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TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2010

 

18.00-20.00

Registration

20.00-21.00

Welcoming reception

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010

 

08.00-09.15

Registration

 

09.15-09.30

Opening of the Symposium by Johan Engbersen

University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

 

OPENING LECTURE

09.30-10.30

Ligand-targeted therapeutic and imaging agents for cancer and inflammatory diseases

Philip Low, Purdue University, W Lafayette, USA

 

NOVEL CONCEPTS IN DRUG DELIVERY

10.30-11.00

Delivery and sensing using gold nanoparticles

Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

11.00-11.30

COFFEE

11.30-12.00

Engineering polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery

Samir Mitragotri, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

12.00-12.30

Photochemical internalization: A novel drug delivery system

Pål Selbo, University Hospital Oslo, Norway

12.30-14.00

LUNCH

 

TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY

14.00-14.30

Intracellular signal-responsive artificial gene regulator for cell-specific gene delivery

Yoshiki Katayama, Kyushu University, Japan

14.30-15.00

Alternative delivery of nanobodies®

Hilde Revets, Ablynx NV, Ghent, Belgium

15.00-15.30

Molecular determinants for cell-type selective delivery of cell-penetrating peptides

Roland Brock, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

15.30-16.00

TEA

 

NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY

16.00-16.30

A ‘multilayered’ approach to the surface-mediated delivery of DNA and siRNA: from degradable cationic polymers to ‘charge-shifting’ polyelectrolytes

David Lynn, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

16.30-17.00

A novel method for characterizing the aggregation of nucleic acid containing nanoparticles in whole blood

Kevin Braeckmans, University of Ghent, Belgium

18.00-19.30

DINNER

19.30-21.30

POSTERSESSION

21.30-22.00

Presentation of the POSTER AWARDS

Prof.dr. Jan Feijen, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010

 

NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY (cont.)

09.00-09.30

Exploiting nanoconjugate for systemic adenovirus-mediated cancer gene therapy

Chae-Ok Yun, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

09.30-10.00

Induction of therapeutic gene silencing in leukocyte-implicated diseases by targeted and stabilized nanoparticles

Dan Peer, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10.00-10.30

Delivery of small RNAs

Raymond Schiffelers, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

10.30-11.00

COFFEE

 

PARTICULATE VACCINE DELIVERY

11.00-11.30

Cell-mediated delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles for vaccines and immunotherapy

Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

11.30-12.00

How administration routes affect immune responses: a cross-sectional evaluation of particulate vaccine delivery systems

Pål Johansen, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland

12.00-12.30

Nasal vaccine delivery: the antigen, the adjuvant and the particle

Wim Jiskoot, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

12.30-14.00

LUNCH

 

OPHTHALMIC DRUG DELIVERY

14.00-14.30

Posterior segment ocular drug delivery; barriers and prospects

Arto Urtti, University of Helsinki, Finland

14.30-15.00

Ophthalmic drug delivery by contact lenses loaded with nanoparticles

Anuj Chauhan, University of Florida, Gainesville,USA

15.00-15.30

Overcoming barriers to episcleral drug delivery to the retina

Karl G. Csaky, Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, USA

15.30-16.00

TEA

 

IMAGE-GUIDED AND TRIGGERED DRUG RELEASE

16.00-16.30

Ultrasound-triggered release of materials entrapped in microbubble-

liposome constructs: a tool for targeted drug delivery

Alexander Klibanov, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

16.30-17.00

Ultrasound triggered drug delivery using polymer-shelled microbubbles

Marcel Böhmer, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

19.30-23.00

SYMPOSIUM BANQUET

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010

 

IMAGE-GUIDED AND TRIGGERED DRUG RELEASE (cont.)

09.00-09.30

Ultrasound triggered, image guided, local drug delivery

Chrit Moonen, CNRS / Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France

 

BIOACTIVE DELIVERY FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING

09.30-10.00

Amino acid containing degradable polymers and their potential in controlled

drug delivery

Aylvin Dias, DSM Biomedical, Geleen, The Netherlands

10.00-10.30

Designed poly(ethylene glycol)/poly(D,L-lactide)-based hydrogel structures

prepared by stereolithography

Dirk Grijpma, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

10.30-11.00

COFFEE

11.00-11.30

Emerging controlled release approaches for bone tissue engineering

Antonios Mikos, Rice University, Houston, USA

11.30-12.00

Engineering artificial extracellular matrices for stem cell biology and tissue engineering

Matthias Lutolf, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

12.00-12.15

Closing of the symposium

12.30-14.00

LUNCH

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