Interdisciplinary Workshop on Health Futures

In the context of the Health Futures initiative, the Faculty of Health and WIN are pleased to welcome researchers, start-ups and local med-tech industry to a joint interdisciplinary workshop on health futures.

In the workshop, there will be presentations from the project leads of the funded WIN-CBB-IIT Joint Seed Funding.

This event takes place on Thursday, March 27, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Toby Jenkins Applied Health Research building. It will be followed by a networking lunch, a poster session, and a tour of the facility.

Program Details

Time	Item	Speaker(s)
10:00 - 10:10 AM	Opening Remarks	Hassan Baaj, Lili Liu, Sushanta Mitra
10:00 - 10:15 AM	Introduction of Centre for Community, Clinical and Applied Research Excellence (CCCARE)	Steven L. Fischer
Presentation of WIN-CBB-IIT-KGP Seed Funding Program on Health Technologies and Knowledge Mobilization
10:15 – 10:30 AM	Presentation of Funded Project titled “Validating bone mineral density using a single exposure dual-energy x-ray system in upper-extremity fractures: a new quantitative method for point of-care diagnostics”	Nikolas Knowles, Karim Karim
10:30 – 10:55 AM	"Designing Real-Time Emissions Monitoring Sensors to Mitigate Household Pollution and Enhance Indoor Air Quality in India" "Developing low-cost Methane Sensors”	Anindya Sen Eihab Abdel Rahman
10:55 - 11: 10 AM	Presentation of Funded Project titled “A Multiplexed Imaging Platform for 3D-Printed Live Tissue Models”	Jung-Ho Yu
Lightning Presentation
11:10 – 11:20 AM	“Aptamers for biomedical diagnosis and targeted drug delivery”	Juewen Liu
11:20 – 11:30 AM	“Closed-loop Control of Vancomycin Treatment in vivo”	Phoebe Li
11:30 – 11:40 AM	“Microneedle-based Aptalyzer for Minimally Invasive and Real time Therapeutic Drug Monitoring”	Fatemeh Keyvani
11:40 AM - 11:50 PM	“Investigating Metabolic Dynamics During Cancer Progression”	Shadi Vandvajdi
11:50 – 12:45 PM	Networking Lunch & Poster Session	Fatemeh Keyvani, Jonathan Ying, Li Yan Wong
12:45 - 1:30 PM	Facility Tour	Steve Fischer
1:30 PM	End of Event