Events

Join Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Dean Rashid Bashir (CGD/M-CELS/RBTE) to explore the grand opportunities to address grand challenges across engineering, biology, and medicine during COVID-19. Dean Bashir will give a closer look into Grainger College of  Engineering’s response to the COVID-19 crisis including his work developing COVID-19 diagnostics. Sponsored by the Don and Catherine Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society.

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Presented by Professors Chris Brooke, Colin Kieffer, Rebecca Smith and Jessica Brinkworth, members of IGB’s Infection Genomics for One Health research theme.

“A COVID-19 Primer: Virology, Immunology, Evolution, and Epidemic Modeling"

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Presented by Professor Brian T. Cunningham, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of the Center for Genomic Diagnostics at the IGB, for an interactive discussion.

"Digital Resolution Biosensing: New Approaches in Cancer and COVID-19"

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Presented by Professor Amy Wagoner Johnson, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and member of the Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering research theme at the IGB, for an interactive discussion.

"Micromechanical and Microstructural Characterization of Collagenous Tissue for Applications in Pre-term Birth and for Diseased and Damaged Tissue"

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Presented by Professor Brendan Harley, Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and leader of the Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering research theme at the IGB, for an interactive discussion.

"Adapting Commercial Systems to Create Multidimensional Tissue Models"

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Join Professor Madhu Khanna, ACES Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and member of the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), for an interactive discussion.

"Is the Cure to COVID-19 Worse than the Problem? An Economic Perspective"

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