• Imaging the Addicted Human Brain: from Molecules to Behavior
  Keynote Speaker: Nora Volkow, M.D.
  Director, National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) National Institutes of Health August 31, 2006, 8.00 AM-8.45AM
  
  

Plenary Sessions

• Molecular Imaging
  Plenary Speaker: Michael Phelps, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, Director, Crump Institute of Molecular Imaging, University of California at Los Angeles
  1.00 PM - 1.45 PM, August 31, 2006
  
  

• Functional Tissue Engineering
  Plenary Speaker: Van Mow, Ph.D.
  Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Bioengineering, Director, Liu Ping Laboratory for Functional Tissue Engineering Research, Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
  3.45 PM - 4.30 PM, August 31, 2006
  
  

• Neural Engineering
  Plenary Speaker: John Donoghue, Ph.D., Henry Merritt Wriston Professor and Chairman, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University
  8.00 AM - 8.45 AM, September 1, 2006
  
  

• Nano-Technologies for Biomedical Applications
  Plenary Speaker: Jennifer L. West, Ph.D.
  Isabel C. Cameron Professor and Director, Institute of Biosciences & Bioengineering, Rice University
  1.00 PM - 1.45 PM, September 1, 2006
  
  

• Computational Biology and Bio-Informatics
  Plenary Speaker: Joseph M. Jasinski , PhD, Program Director, Life Sciences, IBM
  8.00 AM - 8.45 AM, September 2, 2006
  
  

• Innovations in Pharmaceutical Industry
  Plenary Speaker: David Goldenberg, Sc.D., M.D., Chairman,
  Immunomedics, Inc.
  1.00 PM - 1.45 PM, September 2, 2006
  
  

• Bio-Counterterrorism Technologies
  Plenary Speaker: Ernest T. Takafuji  , M.D., MPH,, Director, Office of Biodefense Research, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
  8.00 AM - 8.45 AM, September 3, 2006