9th Annual Symposium, BE 2023

With sustained efforts from the faculty and students, the Annual BSSE symposium will be organized on January 19 and 21, 2023. The prime objective of the symposium is to acquaint the students and corporate fraternity worldwide to recent developments in bioengineering, particularly immunoengineering, systems biology, and biomedicine. The symposium will enhance the communication network within the research fraternity and also serve as a platform that provides a glimpse of the technological advances in these research areas in India through a series of plenary talks. The symposium will also conduct an ideathon event with an intent to encourage aspiring innovators in bioengineering.

Program Schedule

Ideathon Competition (Jan 19, 2023)

Entrepreneurship and innovation are the driving forces that will steer the world into a brighter future. Great ideas, when nurtured, can pave the way for spectacular success. IDEATHON facilitates this vision by providing a platform for potential ideas to be translated to solve unmet needs in Indian healthcare system. The broad theme of the ideathon is Translational medicine. Ideas will be multidisciplinary in nature and should address a problem or need. The interactive mentoring session will mainly focus on ideation, innovation and implementation.

Speaker Sessions (Jan 20-21, 2023)

Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue: Biological Sciences Main Auditorium, Ground floor, Biological Sciences Building

Date	Time	Speaker
Jan 20, 2023	9:15 – 9:20 AM	Introduction to the 9th Annual Symposium, BSSE by the chair of the department – Prof. Narendra Dixit
	9:20 – 9:25 AM	Remarks by the dean – Prof. Navakant Bhat
	9:25 – 9:30 AM	Introduction to the Sanjay Kumar Biswas memorial lecture – Dr. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala
	9:30 – 10:30	Dr. Janhavi Raut Director, R&D; Unilever
	10:30 – 10:45	Tea and Coffee Break
	10:45 – 11:35	Prof. Sharmila Bapat NCCS, Pune
	11:40 – 12:00	Thiruvickraman J
	12:00 – 12:20	Abu Bakr Siddiq
	12:20 – 12:40	Paras Jain
	13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
	14:00 – 14:20	Farhan Adam Mukadam
	14:20 – 14:40	Rajesh Thangavel
	14:40 – 15:00	Mahatabb Nundy
	15:00 – 16:00	Poster Session, over high Tea
	16:00 – 16:50	Prof. Udaykumar Ranga JNCASR, Bangalore
	17:00 – 17:50	Prof. Nagasuma Chandra IISc, Bangalore
Jan 21, 2023	10:00 – 10:45	Dr. Vini Gautam IISc, Bangalore
	10:45 – 11:05	Saswat Choudhury
	11:05 – 11:20	Tea and Coffee Break
	11:20 – 12:05	Dr. Nivedita Mitra Siemens Healthineers
	12:05 – 12:25	Shivangi Mishra
	12:25 – 12:45	Sameer Jagirdar
	13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
	14:00 – 14:45	Dr. Lynda Thomas SCTIMST, Trivandrum
	14:45 – 15:05	Rakesh Pradhan
	15:05 – 16:05	Poster Session, over high Tea
	16:05 – 16:25	Joel Joseph
	16:25 – 17:10	Prof. Rahul Roy IISc, Bangalore
	17:15 – 17:30	Closing Ceremony