Earl Bakken Lecture Series

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D.

President and CEO
Methodist Hospital Research Institute

Pathway to a Cure

David Kaplan, Ph.D.

Stern Family Endowed Professor of Engineering
Tufts University

Brains, Pains and Tissue Engineering

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D.

Malcolm Gillis University Professor
Rice University

Eliminating Global Health Disparities: The
Essential Role of Bioengineering

Jay Keasling, Ph.D.

Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Engineering Microbes to Solve Global Challenges

Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.

Professor
Harvard University

Reengineering the Tumor Microenvironment to Enhance Cancer Treatment: Bench to Bedside to Biomarkers

Donald Ingber, Ph.D.

Professor
Harvard University

Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Wyss Institute

James Collins, Ph.D.

William F. Warren Distinguished Professor
Boston University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Synthethic Biology

Stephen Oesterle, M.D.

Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology
Medtronic, Inc.

Technology Takes Cost Out of Health Care:Converging materials, biologics, MEMS, IT, and Communication Technologies Into Implantable Medical Devices

Joanna Weitershausen, Ph.D.

Deputy Director Division of Risk Management Operation
FDA

Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D.

The Ultimate Translation of Knowledge into Power

Shu Chien, Ph.D., M.D.

University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine and Director
University of California, San Diego

Biomedical Sciences and Bioengineering in the Far East

David Malakoff

Deputy News Editor
NPR

Who You Gonna Call? Bioengineers, Journalists… & Ghostbusters

Peter Katona, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
George Mason University

The Legacy of the Whitaker Foundation and Prospects for Biomedical Engineering

Mark McClellan, M.D.

Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution

Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.

15th Director
National Institutes of Health