Workshop 7:Living Cell-based Microrobotics for Precise Medical Therapeutics
Organizers: Jong-Oh Park
Timeslot: 14:30 – 17:30
Room: Carré 2L
Abstract:
Biomedical microrobotics has attracted great interest because of the invasiveness and high targeting efficiency. However, the development of microrobots still has problems, such as difficulty in fabrication of high controllability, reliability, and efficiency containing microactuators and microsensors using biodegradable and biocompatible materials, and in meeting the critical requirements related to several theragnostic properties. To overcome the challenges of scaling down robotic and other functional devices, living cells-based microrobots have received significant attentions because of their strong merits: biocompatible, biodegradable, self-sensing, self-actuation, and theragnostic properties. In this workshop, three different specific cells for microrobot will be discussed; Bacterial cell, immune cell, and stem cell. The bacterial cells and immune cells have great potential abilities such as natural sensing the tumor, migrating deep into the tumor, and exerting cytotoxic effects on tumor. Therefore, first two topics will be focused on how to utilize these abilities of the bacterial and immune cells with robot-technology, respectively, in order to realize the localization of therapeutic agents to the tumor lesion and prevention of the spread of therapeutic agents into normal tissues in short time period with high targeting capability. Moreover, autologous cell-based therapy, which uses stem cell, has attracted great interest in tissue regeneration. One of the challenging issues for the stem cell therapy, however, is to deliver the large amounts of the cell to the defect region with minimally invasive way. Hence, the last topic will be discussed with how to actively and precisely deliver the stem cell to the target region by the operator’s control.
Speakers and Agenda:
Introduction to cell-based microrobotics (1 presenter)
- Jong-Oh Park
jop@jnu.ac.kr
Medical Microrobot Center
Chonnam National University, Korea
- Eunpyo Choi
eunpyochoi@jnu.ac.kr
Medical Microrobot Center
Chonnam National University, Korea
Cell-based therapeutics in the view of practical medical clinician (1 presenter)
- Jin-San Zhang
zhang.jinsan@163.com
School of Pamaceutical Science
Center for Precision Medicine
Bio-Med Collaborative Innovation Center
Wenzhou Medical University, China
- John B. Sunwoo
sunwoo@stanford.edu
Department of Otolaryngology
Stanford University School of Medicine
- Yong Yeon Jeong
yjeong@jnu.ac.kr
Department of Radiology
Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Korea
- Sang Young Jeong
syjeong@medi-post.co.kr
MEDIPOST, Korea
Bacterial cell-based microrobot (1 presenter)
- Sylvain Martel
sylvain.martel@polymtl.ca
Department of Computer & Software Engineering
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Min Jun Kim,
mjkim@lyle.smu.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Southern Methodist University, USA
- Sukho Park
shpark12@dgist.ac.kr
Department of Robotics Engineering
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Immune cell-based microrobot (2 presenter)
- Eue-Soon Jang
euesoon@kumoh.ac.kr
Department of Applied Chemistry
Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea
- Munitta Muthana
m.muthana@sheffield.ac.uk
Departments of Infection and Immunity,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield S102RX, UK
- Jiwon Han
judyvet@jnu.ac.kr
Robot Research Initiative, Medical Microrobot Center
Chonnam National University, Korea
- Nguyen Van Du
nvdu81@gmail.com
Robot Research Initiative, Medical Microrobot Center
Chonnam National University, Korea
Stem cell-based microrobotics (2 presenter)
- Ki-Bum Lee
kblee@rutgers.edu
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
- Sarka Kubinova
sarka.k@biomed.cas.cz
Department of Biomaterials and Biophysical Methods
Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
- Tammy L Kalber
t.kalber@ucl.ac.uk
Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging
University College London, UK
- Taeyong Kim
taeyong.kim@biotinc.com
biot inc.
- Gwangjun Go
gwangjun124@jnu.ac.kr
Robot Research Initiative, Medical Microrobot Center
Chonnam National University, Korea
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