External Speaker Series

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, is pleased to welcome Gilbert Bernier, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Université de Montréal. The title of […]

Note: We are excited to transition Conversations in Convergence from a virtual to an in-person event, providing more opportunity for networking and potential collaboration. Join us for our Conversations in Convergence series, which features interactive discussions between Medicine by Design researchers who study similar questions using different approaches. The theme of this conversation will be, […]

Date: Thursday July 21, 2022 Time: 10:00am – 11:00am Location: Donnelly Centre 160 College Street, 2nd Floor, Red Seminar Room   Dr. Daniel A. Heller, PhD Cornell University   Abstract We develop nanotechnologies to accelerate the research, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and allied diseases. We focus on nanoparticle drug delivery systems and nanosensor-based diagnostics […]

Special Seminar Date: Thursday August 25, 2022 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Location: Donnelly Centre 160 College Street, 2nd Floor, Red Seminar Room Dr. Cole A. DeForest, PhD University of Washington Abstract The extracellular matrix directs stem cell function through a complex choreography of biomacromolecular interactions in a tissue-dependent manner. Far from static, this hierarchical milieu […]

About the series To what extent can we plan and design our careers? How much depends on our environment, the choices we make, the opportunities that present themselves, the networks we build, and the achievements and failures we experience along the way? Medicine by Design and Stem Cell Network have partnered to host Careers Beyond […]

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, is pleased to welcome Gordon Fishell, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and the Stanley Center at the Broad. The […]

Daniela Panáková, Ph.D. Group Leader Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany Daniela Panáková received her PhD in 2005 at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany under the supervision of Suzanne Eaton. She has worked with Drosophila model on the concept of how the hydrophobic morphogens such as Wnt can spread in […]

Derk Joester, PhD. Associate Professor Department of Materials Science & Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA Compositional And Structural Gradients In Dental Enamel: From Nano- To Mesoscale Tuesday October 11, 2022 12:00 pm Biography: Derk Joester is originally from Munich (Bavaria, Germany) and studied Chemistry in Tübingen. He travelled to the US on a Fulbright […]

About the series To what extent can we plan and design our careers? How much depends on our environment, the choices we make, the opportunities that present themselves, the networks we build, and the achievements and failures we experience along the way? Medicine by Design and Stem Cell Network have partnered to host Careers Beyond […]

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, is pleased to welcome Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, PhD, Senior Scientist and Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science. The title […]

Jordi Alastruey, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London ***This is a Zoom only event Jordi Alastruey received the M.Sc. degree in civil engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Imperial College London (ICL), London, U.K., in […]

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, is pleased to welcome Martin Fussenegger, PhD, Professor, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich. The title of this talk […]