PROGRAM 12th ESCDD |
TUESDAY 3 APRIL 2012 |
18.00-19.30 |
Registration |
19.00-22.00 |
Buffet dinner and welcoming reception |
WEDNESDAY 4 APRIL 2012 |
08.00-09.00 |
Registration |
09.00-09.10 |
Opening of the Symposium |
Opening Lecture |
09.10-10.00 |
Building complex tissues
Clemens van Blitterswijk, University of Twente, Netherlands |
Nucleic Acid Delivery |
10.00-10.30 |
Precise sequence-defined multifunctional polymeric carriers for DNA and RNA therapy
Ernst Wagner, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany |
10.30-11.00 |
Polymeric nucleic acid carriers: current issues and novel design approaches
You Han Bae, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA |
11.00-11.30 |
COFFEE |
11.30-12.00 |
Mechanistic studies of nanoparticle-mediated gene delivery
Marjo Yliperttula, University of Helsinki, Finland |
12.00-12.30 |
Key determinants of adenovirus mediated gene delivery and strategies to manipulate tropism
Andrew H. Baker, University of Glasgow, UK |
12.30-14.00 |
LUNCH |
Ultrasound Mediated Drug Delivery |
14.00-14.15 |
US mediated drug delivery – an overview of the EU FP7 project Sonodrugs
Charles F. Sio, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
14.15-14.30 |
Drug Painting Cancer Non Invasively with MRI guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Brush: Clinical Perspectives
Bradford Wood, National Cancer Institute & NIH Clinical Center National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA |
15.00-15.30 |
Materials and nanocarriers for US mediated drug delivery
Ine Lentacker, Ghent Univ, Ghent, Belgium |
15.30-16.00 |
TEA |
16.00-16.30 |
Ultrasound-mediated drug and gene delivery by pressure-sensitive nanocarriers
Klaus Tiemann, Isar Herz Zentrum, Munich, Germany |
16.30-17.00 |
Ultrasound-mediated drug delivery by temperature-sensitive nanocarriers under image guidance.
Holger Gruell, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology/ Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands |
18.00-19.30 |
DINNER |
19.30-21.30 |
POSTER SESSION |
21.30-22.00 |
Presentation of the POSTER AWARDS |
THURSDAY 5 APRIL 2012 |
Protein delivery/ Particulate Vaccine Delivery |
09.00-09.30 |
Colloidal systems for protein delivery
Paolo Caliceti, University of Padua, Italy |
09.30-10.00 |
Antigen-expressing immunostimulatory liposomes: a synthetic biology approach to vaccination
Enrico Mastrobattista, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
10.00-10.30 |
Formulation of vaccines – how does their bio-distribution influence immune responses
Yvonne Perry, Aston University, Birmingham, UK |
10.30-11.00 |
COFFEE |
General / Industrial Drug Delivery Research |
11.00-11.40 |
Doctor Kolff, artist in heart and kidneys
Herman Broers, Kolff Foundation, The Netherlands |
11.40-12.10 |
Improving the translation of nanomedicines from academia to industry
Mike Eaton, UCB Pharma/UCB Celltech Slough, UK |
12.10-12.40 |
Investigating the relationships between nanomaterial hazard and physicochemical properties
Helinor Johnston, Edinburgh Napier University, UK |
12.40-14.00 |
LUNCH |
Novel Concepts in Controlled Drug Delivery |
14.00-14.30 |
Real time imaging of drug release
Doron Shabat, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
14.30-15.00 |
Delivery of DNA and RNA by cationic cyclodextrin polyrotaxanes
Gerhard Wenz, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany |
15.00-15.30 |
Polymer conjugates as nano-sized therapeutics
Maria Vicent, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain |
15.30-16.00 |
TEA |
Targeted Drug Delivery |
16.00-16.30 |
Nano-carriers for targeted drug delivery: issues of stability versus drug release
Zhiyuan Zhong, Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China |
16.30-17.00 |
Enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect for selective targeting of anticancer nanomedicine; are we there yet?
Khaled Greish, Otago University, New Zealand |
19.30-22.00 |
SYMPOSIUM BANQUET |
FRIDAY 6 APRIL 2012 |
Targeted Drug Delivery (continued) |
09.00-09.30 |
Drug delivery to the blood brain barrier colloidal carrier systems
Gert Fricker, Univ of Heidelberg, Germany |
09.30-10.00 |
Polymer-drug conjugates designed for solid tumor therapy
Karel Ulbrich, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic |
Bioactive Delivery For Tissue Engineering |
10.00-10.30 |
Multifunctional polymer based carrier systems
Andreas Lendlein, GKSS Forschungszentrum Polymer Res. Inst., Teltow, Germany |
10.30-11.00 |
COFFEE |
11.00-11.30 |
Growth factor delivery by nanoparticles for tissue engineering
Veronique Preat, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium |
11.30-12.00 |
Biomaterials and tissue engineering
John Jansen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
12.00-12.15 |
Closing of the symposium |
12.30-14.00 |
LUNCH |
