2025 Statewide Biomedical Science and Engineering Research Symposium
Save the Date!
The annual symposium will be held Wednesday & Thursday, September 24 & 25 on the University of Southern Maine campus in Hannaford Hall. This year’s symposium will kick off Wednesday with keynote and student speakers, poster sessions judging, and receptions. This will be followed by a full day Thursday with the theme on Aging, focusing on neurodegeneration, metabolism (i.e., metabolic syndrome, diabetes, bone, etc.), cardiovascular physiology, and AI. Integrated into these themes will be presentations on stem cells and tissue regeneration.
We would like to remind everyone the public and social health portion of the symposium will be a part of the Maine Public Health Association’s annual event which will be held at the Augusta Civic Center on Monday, October 27.
vENUE
University of Southern Maine – Hannaford Hall
A warm and welcoming performance space located at 88 Bedford Street on the USM Portland campus, Hannaford Hall is an intimate 520-seat venue with 130-seat mezzanine.
Hotel Information
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
363 Maine Mall Road, Portland, ME
(207) 775-6161
Tru by Hilton
369 Maine Mall Road, South Portland, ME
(207) 221-3131
Organizing Committee
David Harder, PH. D
University Research Professor of Medicine; Director UMaine Institute of Medicine
Hermann Haller, MD
President, Professor, MDI Biological Laboratory
Professor, Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School
Karen L. Houseknecht, PH. D
Professor of Pharmacology, Senior Associate Provost, Vice President for Research
James W. Jarvis, MD, FAAFP
Director of Clinical Education, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Senior Physician Executive, System Incident Command, Northern Light Health
Gareth Howell, PH. D
Professor, Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Chair for Glaucoma Research
Kevin Stein, PH. D
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Population & Health Research (CIPHR); Faculty Scientist III, MaineHealth Institute for Research (MHIR); Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; Full Member, University of Vermont Cancer Center, Cancer Population Sciences Program
Douglas Sawyer, MD
Chief Academic Officer, Maine Medical Center and Maine Health, Co-Director, Myocardial Biology and Heart Failure Laboratory, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Raimond Winslow, PH. D
Director of Life Science and Medicine Research; Professor of Bioengineering.
Schedule will be posted by mid-May. It will include sessions on neuromodulation and vision, metabolic factors in aging and disease, genetic and epigenetic influences on aging and disease, skeletal and cardiac muscle and cell signaling & tissue regeneration.
Schedule
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