News & Events / BME Seminar SeriesOpen BME Seminar Series
We are thrilled to announce that Northwestern will be a part of the Open BME Seminar Series this Winter and Spring. This virtual series is being coordinated by seven of the leading BME departments across the country. The goal is to expose our graduate students to cutting edge ideas in the field of biomedical engineering, attracting a group of high-quality speakers that would be difficult for any single department to host on their own.
All Seminars will take place via Zoom over the next two quarters.
2021 Schedule:
Bioengineering for COVID-19: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) at 
Bruce Tromberg, PhDUnprecedented Speed and Scale
February 4th, 3-4pm CST
Dr. Bruce J. Tromberg |
NIH/NIBIB
Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health
Host: Dr. Lori Setton (Washington University in St. Louis)
Gene Targeting of Stem Cells to Create Effective and Safe Medicines
Matthew Porteus, PhD
February 18th, 3-4pm CST
Dr. Matthew Porteus|
Stanford University
Professor of Pediatrics- Stem Cell Transplantation
Host: Dr. Gang Bao (Rice University)
As the world gets smaller, how can we expand the biomedical engineering impact to global health?
Adriana Velazquez
February 25th, 3-4pm CST
Adriana Velazquez |
World Health Organization
Group Lead Medical Devices and In-Vitro Diagnostics
Host:Dr. Horst von Recum (Case Western University)
Systems Neuroscience
Danielle Bassett, PhD
March 4th, 3-4pm CST
Dr. Danielle Bassett |
University of Pennsylvania
J. Peter Skirkanich Professor, Bioengineering
Host: Dr. Robert Kirsch (Case Western University)
Learning clinically useful information from medical images
Daniel Ruckert, PhD
March 18th, 3-4pm CST
Dr. Daniel Rueckert |
Imperial College London
Professor of Visual Information Processing and former Head of the Department of Computing
Host: Dr. Frederick Epstein (University of Virginia)
Making Faces: Regenerating Craniofacial Bone
Warren Grayson, PhD
March 25th, 3-4pm CST
Dr. Warren Grayson |
Johns Hopkins University
Professor and Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs in Biomedical Engineering
Host: Dr. Guillermo Ameer (Northwestern University)
Synthetic Genome Regulation for Cell and Tissue Engineering
Tim Downing, PhD
April 1st, 3-4pm CST
Dr. Tim Downing |
University of California Irvine
Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Host: Dr. Sriram Chandrasekaran (University of Michigan)
Synthetic Biology: Life Redesigned
James Collins, PhD
April 8th, 3-4pm CST
Dr. James Collins |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science
Host: Dr. Sanjeev Shroff (University of Pittsburgh)