Distinguished guest speakers will include

Dr. Christine Allen
Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Associate Vice-President & Vice-Provost, Strategic Initiatives
University of Toronto
Scientific Director & CEO, NanoMedicines Innovation Network
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Controlled Release

Dr. James M. Anderson
Distinguished University Professor
Departments of Pathology, Macromolecular Science, and Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

Dr. You Han Bae
Distinguished Professor
Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Utah

Dr. Young Ro Byun
Professor, Department of Pharmacy
Seoul National University

Dr. Helen Cho
Vice President
Director of Research & Development Center
Samyang Biopharmaceuticals

Dr. Tejal Desai
Professor, Bioengineering
Chair, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Jan Feijen
Professor of Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials
University of Twente

Dr. Jinming Gao
Elaine Dewey Sammons Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research, in Honor of Eugene P. Frenkel, M.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. David Grainger
Distinguished Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Utah

Dr. Shreya Goel
Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Utah

Dr. Hideyoshi Harashima
Professor, Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy
Hokkaido University

Dr. Wim Hennink
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Utrect University 

Dr. Byeongmoon Jeong
Professor
Chemistry and Nanoscience
Ewha Womans University

Dr. Alexander Kabanov
Director, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery
Mescal Swain Ferguson Distinguished Professor, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery
Adjunct Professor, UNC Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Kazunori Kataoka
Director General, Innovation Center of NanoMed
Professor Emeritus, Department of Bioengineering
University of Tokyo

Dr. Jindřich (Henry) Kopeček
Distinguished Professor
Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Utah

Dr. Akihiko Kikuchi
Professor
Faculty of Advanced Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Technology
Toyko University of Science

Dr. Yong Hee Kim
Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Hanyang University

Dr. Glen Kwon
Jens T. Carstensen Professor
School of Pharmacy
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dr. Ick Chan Kwon
Principal Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Korean Institute of Technology
Affiliate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington

Dr. Twan Lammers
Professor of Medicine
RWTH Aachen University

Dr. Doo Sung Lee
Moonhaeng Endowed Chair and Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University

Dr. Yue Lu
Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Utah

Dr. Ram Mahato
Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Nebraska

Dr. Tony Mikos
Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Director of the Center for Engineering Complex Tissues;
Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering & J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering
Rice University

Dr. Yu-Kyoung Oh
Dean, College of Pharmacy and Professor of Pharmaceutics
Seoul National University

Dr. Teruo Okano
Director, Center for Advanced Biomedical Science
Professor, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science
Tokyo Women’s Medical University
Distinguished Adjunct Professor
Director, Cell Sheet Tissue Engineering Center
University of Utah

Dr. Kidong Park
Professor
Ajou University

Dr. Nicholas Peppas
Professor and Director of the Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine
Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering
University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Christopher Porter
Professor and Director
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Monash University 

Dr. Suzie Pun
Washington Research Foundation Professor of Bioengineering
Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington

Dr. Patrick Stayton
Distinguished Career Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Director, Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute

Dr. Yoon Yeo
Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy and Biomedical Engineering
Associate Department Head, Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
Purdue University 

Dr. Chae-Ok Yun
Professor of Bioengineering
Hanyang University

Dr. Zhiyuan Zhong
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Biomedical Polymers Laboratory
Soochow University