Program at a glance.
July 27th
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Meet & Greet: Coffee & Light Breakfast
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Networking Lunch
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM NIH/NCATS Quantum Initiative
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM Computational Biology & Genomic Data
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Quantum Computing in Biomarker Discovery with multidimensional data and EHRs
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Cookie & Networking Break (HSE PhD Poster Presentation)
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM Advanced Organoids, Bioprinting and Microphysiological Systems
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM Quantum Imaging
July 28th
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Open Breakfast and Networking
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM Plenary Talk- Quantum-Centric & Hybrid Computing
9:45 AM – 10:30 AM Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurovascular Immunology
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Networking Break
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Women’s Health Initiative- Clinical Management of Menopausal Transition and Chronic Diseases
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Russell Sage Dining Hall: Lunch and Plenary Lecture
1:30 PM– 2:15 PM Quantum Computing in Molecular Modeling and Drug Discovery
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Personalized Medicine with Cell and Gene Therapy
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Concluding Remarks
Meet our Symposium Co-Chairs
Co-Director Center for Engeineering and Precision MedicineYamada Corporation Chaired Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAdjunct Professor, Department of Orthopedics Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiDr. Deepak Vashisth, Ph.D
Co-Director Center for Engeineering and Precision Medicine.Professor of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, and Endowed Professor of Engineering Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Director of the Advanced Neuroimaging Research Program (ANRP) Associate Director of the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII).Dr. Priti Balchandani, Ph.D
Vice President and Head of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Future of Computing Institute (FOCI)Dr. John Kolb, PhD
Chief Scientist and Center Director of the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dr. Chris Carothers, Ph.D
Meet our Session Co-Chairs
Program Manager of Education and Entrepreneurship/Innovation with Mount Sinai Innovation Partners.Dr. Vibhor Mahajan, Ph.D
Dr. Eric Ledet, Ph.D
Director, Severino Center for Technological EntrepreneurshipBio linked here .
Deputy Director, Office of Special Initiatives National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institute of Health (NIH)Dr. Geetha Senthil, Ph.D
Professor and Department Head of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Mohamed Zaki, Ph.D
Benjamin Glicksberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in the Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health and the Founding Director of the Center for AI in Children’s Health at the Icahn School of Medicine. He is also a Member of the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health, and Adjunct Faculty of Digital Engineering at the Hasso Planner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Pankaj Karande, Ph.D
Investigator in the Black Family Stem Cell Institute, The Ronald Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s DiseaseAssistant Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, and Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiDr. Joel Blanchard, Ph.D
Dean of Scholarly & Research Technologies, Vice President of Information Technology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiDr. Paul Lawrence, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Moussa Ngom, Ph.D
Director of the Glickenhaus Center for Successful Aging, and Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence and Human HealthDr. Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Andres Munoz Rojas Ph.D
Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Nanomedicine with the Icahn Genomics Institute, the Marc and Jennifer Lipzhultz Precision Immunology Institute (PrIISM), the Department of of Immunology and Immunotherapy, and the Department of Oncological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.Dr. Yizhou Dong, Ph.D
NYSCF Senior Director, Computational Biology & Data SciencesDr. Stefan Semrau, Ph.D
Director of the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized MedicineExecutive Director Blau CenteProfessor of AI, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Dr. Alexander Charney, MD, PhD
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Technology Manager for the Northern Regional Center of the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.