GNB 2018, the Sixth National Congress of Bioengineering, will be held on 25 – 27 June 2018 at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
07:30-8:30 | Registration
08:30-09:00 | Welcome address
Donatella Sciuto, Executive Vice Rector, Politecnico di Milano
Maria Chiara Carrozza, GNB President
09:00-10.00 | Keynote speaker – Hans Van Oosterwyck, KU Leuven, Leuven // “Quantifying cellular forces during endothelial cell migration and vascular invasion”
Chair: Luca Cristofolini, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
10:00-10:30 | Coffee break
10:30-12:00 | Podium session (in collaboration with ESB-ITA)
Chairs: Christian Cipriani, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa – Federica Caselli, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
12:00-12:30 | Poster track presentation – Michele Conti, Università degli Studi di Pavia
Poster Track 1 – Biomechanics and mechanobiology / Poster Track 6 – Neural and rehabilitation engineering / S2P – GNB 2018 “Your idea in a tweet and an image”
12:30-14:00 | Lunch, Posters & LAB TOUR – “Laboratories of medical technologies”
GOVERNMENT FORUM
Moderator: Maria Chiara Carrozza, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa
14:00-14:15 | Introduction
14:15-14:45 | Daniela Corda, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
14:45-15:15 | Roberto Cingolani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
15:15-15:45 | Ugo Della Croce, Università degli Studi di Sassari
15:45-16:30 | Discussion
16:30-17:00 | Coffee break & posters
17:00-18:30 | Parallel sessions
Session 1 | PhD in Bioengineering Forum – Andrea Aliverti, Politecnico di Milano – Maria Gabriella Signorini, Politecnico di Milano (Room De Donato)
17:00-17:10 – PhD Bioengineering in Italy. State-of-the-art.
17:10-17:50 – Four recent stories of PhDs
17:50-18:30 – Round table (four answers from ‘influencers’)
Both PhDs and influencers come from a large BIO company, an entrepreneurship experience, a foreign Academia, a non-academic research institutions
Session 2 | ESB-ITA general assembly (Aula Magna)
18:30-20:00 | GNB Council
20:00-23:00 | PhD social event
08:00-09:00 | Registration
09:00-10.00 | Keynote speaker – Lena Maier-Hein, DKFZ – Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Heidelberg // “Combioscopy: A multidisciplinary approach to interventional cancer care”
Chair: Riccardo Bellazzi, Università degli Studi di Pavia
10:00-10:30 | Coffee break
10:30-12:00 | Open Podium Session (in collaboration with IEEE-Italian Chapter on Engineering in Medicine and Biology)
Chairs: Gianna Toffolo, Università degli Studi di Padova – Annalisa Bonfiglio, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
12:00-12:30 | Poster track presentation – Cristiana Corsi, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Poster Track 3 – E-Health and bioinformatics / Poster Track 4 – Signal processing and medical image processing
12:30-14:00 | Lunch, Posters & LAB TOUR – “Laboratories of biomechanics and biomedical signal processing”
14:00-16:15 | Parallel sessions
Session 1 | CLINICAL ENGINEERING FORUM
Moderator: Sergio Cerutti, Politecnico di Milano
14:00-14:10 | Introduction
14:10-14:30 | Elena Bottinelli, Irccs Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi and Irccs Ospedale San Raffaele
14:30-14:50 | Lorenzo Leogrande, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli
14:50-15:10 | Samuel Dal Gesso, Vice-Segretario Nazionale Fedir-Federazione Dirigenti e Direttivi Pubblici
15:10-15:30 | Diego Bravar, Biovalley Investments S.p.A.
15:30-16:15 | Discussion
Session 2 | S2P – GNB 2018: Innovation Corner (Aula Beltrami – Closed Session, access by invitation only)
16:15-16:45 | Coffee break & posters
18:00-23:00 | Cultural Event & Dinner
08:00-9:00 | Registration
09:00-10:00 | Keynote speaker – Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Chair: Silvestro Micera, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa
10:00-10:30 | Coffee break
10:30-12:00 | Oral Presentations
Chairs: Paolo Netti, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Antonella Motta, Università degli Studi di Trento
12:00-12:30 | Poster track presentation – Andrea Remuzzi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Poster Track 2 – Biomaterials and tissue engineering / Poster Track 5 – Artificial Organs, Medical and assistive robotics
12:30-14:00 | Lunch, Posters & LAB TOUR – “Laboratories of biological structure mechanics”
INDUSTRY FORUM
Moderator: Riccardo Pietrabissa, Politecnico di Milano
14:00-14:15 | Introduction
14:15-14:45 | Fabrizio Landi, Panakes Partners SGR
14:45-15:15 | Enrico Perfler, 1MED SA
15:15-15:45 | Discussion
15:45-16:45 | GNB 2018 Scientific and S2P Awards – Ferruccio Resta, Rector, Politecnico di Milano
16:45-17:00 | Closure of GNB 2018