2026 Session Tracks

TRACK: AI in BME

SUBTRACKS:

• AI for Diagnostics and Clinical Decision Support
• Biomedical Signal and Image Processing with AI
• Personalized and Precision Medicine Enabled by AI
• AI-Powered Patient Modeling, Simulation, and Digital Twins
• AI for Therapeutics and Drug Discovery
• Wearable Devices, Mobile Health, and Remote Monitoring with AI
• Foundation Models and Advanced AI Architectures for Biomedical Applications
• Agentic AI for Healthcare Operations and Clinical Workflows
• Ethics, Privacy, Data Security, Trustworthy, Equitable, and Responsible AI in Healthcare
• AI in Biomedical Engineering Education and Training
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology

TRACK CHAIRS:

• Polimyr Dingal,The University of Texas at Dallas
• Ahmet Coskun, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory University 
• Sophia Orbach, Rowan University

SUBTRACKS:

• Analysis of Cell Signaling
• Analysis of Multi-Cellular and Spatial Systems
• Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications
• Models of Metabolism
• Multiscale Computation Modeling
• Novel Methods for Systems Biology
• Omics Data: Methods, Modeling and Analysis
• Single-Cell Measurements and Models
• Precision and Predictive Medicine
• Theory and Practice of Synthetic Biology
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Biomanufacturing

SUBTRACKS:

• Organ-on-a-Chip
• Organoids, Tissue and Organ Models
• Microphysiological Systems (MPS)
• 3D Bioprinting and Biofabrication Technologies
• Bioinks and Biomaterials Innovation
• Molecular and Cell Biomanufacturing
• Synthetic Biology for Biomanufacturing
• Bioprocessing, monitoring, and preservation
• AI-Driven Biofabrication and Biomanufacturing
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Biomaterials

• 3D Printing, Biomaterial-Enabled Manufacturing, Processing & Biofabrication
• Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering
• Drug Delivery & Therapeutic Biomaterials
• Immunoengineering, Immunomodulation & Host Response
• Biomaterial-Enabled Organoids, Microphysiological Systems & Model Microenvironments
• Mechanics, Structure & Function of Biomaterials
• AI/ML in Biomaterials
• Theory, Computation & Modeling in Biomaterials Design
• Multi-Property Optimization of Biomaterials
• Biomaterials Integration with Electronics, Devices & Biointerfaces (includes MPS)
• Implantation, Translation & Clinical Applications of Biomaterials
• Natural, Bioinspired & Living Materials
• Precision & Personalized Biomaterials
• Sustainable & Circular Biomaterials
• Emerging & High-Impact Topics
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Biomechanics

SUBTRACKS:

• Biofluid Mechanics
• Biomechanics in Cell and Tissue Engineering
• Biomechanics of Rehabilitation/Injury
• Cancer Mechanobiology
• Cardiovascular Biomechanics
• Cellular and Molecular Biomechanics: Mechanobiology
• Computational and Multiscale Modeling
• Human Performance/Sports Biomechanics
• Matrix Effects in Mechanobiology
• Mechanics of the Respiratory System
• Mechanobiology of Stem Cell Engineering
• Neurobiomechanics
• Mechanotransduction and Signaling
• Immuno-mechanobiology
• Biomechanical Methods and Techniques
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Biomedical Engineering Education

TRACK: Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation

• Pengfei Song, Duke University
• Qinggong Tang, University of Oklahoma
• Grace McIlvain, Columbia University    

SUBTRACKS:

• Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutic Ultrasound
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Applications (MRI)
• Nuclear Medicine Imaging (PET/SPECT)
• X-ray Computed Tomography (CT)
• Optical Microscopy, Endoscopy and Spectroscopy (Optics)
• Photoacoustic and Optoacoustic Imaging (PAI)
• Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
• Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence In Biomedical Imaging
• Imaging Genome, Molecules, Cells, and Organoids
• Imaging Tissues, Organs, and Physiological Systems
• Metabolic Imaging of Aging and Diseases
• Emerging Imaging Technologies and Data Processing
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Cancer Technologies

• Donny Hanjaya-Putra, University of Notre Dame
• Ioannis Zervantonakis, University of Pittsburgh
• Shreyas Rao, The University of Alabama

SUBTRACKS:

• Cancer Nanotechnology and Drug Delivery
• Computational Modeling of Cancer
• Engineered Cancer Models: Organ-on-Chip and Organoids
• Circulating Biomarkers: CTCs, Extracellular Vesicles, and DNA
• Imaging Strategies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis
• Molecular Profiling and Genetic Perturbations in Cancer
• Tumor Microenvironment: Stroma, Extracellular Matrix, and Physical Environment
• Tumor-Immune Interactions, Immunoengineering, and Immunotherapy
• Cancer Metabolism, Migration, Metastasis, and Dormancy
• Emerging and Cross-Cutting Topics
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Cardiovascular Engineering

TRACK: Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

TRACK CHAIRS:

• Soham Ghosh, Colorado State University
• Cat Majors, Clemson University
• Owen McCarty, Oregon Health & Science University

SUBTRACKS:

TRACK: Device Technologies and Biomedical Robotics

TRACK CHAIRS:

• Siwei Zhao, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Zheng Yan, University of Missouri
• W. Hong Yeo, Georgia Tech University

TRACK: Drug Delivery

• Natalia Higuita-Castro, The Ohio State University
• Alexandra Piotrowski-Daspit, University of Michigan
• Kaushal Rege, Arizona State University

• Cell and Gene Therapy Delivery
• Targeted Delivery
• Overcoming Physiological Barriers to Delivery
• Delivery Systems for Immunomodulation and Immunotherapy
• Cancer Drug Delivery
• AI-Driven Drug Delivery Design
• Personalized Delivery and Clinical Translation
• Local Delivery Systems
• Other/Non-specified
  

TRACK: Global Health Technologies

TRACK CHAIRS:

• Limei Tian, Texas A&M University
• Bryan Ranger, Boston College
• Suelia Fleury Rosa, Cornell University

SUBTRACKS:

• Automated Technologies for use In developing countries
• Industry Pathways into Other countries
• International collaborations on chronic Disease
• International collaborations on infectious Disease
• Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Global Health Technologies and Systems
• Social science collaborations across countries
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Immunoengineering

TRACK CHAIRS:

• James Ankrum, The University of Iowa
• Matthew Wolf, National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Center for Cancer Research at the National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Abhinav Acharya, Case Western Reserve University

SUBTRACKS:

• New Strategies for Vaccine Development
• Immunoengineering and Synthetic Immunology
• Immune Tolerance and Stromal Immunity
• Systems, computational, and Spatial Immunology
• Immune Competent New Approach Methodologies
• Cancer Immunotherapy
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Nano and Micro Technologies

• John Obayemi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Stefan Wilhelm, University of Oklahoma
• Theresa Raimondo, Brown University

TRACK: Neural Engineering

TRACK: Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering

TRACK: Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases

TRACK: Tissue Engineering

TRACK CHAIRS:

• Era Jain, Syracuse University
• William Polacheck, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Jeffrey Jacot, University of Colorado Anschutz

SUB-TRACKS:

• Tissue Engineering Models of Disease
• Tissue Engineering for Regenerative Medicine and Translation
• Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering
• Immunoengineering and Immunomodulation in Tissue Engineering
• Mechanobiology in Cell and Tissue Engineering
• Therapeutic & cell delivery in tissue engineering"
• Other/Non-specified

TRACK: Women's Health

TRACK CHAIRS:

• Kelsey Swingle, Rice University
• Lydia Sohn, University of California Berkeley
• Joscelyn Mejias, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory University

SUB-TRACKS

• Reproductive and Maternal Health
• Gynecological and Breast Health
• Women's Cancers
• Fem-Tech and Digital Health
• Sex Differences in Health and Disease
• Other/Non-specified