Arrive at the Health Tech Hub (HTH), 150 Dow Street (Entry Tower 2, Floor 3, Suite 322 = Main Room) Manchester, NH 03101. Check-in begins Wednesday,  March 12, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. in HTH Main Room. Questions can be answered by emailing Dr. Martine Behra directly at mbehra@armiusa.org, or events@armiusa.org, or cm2ost@case.edu.

Start End Speaker Title Venue
08:00 08:30   Continental Breakfast HTH main room

Session I: Core Presentations

08:30 08:40 Jen MacDonald
Welcome
HTH Main Room
08:40 08:45 Jean Welter General Introduction HTH Main Room
08:45 9:05 Rodrigo Somoza TRD-1: Cell Fabrication HTH Main Room
9:05 9:25 Jean Welter TRD-2: Sensor Enabled Scaffolds HTH Main Room
9:25 9:35   Coffee Break HTH Main Room
9:35 9:55 Harihara Baskaran TRD-3: Instructive Bioreactor Systems HTH Main Room
9:55 10:15 Martine Behra TRD-4: Integration of a CWRU Optical Oxygen Sensor into the Tissue Biofoundry  HTH Main Room
10:15 10:30 Richard McFarland Training & Dissemination HTH Main Room
10:30 10:45 Stu Jacobson Designing the Tissue Foundry: An engineer point of view HTH Main Room
10:45 11:30 Richard McFarland
& Mike Jacobs

Tour of the “Original” Tissue Foundry & its new addition
400 N. Commercial Street
11:30 11:45
Bo Zhang
Mechanical Flexion and Chemical Factors Promote Chondrocyte Differentiation Enhance ECM Production and Induce Microcavities during In Vitro Culture of hMSCs Aggregates HTH Main Room
11:45 12:00
Hassan Jaberi
Monitoring tissue mechanical properties during
manufacturing using nonlinear acoustics
HTH Main Room
12:00 1:30   Lunch Break with optional 540 lab tour HTH Main Room
12:00 1:30 Tom Bollenbach The other Biofoundry lines 540 N. Commercial Street
1:30 1:45 George Christ Collaborative Project 04 (CP-04, presenting remote) HTH Main room
1:45 2:00 Alex Revzin Collaborative Project 03 (CP-03, presenting remote) HTH Main room
2:00 2:15 Christy Johnson 
Education and Workforce Development (EWD) at ARMI
HTH Main room
2:15 2:30 Jean Welter Administrative update HTH Main room

Session II: Executive session

2:30 4:00   Executive session & Report HTH Glass Room

Session III: Networking (In parallel with Session II)

2:30 4:00   Coffee Break HTH Main Room
2:30 4:00   Networking HTH Main Room

Adjourn

4:00 4:00   Adjourn HTH Main Room

Regulatory

Membership

ARMI

The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) is a member-based, nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the bioeconomy of the United States. The institute’s work will positively impact not only manufacturing but also healthcare and education and workforce development in the country.

Commercialization

The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) is a member-based, nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the bioeconomy of the United States. The institute’s work will positively impact not only manufacturing but also healthcare and education and workforce development in the country.