This symposium brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, academia and industry leaders interested in ever-evolving medical device market and the challenges new technologies. Today’s modern medicine and healthcare continues to improve our lives through innovation and invention of better biomedical devices and products as well as health services through intelligent data and emerging technologies. UCI is at the heart of this exciting evolution to improve lives by working in collaboration with local business leaders, regulators and more.

AGENDA
12:30 CHECK IN
1:00 WELCOME TO UCI and CALIT2 – Professor GP LI

1:10 ORANGE COUNTY’S BIOTECH TODAY
1:10 UCI’s Collaboration and Commitment to OC’s Startup Ecosystem
ALVIN VIRAY, Associate Director, Applied Innovation, UC Irvine
1:30 Legal Protections for Medical Devices and Data
CURTIS HUFFMIRE, Partner, Knobbe Martens

1:50 OC STARTUP LANDSCAPE in BIOMEDICAL Device, Data & Technology
1:50 PathForce Dx – Mohit Kale, CTO
2:10 SIM InSights – Rajesh Jha, CEO
2:30 CellEcho – Mohammad Aghaamoo, co-founder
2:50 Matregenix – Sherif Soliman, CEO

3:10 BREAK

3:20 UCI INNOVATION
3:20 ENN (Engineered Neural Network) – new approach to stroke rehabilitation (An Do)
3:35 PICARD (Patient-Initiated Control Analgesic Remote Dispenser) – biometric bottle to monitor
opioid use (Sergio Gago)
3:50 Uterine Suture – a novel technique for treating postpartum hemorrhage (Christine King)
4:05 ARC (Activity Recording CAFE) – a high throughput & automated behavioral phenomic
assessment machine vision (Mahtab Jafari)
4:20 Pedi-Syn – Clinical research device & app to measure oral feeding adaptability in preterm
infants (William Tang)

4:35 OC INNOVATION
4:35 Leading the way in innovation for over 100 years
LINYI XIA, Engineer, Johnson & Johnson
4:50 Healthcare Technology for the digital age
SEAN WHITE, Director of Research & Technology, Medtronic

5:05 NETWORKING RECEPTION

Last Day to Register is February 1, 2024.