Program

Monday, December 2, 2013

7:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:30 Welcome Remarks

Nitish Thakor, Ph.D., Conference Chair, YT Zhang, Ph.D., Program Chair, Moshe Kam, Ph.D., past IEEE President

Inauguration

President, National University of Singapore, Prof. Tan Chorh Chuan,
Ms Yong Ying-I, Permanent Secretary, National Research and Development, Singapore
“Biomedical Knowledge in the Service of Man: Social Responsibility of the Scientist”, Professor Sir George Radda, CBE FRS, Chairman, A*STAR Biomedical Research Council, Singapore

10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks – Biomedical Research: Knowledge, Inspiration and Science

“The Wanderings of a Free Radical”, Barry Halliwell, Ph.D., Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, Deputy President for Research, NUS
“Parallel Paths of Evolution and Inspiration”, Alan Finkel, Ph.D, Chancellor, Monash University, President, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Monash University, Australia

12:30-1:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing

1:30-3:00 Frontiers of Medical Robotics

3:00-3:30 Tea/Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Frontiers of Bio-Nanotechnology

“Bionanoscience for Innovative Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART)”, Luke Lee, Ph.D., Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
“Biochips for Integrative Medicine”, Jing Cheng, Ph.D., Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of National Biochip Research and Engineering Center, Beijing, China

5:00-6:30 Reception and Poster Viewing

6:30-9:30 Neuro Night – Symposium on Frontiers of Human Brain

“Reverse and Forward Engineering of the Brain”, Bruce Wheeler, Ph.D., University of Florida, President, IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
“Brain-Computer Interface for Stroke Rehabilitation”, Guan Cuntai, Ph.D., Principal Scientist and Department Head at the Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
“Revolutionizing Prosthesis with Brain Machine Interface”, Nitish Thakor, Ph.D., Provost Chair Professor and Director, SINAPSE, Singapore; Johns Hopkins University, USA
“The Rise of Neuroprosthetics: The Perception-Action Closed Loop”, Jose Millan, Ph.D., Defitech Chair in Non-Invasive Brain-Machine Interface, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne Switzerland
“Novel Neuro-Robotic solutions: Hybridness and custimization to restore quality of life”, Silvestro Micera, Ph.D., SSSA, Italy, and EPFL, Switzerland
“Medical Device Technologies for Managing Disease and Wellness”, Nigel Lovell, Ph.D., Scientia Professor at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia

9:00-10:30 Frontiers of Computational Medicine

Plenary Talk – “Challenges of Big Data in Scientific Discovery”, Benjamin Wah, Ph.D., Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Computational Physiology: An overview of the VPH/Physiome project”, Peter Hunter, DPhil, FRS, Professor of Engineering Sciences, Auckland University, Director, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand

10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

11:00-12:30 Frontiers of Imaging

“Laying Ghosts to Rest: Imaging Function with Structure”, David Townsend, Ph.D., Director of the A*STAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Center, Singapore
“Detailed Mapping of Cognitive and Perceptual Information Across the Human Brain”, Jack Gallant, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, USA

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch and Poster Viewing

1:30-3:00 Frontiers of Bioengineering

“Nanomedicine: New Opportunities in Targeted Cancer Therapy and Image-Guided Surgery”, Shuming Nie, Ph.D., Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
“Cell-based Systems, Bio-fabrication, and Cellular Machines”, Rashid Bashir, Ph.D., Abel Bliss Professor and Head of Bioengineering Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA

3:00-4:30 Solutions to Global Health

“Healthcare Innovation in India: Challenges and Opportunities”, Balram Bhargava, MD, DM, FRCS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Executive Director, Stanford-Biodesign Center
“Cardiovascular Health Informatics: Wearable Technologies and Unobtrusive Measurements”, Y. T. Zhang, Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong
“A Grand Challenge for Technology Development for Heavy Metal Detection”, Herbert F. Voigt, Professor, Biomedical Engineering Boston University, USA and President, International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM)
“Challenges of Overcoming the Global Burden of Dengue”, Ooi Eng Eong, BM, BS, Ph.D., Duke-NUS, Singapore

4:30-5:00 pm Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

5:00-6:30 Innovations and Entrepreneurship
Panel moderator: Tan Sze Wee, A*STAR BMRC

“Asia as a Future Medtech Hub: Case Study of Biosensors”, Yoh Chie, Chairman Biosensor International Group, Ltd
“The Two Valleys of Deaths in Technology Commercialization”, Bijan Dorri, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare Systems
“Life science research commercialisation – the Finnish experience.”Steve Myint, Ph.D., Chairman of Plexpress Oy
Steven Quake, Ph.D., Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University
“Generic research tools: new paths towards accelerating patient impact for implantable”, Florian Solzbacher, Ph.D., Chairman and President of Blackrock Microsystems and Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computing and Director of the Center for Engineering Innovation at the University of Utah

7:00 pm End of Conference & Poster take down