Key features of the 2024 CRAFT Symposium

  • DATE: Saturday, October 12, 2024
  • LOCATION: NRC campus, 75 Bd de Mortagne, Boucherville, just outside Montreal
  • 3 keynote lectures given by internationally renowned academics in microfluidics
  • 10 invited podium presentations by trainees, researchers and NRC Research Officers
  • 42 posters showcasing research of trainees from across Canada and NRC Research Officers
  • Tours of the CRAFT NRC Integrated Bio-Devices Fabrication Facility
  • Trainee workshop: CRAFTing Success: Project Management Essentials for Collaborative Microfluidics Research
  • Trainee breakout sessions with keynote speakers and NRC Research Officers

Confirmed Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Thomas Gervais, PhD

Professor, Engineering Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal
Co-Founder and Associate Researcher, Microfluidics for Oncology Core Facility, University of Montreal’s hospital (CHUM)

View Prof. Gervais’s academic profile by clicking here.

Organ-on-a-Chip Keynote Speaker

Samira Musah, PhD

Assistant Professor and Whitehead Scholar, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, Duke University
Director’s Innovator, NIH
Associate Director, Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE)

View Prof. Musah’s academic profile and lab website by clicking here.

Biofabrication Keynote Speaker

Michael Roberts, PhD

Chief Scientist, International Space Station National Laboratory, USA
Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)

Registration Information

Registration will close Sept 27, 2024.

We are near capacity and have opened a wait list. If you’re interested in joining the wait list please email us!

Registration Fees.

Regular (After Aug 1, 2024)
Academic/Government $350
Student/PostDoc $150
Industry $450

Abstract Submission

Abstracts submission is now closed. Presenters will find out in early July if their abstract was a selected for podium presentation or poster. Stay tuned for more soon.

Program (updated on October 10, 2024)

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