2013 IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference (LSGCC)

Program

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Monday, December 2, 2013

Welcome Remarks

• Nitish Thakor, Ph.D., Conference Chair, Presentation
• YT Zhang, Ph.D., Program Chair,
• Moshe Kam, Ph.D., past IEEE President

Inauguration

• Prof. Tan Chorh Chuan, President, National University of Singapore Presentation
• Ms Yong Ying-I, Permanent Secretary, National Research and Development, Singapore
• Professor Sir George Radda, CBE FRS, Chairman, A*STAR Biomedical Research Council, Singapore Presentation

Plenary Talks – Biomedical Research: Knowledge, Inspiration and Science

• Barry Halliwell, Ph.D., Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, Deputy President for Research, NUS Presentation
• Alan Finkel, Ph.D, Chancellor, Monash University, President, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Monash University, Australia Presentation

Frontiers of Medical Robotics

• Paolo Dario, Ph.D., Director, The BioRobotics Institute and Polo Sant’Anna Valdera Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa” Italy Abstract
• Sunil K. Agrawal, Ph.D., Columbia University, USA Abstract

Frontiers of Bio-Nanotechnology

• Luke Lee, Ph.D., Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA Presentation
• Jing Cheng, Ph.D., Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of National Biochip Research and Engineering Center, Beijing, China Abstract

Neuro Night – Symposium on Frontiers of Human Brain

• Bruce Wheeler, Ph.D., University of Florida, President, IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Presentation
• Guan Cuntai, Ph.D., Principal Scientist and Department Head at the Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore Presentation,
• Nitish Thakor, Ph.D., Provost Chair Professor and Director, SINAPSE, Singapore; Johns Hopkins University, USA Presentation,
• José Millán, Ph.D., Defitech Chair in Non-Invasive Brain-Machine Interface, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne Switzerland Abstract
• Silvestro Micera, Ph.D., SSSA, Italy, and EPFL, Switzerland Presentation,
• Nigel Lovell, Ph.D., Scientia Professor at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia Presentation,

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Frontiers of Computational Medicine

• Plenary Talk – Benjamin Wah, Ph.D., Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong Abstract
• Peter Hunter, DPhil, FRS, Professor of Engineering Sciences, Auckland University, Director, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand Presentation,

Frontiers of Imaging

• David Townsend, Ph.D., Director of the A*STAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Center, Singapore Presentation,
• Jack Gallant, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, USA Presentation

Frontiers of Bioengineering

• Shuming Nie, Ph.D., Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Presentation,
• Rashid Bashir, Ph.D., Abel Bliss Professor and Head of Bioengineering Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA Abstract

Solutions to Global Health

• Balram Bhargava, MD, DM, FRCS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Executive Director, Stanford-Biodesign Center Abstract
• Y. T. Zhang, Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Herbert F. Voigt, Professor, Biomedical Engineering Boston University, USA and President, International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM) Presentation,
• Ooi Eng Eong, BM, BS, Ph.D., Duke-NUS, Singapore Abstract

Innovations and Entrepreneurship
Panel moderator: Tan Sze Wee, A*STAR BMRC

• Yoh-Chie Lu, Chairman Biosensor International Group, Ltd Presentation,
• Bijan Dorri, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare Systems Presentation,
• Steve Myint, Ph.D., Chairman of Plexpress Oy Presentation
• Steven Quake, Ph.D., Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University
• Florian Solzbacher, Ph.D., Chairman and President of Blackrock Microsystems and Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computing and Director of the Center for Engineering Innovation at the University of Utah, Abstract