Recent Advances in Drug Delivery Systems
 

Conference Agenda

Agenda is subject to change

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Times TBD
Optional Ski Outing (more details coming)
Brighton Ski Resort
6 PM
WELCOME RECEPTION
Granite Ballroom

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

7 AM
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Douglas Ballroom Lobby
8 - 8:15 AM
OPENING SESSION
Erin Rothwell, Vice President for Research
University of Utah
Randall Peterson, Dean, College of Pharmacy | University of Utah
Hamid Ghandehari, Chair, Molecular Pharmaceutics | University of Utah
Douglas Ballroom 
8:15 - 10:15 AM
SESSION I
Moderators: Juliane Nguyen, Claus-Michael Lehr
Douglas Ballroom
8:15 AM
Title TBD
Kam Leong, Columbia University Medical Center
8:45 AM
Biomaterials for Drug Delivery in Women’s Health
Brittany E. Givens, University of Kentucky
9:15 AM
Bioreducible Polymer Nanoparticles for CRISPR-Cas Ribonucleoprotein Delivery
Christopher L. Grigsby, Queen's University, Belfast
9:45 AM
Multipotent Polymer-Enabled Tumor Active Drug Delivery and Clinical Translation
Youqing Shen, Zhejiang University
10:15 - 10:45 AM
COFFEE BREAK
 
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
SESSION II
Moderators: Eun Ji Chung, Alexandros Marios Sofias
Douglas Ballroom
10:45 AM
Title TBD
Theresa M. Reineke, University of Minnesota
11:15 AM
Automation and Active Learning for the Autonomous Design of Drug Formulations
Adam Gormley, Rutgers University
11:45 AM
Computational Approaches for Improving RNA Nanocarriers for Inhalation Therapy
Olivia Merkel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
12:15 - 1:15 PM
LUNCH
 
1:15 - 2:30 PM
SESSION III
Poster Session and Coffee
Granite Ballroom
2:30 - 5 PM
SESSION IV
Moderators: Hagar Labouta, Nobuhiro Nishiyama
Douglas Ballroom
2:30 PM
A Futuristic (or not so?) Approach for Assessing Nanoparticles Immunotoxicity
Marina Dobrovolskaia, Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
3 PM
Controlling Timing and Location in Vaccine Delivery
Darrell J. Irvine, Scripps Research
3:30 PM
Engineering Tolerance: Acetalated Dextran Microparticles in the Generation of B-regs and T-regs
Kristy Ainslie, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
4 PM
Nanomedicine Hitchhiking with Immune Cells in Cancer and Inflammation
Alexandros Marios Sofias, RWTH Aachen University Hospital
4:30 PM
Harnessing possibilities: Extracellular Vesicles as the Upcoming Breakthrough in Treatment Approaches
In-San Kim, Korea Institute Science & Technology

Thursday, February 27, 2025

7 AM
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Douglas Ballroom Lobby
8 - 10 AM
SESSION V
Moderators: Yue Lu, Kam Leong    
Douglas Ballroom
8 AM
Multiscale Engineering of Immune Cells Using Organoids and Nanowires 
Ankur Singh, Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine
8:30 AM
Engineering Extracellular Vesicles as Nanotherapeutics for Cardiovascular Disease
Eun Ji Chung, University of Southern California
9 AM
Lipid Nanoparticle-Based mRNA Delivery for Retinal Therapies
Katrien Remaut, Ghent University
9:30 AM
Sticky Solutions: Probiotics, Velcro, and Zippers in Targeted Therapies
Juliane Nguyen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10 - 10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
 
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
SESSION VI
Moderators: Olivia Merkel, Ronald Siegel
Douglas Ballroom
10:30 AM
Activity Based Nanosensors for Precision Medicine in the Injured Brain
Ester Kwon, University of California San Diego
11 AM
Microfluidic-Captured Patient-Derived Circulating Endothelial Cells Identifies Novel Mediators of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension 
Taslim Al-Hilal, University of Utah
11:30 AM
Using Microfluidics to Drive Innovation in Nanomedicine
Hagar Labouta, University of Toronto
12 PM
Engineering and Controlling Biohybrid and Bioinspired Microrobots for Magnetically Enhanced Drug Delivery
Simone Schuerle, ETH Zürich
12:30 - 1:30 PM
LUNCH
 
1:30 - 2:45 PM
SESSION VII: Poster Session & Coffee
Granite Ballroom
2:45 - 4:45 PM
SESSION VIII
Moderators: Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Mingnan Chen
Douglas Ballroom
2:45 PM
Vascular Drug Delivery: Fortuitous Homing vs Cognizant Targeting
Vladimir R. Muzykantov, University of Pennsylvania
3:15 PM
Building Hybrid Biologics for Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Shawn Owen, University of Utah
3:45 PM
Bioengineering Cell-Based Therapeutics From Benchside to Bedside
Omid Veiseh, Rice University
4:15 PM
Prodrug/Enzyme Intranasal Delivery for Rapid Prevention or Reversal of Seizure Emergency
Ronald A. Siegel, University of Minnesota
7 PM
BANQUET
Granite Ballroom

Friday, February 28, 2025

8 AM
BREAKFAST
 
9 AM - 12 PM
SESSION IX
Moderators: Adam Gormley, Shreya Goel
Douglas Ballroom
9 AM
Drug Delivery Across Biological Barriers to Combat Bacterial Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
Claus-Michael Lehr, Saarland University
9:30 AM
Functional Plasticity in Microbiota-Host Interactions
Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
10 AM
Core-shell Design of Nanomedicine for Targeted Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals
Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology
10:30 AM
Anticipating a New Wave of HPMA-Based Copolymer-drug Conjugates: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in Cancer Therapy
Jiyuan (Jane) Yang, University of Utah
11 AM
Activatable Polymer Nanoprobes and Nanomedicines for Advanced Tumor Surgery or Treatment of Head and Neck and Pancreatic Tumors
Tomás Etrych, Czech Academy of Sciences
11:30 AM
Awards for Posters and Presentations
12 PM
Closing Remarks
12:15 PM
LUNCH