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Bioelectronics for Pain and Addiction

August 19 – 20, 2021

NIMET is teaming with the MIST Center to co-sponsor an ULTIMATE Symposium, that brings together academic, government, and industrial thought leaders to discuss advancements in bioelectronics for pain and substance use disorder.

More than 25 million Americans suffer from daily chronic pain which can result in an overreliance in the use of opioids for relief from chronic pain despite their poor ability to improve function. This has contributed to a significant and alarming epidemic of opioid overdose deaths and addictions. Innovative scientific solutions to develop alternative treatment options are thus critically needed.

Bioelectronics technologies can play a vital role in both in vitro and in vivo solutions that better recapitulate human pathophysiology of chronic and development of nonadditive therapeutics for treatment of pain.

This symposium, sponsored by the Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology (NIMET) and the NanoBioSensors and Systems at UCF, will feature talks from experts in academia and industry that are at the forefront of this highly interdisciplinary area.

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Invited Speakers​

Alejandro Covalin, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer Spark Biomedical	Meaghan Creed, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator for Creed Lab Washington University in St. Louis
Lee Fisher, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh	Michael Gold, Ph.D. Professor of Neurobiology University of Pittsburgh
Philipp Gutruf, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineer University of Arizona	Colleen Ann Hanlon, Ph.D. Professor, Cancer Biology Wake Forest School of Medicine
Bin He, Ph.D. Trustee Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Neuroscience Institute Carnegie Mellon University	James “J.” Hickman, Ph.D. Chief Scientist Hesperos, Inc.
Lucie A. Low, Ph.D. Scientific Program Manager, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences National Institutes of Health	Jan Müller, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer Maxwell Biosystems
Lawrence Poree, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Director, Neuromodulation Service, Division of Pain Medicine University of California, San Francisco	Ali Rezai, M.D. Director, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute; Associate Dean; John D. Rockefeller IV Tenured Professor in Neuroscience West Virginia University School of Medicine
Jeff Rogers, Ph.D. Global Research Leader for Digital Health IBM	Mary M Torregrossa, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh

 

Agenda

Day 1 – August 19, 2021 –  Bioelectronics for Pain

Day 2 – August 20, 2021 – Bioelectronics for Neuromodulation for Substance-Use Disorder (SUD)

 

Session Chairs

Jack Judy Professor, University of Florida

Swaminathan Rajaramon Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida