Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Hubert Lim, Director, Bakken Medical Devices Center
Keynote Presentation: Dr. Korkut Uygun, Professor, Surgery, Harvard Medical School
MedTech Highlight: Dr. Shashank Priya, Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Minnesota
Welcoming Remarks: New Vision and Opportunities for the Bakken MDC
Hubert Lim
Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
Bakken Professorship for Engineering in Medicine
Endowed Lions Professorship in Otolaryngology
Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar
Co-Director, Center for Neural Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Plenary Keynote: Embracing the Extremes in Organ Preservation
Korkut Uygun, PhD
Professor, Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Abstract: Organ transplantation is undergoing simultaneous revolutions in preservation technologies and new sources including xenotransplantation. This talk will review the cutting edge in organ cryopreservation, and discuss broader implications in the field of transplantation and organ engineering in general.
Bio: Dr. Uygun brings a unique crossover between process systems engineering and surgery to the field of biopreservation. His PhD work focused on integration of process design and control, and identification of threat events for petrochemical process industries, with a specialization on model predictive control. In 2006 he joined MGH/HMS as a postdoc for training on liver surgery and transplantation. In 2008 he was awarded the NIH Pathway to independence award to fund development of metabolic models of the liver to recover unusable organs for transplantation. Since then, he has built this effort into a major program for reengineering organs, which aims to ensure all donor organs are utilized for public good. His laboratory features a vertically integrated transplantation program with small and large animal transplantation and human liver pseudo-transplantation, as well as mass spectrometry based metabolomics and systems biology expertise. He is particularly well known in supercooled organ preservation, a project he started at the cell level and successfully translated to rodent and then human donor liver models. Dr. Uygun’s lab is supported by the NIH, NSF, DoD as well as industry. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed works and 10 patent applications among other scholarly works.
MedTech Highlight: University of Minnesota and Medtronic Partnership Driving Transformative Healthcare Outcomes
Shashank Priya
Vice President for Research and Innovation
University of Minnesota