9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Welcome & Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m. Keith Dionne, M.S. Technology and Public Policy, 1987 & PhD Chemical Engineering, 1989; CEO Luxa Biotechnology
Accomplishments of Professor Clark Colton
Enzyme Engineering*
9:40 a.m. Bob Langer, ScD 1974, MIT, Institute Professor, MIT
From Nanotechnology to mRNA Vaccines: Overcoming Skepticism and Barriers to New Cancer Treatments and Global Health Solutions
Atherosclerosis
9:55 a.m. Bob Bratzler, PhD 1974, Director, Director, Manistee Therapeutics, Director, Manistee Therapeutics
Atherosclerosis to Migraine: A Biotech Journey in Drug Development
10:10 a.m. Jay Schnitzer, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 1973, M.D., from Harvard, 1973 (and HST, Harvard-MIT joint program)
Director, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research; President, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
A Life in the Hyphen: Tales from a Surgeon-Engineer
10:20 a.m. George Truskey, PhD 1985, MIT
Life as a ChemE in BME
10:40 a.m. — Break
11:00 a.m. Abdul Barakat, MS 1988, PhD 1994, MIT · AXA Professor, École Polytechnique, France
Clark’s Impact on My Academic Career: From Atherosclerosis to Tick Marks on the Inside of Axes
11:15 a.m. Nicholas Peppas
Biological Transport from 1975 to Now
Enzyme Engineering (continued)*
11:25 a.m. Orn Adalsteinsson, MS 1974, PhD 1976, MIT, CEO, ICA
From ATP Synthesis to Immunotherapy: How Clark Colton Redefined the Chemical Engineer
11:35 a.m. Andre Lamotte, ScD 1976, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, LowAlt Technologies AG (Switzerland)
Tribute to Clark Presented via video
11:45 a.m. José Maria Costa Lafarga
My Pilgrimage from Science to Diplomacy (Pre-recorded)
11:55 a.m. Georges Belfort
Friendship, Bioseparations and Tennis
12:00 p.m. — Lunch
1:00 p.m. Kristala Prather, SB 1994, Course X, MIT, Arthur Dehon Little Professor & Department Head, MIT Chemical Engineering
Clark Colton and MIT ChemE
Membrane Processes
1:10 p.m. Andrew Zydney, PhD 1985, MIT, Bayard D. Kunkle Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering
My Journey in Membranes — and a Thank You to Clark
1:25 p.m. Sujatha Karoor
A Journey from Dialysis to Rare Diseases
1:35 p.m. Mike Pomianek
From the Colton Lab to a Life in the Law — Not as Big a Departure as You May Think
Immune Engineering, etc.
1:45 p.m. Martin (Maish) Yarmush, PhD 1984, MIT, Paul and Mary Endowed Chair; Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University; Director, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Mass General Brigham/Harvard Medical School
The Colton Effect: Science, People, and Lasting Influence
Diabetes
1:55 p.m. Robert Hillman, SM 1978, MIT; PhD 2003, ETH-Zurich, Director, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Mass General Brigham/Harvard Medical School
From Modeling Glucose and Insulin Pharmacodynamics to a Career in Drug Delivery, Medical Diagnostics and Drug Development (Presenting online)
2:05 p.m. Keith Dionne
Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
2:10 p.m. — Break
2:25 p.m. Susan Bonner-Weir, Senior Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center / Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Oxygen Demands of Islets in Culture and After Transplantation
2:40 p.m. Robert Johnson
A Time of Rapid Discovery in the Field of Encapsulated Cellular Transplantation
2:50 p.m. Klearchos Papas
The Quest for a Functional Cure for Diabetes: The Colton/MIT Influence
3:05 p.m. — Break
Tumor-Targeted Drugs
3:20 p.m. Kevin Brower, MS CEP 2006, PhD 2011, MIT, Global Head of Purification Development, Sanofi
A Short Walk from Building 66 to Genzyme Center and the Years Thereafter
Stem Cells
3:30 p.m. Daryl Powers, PhD 2007, MIT Chemical Engineering, Director of MS&T, Bristol Myers Squibb
I Left Grad School and Got a Job
3:40 p.m. Jeffry Millman, PhD 2011, MIT Chemical Engineering, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Endocrinology, Washington University School of Medicine
Stem Cell-Derived Islets for Type 1 Diabetes Cell Replacement Therapy
3:50 p.m. Jit Hin Tan, SM CEP 2004, MBA 2013, PhD CEP 2013, MIT, Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives – AI Transformation, CyberArk Software Ltd
Stochastic Gene Expression: My Random Career (So Far)
Concluding Remarks
4:00 p.m. Rena Bizios
Clark Colton and the Biomedical Engineering Program at MIT
4:10 p.m. Clark Colton
Reflections
4:20 p.m. — End of Symposium
The auditorium will remain open until 5:00 p.m.
*Research area of thesis