Registration will open mid to late November 2024!

This event aims to bring together global leaders and experts in mechanobiology to discuss the latest research findings and envision the future of mechanobiology in enhancing health and advancing medicine. The conference will be run like a shortened version of Gordon conference and will have deep and engaging discussion on mechanobiology; any unpublished work is welcome. The registration fee will be $250 for faculty, research scientists, and postdocs, while students will be charged $100. The conference will be conducted in a dual format, allowing participants to attend both in-person and virtually. Abstract submissions for being selected as short talks and a poster session are welcome. Registration includes breakfast, coffee breaks, and lunch for both days, with a networking reception on the first day featuring appetizers and drinks. For any further questions or concerns, please email coe-conferences@northeastern.edu.

Confirmed Speakers & Panel Discussion Chairs:

Shu Chien, Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego

Dennis Discher, Rober D. Bent Professor, Director of Physical Sciences Oncology Center/Project @ Penn, University of Pennsylvania

Donald Ingber, Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University; Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University

Martin Schwartz, Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology, Yale University

Herbert Levine, University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bioengineering, Northeastern University in Boston

Mary L. Bouxsein, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Jay Humphrey, John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University

Elliot Elson, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,Washington University in St. Louis

Christopher S. Chen, Founding Director, The Biological Design Center; William F. Warren Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Guy Genin, Harold and Kathleen Faught Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Jeffrey Ruberti, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Northeastern University in Boston

C. Ross Ethier, Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. and Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt Chair in Bioengineering, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine

Peter Yingxiao Wang, Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair in Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, University of Southern California

Xuanhe Zhao, Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cheng Zhu, Regents’ Professor, J. Erskine Love Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Pere Roca-Cusachs Soulere, Group Leader, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia; Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain

Kevin Chalut, Group Leader, the Altos Labs Cambridge Institute of Science, United Kingdom

Ming Guo, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kandice Tanner, Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Organizing Committee of the Global Summit on Mechanobiology and Mechanomedicine

Erin Cram, Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for Research College of Science, Northeastern University

Eno Ebong, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Northeastern University

Herbert Levine, University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bioengineering, Northeastern University

Jeffrey Ruberti, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Northeastern University

Sandra Shefelbine, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Bioengineering, Associate Dean of Space and Special Initiatives, College of Engineering, Northeastern University

Ning Wang, Professor of Bioengineering, Director of Institute for Mechanobiology, Northeastern University

Emily Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Neurodevelopment, Northeastern University