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 Medicine
Yamada Corporation Chaired Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Orthopedics Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. 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 Entrepreneurship
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 Institute

Dr. 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 Institute

Dr. Pankaj Karande, Ph.D

Investigator in the Black Family Stem Cell Institute, The Ronald Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease
Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, and Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Joel Blanchard, Ph.D

Dean of Scholarly & Research Technologies, Vice President of Information Technology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Paul Lawrence, Ph.D

Associate Professor, Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy at  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Dr. 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 Health

Dr. Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Dr. 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 Sciences

Dr. Stefan Semrau, Ph.D

Director of the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Executive Director Blau Cente
Professor 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.

Dr. B Wayne Bequette, Ph.D