulations and Coding
- Organoid intelligence
Education & Workforce Development
- Biomedical Engineering Education
- Faculty development
- Pedagogy
- Assessment and evaluation
- Senior Capstone/Design
- Design thinking
- Capstone projects