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Grodins Lecture

Grodins Lecture


The Viterbi School’s Biomedical Engineering Department has named its keynote lecture for the late Fred S. Grodins, the department’s founding chair.

Grodin’s 1963 publication, “Control Theory and Biological Systems,” is a landmark document on the earliest applications of engineering control theory to physiological systems.

2012 / 2013 Speaker
 

Dennis E. Discher, Ph.D.
Robert D. Bent Chaired Professor
Biophysical Engineering & NanoBio-Polymers Lab
University of Pennsylvania

February 14, 2013, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center
Boardroom, 2nd Floor

Refreshments to follow lecture

‘Self’ versus ‘Foreign’ and Soft versus Stiff – Cell-cell and Cell-Matrix-Nuclear mechanisms in survival and differentiation

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2013 / 2014 Speaker


Antonios Mikos
Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Director, Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering
Director, J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering
Rice University

September 5, 2013, Time TBA
Location TBA

Title TBA

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Past Speakers

 

 

2011 / 2012
Savio L-Y. Woo, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Eng.
Distinguished University Professor
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Bioengineering: The Bridge between Biology and Orthopaedic Surgery"
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2010
Shu Chien, MD, PhD
University Professor and Y.C. Fung Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
University of California, San Diego
"Perspectives of Biomedical Engineering"
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2009
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, MD, PhD
Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience
Depts. of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Psychology and Neuroscience
Co-Director, Duke Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University
"Computing with Neural Ensembles"
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2008
Matthew O'Donnell, Ph.D
Frank and Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle.
"Can Ultrasound Become the Dominant Molecular Imaging Modality"
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2007
Douglas Lauffenburger (inaugural lecture)
"Bioengineering and Systems Biology: A Promising Intersection for Bioscience and Biotechnology"
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