Committee & Speakers
Keynote Speakers


Anna C. Balazs
Distinguished Professor
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Chris Chen
Boston University, USA

Prof. Georg Duda
Berlin Institute of Health, Charité, and Wyss Institute, Harvard University, USA




Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Northwestern University, USA

Samir Mitragotri
Wyss Institute, Harvard University, USA





Xavier Trepat
Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain

Krystyn Van Vliet
Vice President
Cornell Engineering, USA
Conference Chairs

Prof. Viola Vogel
Department of Health Sciences and Technology; Institute of Translational Medicine, ETH Zurich
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Prof. Peter Friedl
Department of Medical BioSciences, Radboudumc, The Netherlands
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Prof. Markus J. Buehler
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials
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