ORS Upstate New York and Northeast Regional & 7th Annual CMSR Symposium Thursday, July 27–Friday, July 28, 2017 • University of Rochester

THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2017

8:00am–8:45am Poster Set Up | BME, Robert B. Goergen Hall Atrium, River Campus

8:55am–9:00am Welcome Remarks by Edward Schwarz, PhD | Class of ’62 Auditorium, Medical Campus

9:00am–11:00am UR Center for Musculoskeletal Research Rosier Award Finalist Presentations Class of ’62 Auditorium, Medical Campus

11:00am–11:30am Check-In | Outside Class of ’62 Auditorium, Medical Campus

11:30am–11:45am ORS Ambassador Remarks & Keynote Introduction Catherine K. Kuo, PhD, ORS Ambassador–Northeast & Hani Awad, PhDClass of ’62 Auditorium, Medical Campus

11:45am– 12:45pm

Engineering New Biologic Therapies for Arthritis Farshid Guilak, PhDClass of ’62 Auditorium, Medical Campus

Dr. Farshid Guilak is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University, Director of Research for the St Louis Shriners Hospitals for Children, and is Co-Director of the Washington University Center of Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Guilak, a global leader with more than 300 publications in the osteoarthritis and cartilage tissue engineering fields, is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomechanics, Associate Editor for Osteoarthritis & Cartilage, and is past President of the Orthopaedic Research Society.

12:50pm–1:40pm Lunch Pick Up | Walk to Robert B. Goergen Hall, River Campus | Browse Posters

1:40pm–4:00pm Poster Sessions | BME, Robert B. Goergen Hall Atrium, River CampusPoster Session 1 (Odd Number Posters) 1:40pm–2:40pm | Poster Session 2 (Even Number Posters) 3:00pm–4:00pm

4:00pm–5:30pm Career Development Panels | BME, Robert B. Goergen Hall, River Campus

6:00pm–8:30pm Awards Banquet | Divinity School, Rochester, NY (Tickets required)

FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2017

8:00am–9:00am Navigating (and Hopefully Receiving) Orthopaedics-Related Funding from NSFMichele Grimm, PhD, Program Director, NSFClass of ’62 Auditorium, Medical Campus

9:00am–10:00am NIH 101Fei Wang, PhD, Program Director, NIH, NIAMSClass of ’62 Auditorium, Medical Campus

10:00am–10:05am Symposium Closing Remarks | Class of ’62 Auditorium, Medical Campus

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