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We invite you to join the inaugural session of our new webinar series, Bioscience Research Spotlight.
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The first session focuses on advances in drug delivery and will feature a distinguished panel of researchers in the field. The one-hour virtual event will include lightning-style presentations followed by an interactive Q&A discussion.
This webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from the researchers behind the work, learn about emerging developments in drug delivery, and gain valuable insight into the future of research in the field.
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Register Now: Bioscience Research Spotlight: Drug Delivery Webinar
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Dr. Yi Cao
Editor-in-Chief, Biophysics Reviews
Nanjing University, China
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Dr. Yi Cao is a professor in the Institute of Biomedical Physics at Nanjing University. In January of 2026, he became the new Editor-in-Chief of Biophysics Reviews.
His research group investigates biomaterials, soft matter mechanics, mechanobiology, and single-molecule biophysics. His work integrates single-molecule force spectroscopy, polymer chemistry, and synthetic biology to uncover design principles of natural biomaterials and engineer high-performance synthetic materials. He has published more than 190 papers, accumulating over 13,000 citations and an h-index of 65, and has been recognized with major honors including the IUPAP C6 Young Scientist Award and the Distinguished Young Scholars Award from the National Science Foundation of China.
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Dr. Horacio Dante Espinosa
Northwestern University, USA
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Professor Horacio D. Espinosa is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, with courtesy appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research spans deformation and failure of materials, biomaterials mechanics, nanoscale and microscale systems, and microfluidic technologies for cellular analysis and gene editing. He has published more than 350 technical papers and is internationally recognized for innovations that connect experimental mechanics, materials science, and bioengineering. A member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors, Professor Espinosa has also received numerous major honors from ASME, SEM, and SES. He has mentored over 80 trainees and has played major leadership roles in research, education, publishing, and the international mechanics community.
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Dr. Minjun Son
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago, USA
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Dr. Minjun Son is a Fellow at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago, where he leads the Microtissue Signaling Dynamics group. His research integrates microfluidics, single-cell analysis, and systems biology to understand how immune cells process dynamic signals in space and time. Previously, he held research positions at the University of Chicago and the University of Florida. Dr. Son has published broadly in high-impact journals, including Cell Systems, Science Advances, and Science Signaling, and has received recognition through awards such as a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Biohub Collaboration Grant.
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This presentation highlights the development of advanced microfluidic technologies that enable precise intracellular delivery, genome engineering, and real-time analysis of living cells. By combining live-cell analysis devices with plasmonic biosensing, the platform can continuously and noninvasively monitor cellular signaling molecules such as cytokines and growth factors from 2D and 3D cultures. The work ultimately aims to create an integrated high-throughput system for tissue culture, drug screening, imaging, and biofluid analysis to better understand inflammation dynamics and disease-related cellular responses.
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Dr. Marco Rasponi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Marco Rasponi is Full Professor of Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano, where he leads the MiMic Lab within the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB). His research focuses on organ-on-chip platforms that integrate microfluidics, biomechanical and electrical stimulation, and human cell biology to model cardiac, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal and pulmonary tissues, with a strong translational orientation toward drug discovery and safety assessment. He is co-founder of BiomimX Srl, a Politecnico di Milano spin-off translating organ-on-chip technology into pharma R&D workflows, and currently serves as Chair of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS).
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Liver–Heart on chip models for drug safety
Erika Ferrari, Marco Rasponi
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The presented work introduces a microfluidic platform that integrates, for the first time within a single microscale device, all three key cues of the native cardiac niche — biochemical, mechanical and electrical — to generate and condition 3D cardiac microtissues. A pair of stainless-steel electrodes enables uniform electrical stimulation under controlled electric-field (5 V/cm) or controlled current-density (74.4 mA/cm²) regimes, while a pressure-actuated chamber delivers cyclic uniaxial stretch, and the two stimuli can be combined to mimic the isovolumic contraction of the heart. Beyond producing microtissues with enhanced excitability, conduction and contractility, the platform supports drug-response readouts — demonstrated here by the dose-dependent chronotropic response to isoprenaline — positioning it as a physiologically relevant tool for cardiac drug screening and safety pharmacology.
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Dr. Ashutosh Agarwal
University of Miami, USA
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Ashutosh Agarwal is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Engineering & Applied Physics for the Desai Sethi Urology Institute at the University of Miami. He co-directs Engineering Cancer Cures, a collaborative initiative of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and College of Engineering. His undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, and his PhD from University of Florida are both in Materials Science and Engineering. He then gathered postdoctoral research experience in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, and at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. His expertise lies in the engineering of physiologically relevant fluidic platforms that service Organs on Chips, Organoids on Chips, Live Organ Slices, and recently, Organ perfusion, preservation and transportation for whole human eyes.
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 Engineered tools to study endocrine dysfunction of pancreas
Charles G. Alver, Juan Dominguez-Bendala, Ashutosh Agarwal
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We will present the unique design challenges and solutions for culturing and interrogating human pancreatic islets, live pancreatic slices, and recapitulating islet-immune interactions within microfluidic chips.
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