Special session: Covid-19

Symposium Chair

Dalia Yablon
Technical Program Chair
TechConnect World Innovation Conference

Key Speakers

Femtomolar SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Detection Using the Microbubbling Digital Assay with Smartphone Readout
Ping Wang
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Merging biochemistry and photonic chip technology to enable ubiquitous point-of-need and at-home diagnostics
Diedrik Vermeulen
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, SiPhox, Inc.

Low-cost diagnostic biosensors for COVID-19
Cesar de La Fuente
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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	Monday October 18
1:30	COVID-19: Diagnostics
	Tuesday October 19
8:30	Biotech & Medtech Track Keynotes

2021 Symposium Program
	Monday October 18

1:30	COVID-19: Diagnostics	Baltimore 4
	Session chair: Jeannine Coburn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute & Prakash Nallathamby, University of Notre Dame
1:30	Merging biochemistry and photonic chip technology to enable ubiquitous point-of-need and at-home diagnostics D. Vermeulen, SiPhox, Inc., US
1:55	Low-cost diagnostic biosensors for COVID-19 C. de la Fuente, University of Pennsylvania, US
2:20	Femtomolar SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Detection Using the Microbubbling Digital Assay with Smartphone Readout P. Wang, University of Pennsylvania, US
2:45	SalivaDirect: A simplified and flexible platform to enhance SARS-CoV-2 testing capacity A.L. Wyllie, C.B.F. Vogels, O. Allicock, A.E. Watkins, M.E. Petrone, D. Yolda Carr, C.A. Harden, D.E. Brackney, C.C. Kalinich, M. Breban, I.M. Ott, R. Sikka, L. Kadiri, N.D. Grubaugh, Yale School of Public Health, US
3:05	Ultrafast COVID-19 Diagnosis using Saliva Sample A. Ramanujam, G.G. Botte, Texas Tech University, US
3:25	Rapid and Inexpensive Point-of-Use (POU) Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Quantification with Membrane-Based in-Gel Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (mgLAMP) System J. Li, Y. Zhu, X. Wu, A. Gu, L. Dobelle, C.A. Cid, M.R. Hoffmann, California Institute of Technology, US
3:45	Fast COVID-19 diagnosis with deep learning and chest X-rays: from toy datasets to clinical applications, pp. 165-168 S.D. Dias, P.E.M. Lopes, FastCompChem, Lda, PT
	Tuesday October 19

8:30	Biotech & Medtech Track Keynotes	Woodrow Wilson C
	Session chair: Jeannine Coburn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
8:30	Integrating Nanotechnology with 3D Bioprinting for Vascularized Tissue Regeneration H. Cui, T. Esworthy, L.G. Zhang, The George Washington University, US
9:00	Innovation in Interbody Spinal Fusion Implants with Porous and Bioactive Composites: The Journey from Concept to Commercialization R.K. Roeder, University of Notre Dame, US
9:30	Accessing Intracellular Targets for Therapeutic Gain in Major Diseases S. Dhar, University of Miami, US