From Drug Delivery to Tissue Engineering: Bioengineering and its Impact on Human Health

In honor of Robert Langer, Sc.D., and Alian Carpentier, M.D., Ph.D. for their extraordinary contributions to medicine and innovations in bioengineering.

Program

Opening Remarks
    Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University
 

   Bioengineering and Its Impact on Cardiac Surgery
    Alain F. Carpentier, MD, PhD, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hôptial Européen Georges-Pompidou

   Biomaterials and Biotechnology: From the Development of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems to the Foundation of Tissue Engineering
    Robert S. Langer Jr., ScD, David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   

    Infection-Mimicking Polymers as a Cancer Vaccine
    David J. Mooney, PhD, School of Applied Engineering and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

    Cancer Nanotechnology to Hepatic Tissue Engineering
    Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD, Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    DNA Nanostructures as Building Blocks for Future Therapeutics
    William Shih, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University