Scientific Program

Besides the dedicated poster session on Tuesday the coffee breaks provide additional opportunities for all participants to present their posters. All posters will be presented on Tuesday in a short lightning talk by the respective presenter.

 

There will be a welcome reception on September 2 at 7 pm followed by dinner.

 

Tuesday Sept. 3

 

9:00
Welcome and introduction

Session Chair: Wolfgang Parak

9:20
Nano-Protein corona and strategies for nanomedicine
Chunying Chen / National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China

10:00
A discovery framework for nanoparticle shape-based adjuvants
Yan Yan / University College Dublin, Ireland

10:40
Flash talks for posters #1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13
Short oral introduction of posters

11:10
Coffee break

11:40
Systemic homing peptides for targeted nanomedicine: discovery and (pre)clinical development
Tambet Teesalu / University of Tartu, Estonia

12:20
A critical role for glassy states biomolecular condensates in nanoscale regulation of biology
Kenneth Dawson / University College Dublin, Ireland

13:00
Lunch

Session Chair: Helena Florindo

14:30
Brain-targeted nanoparticles for treating Parkinson’s disease
Avi Schroeder / Technion, Israel

15:10
Gut hormone stimulation via lipid nanoparticles for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders
Ana Beloqui Garcia / Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

15:50
Flash talks for posters #12, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27
Short oral introduction of posters

16:20
Coffee break

17:00
The use of mRNA epitope delivery by ionizable lipid nanoparticles for the tolerogenic immunotherapy for allergic and autoimmune disease (Online live presentation; this talk will not be broadcasted)
André Nel / UCLA, USA

17:40
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Michael Mitchell / University of Pennsylvania, USA

18:20
POSTER SESSION for all posters with odd numbers

19:30
End of poster session and Dinner

 

 

Wednesday Sept. 4

 

9:00
Welcome

Session Chair: Hélder Santos

9:05
Strategies to promote cancer nanomedicine performance and clinical translation
Twan Lammers / RWTH Aachen University Clinic, Germany

9:45
Engineered nanomedicines to target and reprogram the tumor microenvironment
Jai Prakash / University of Twente, Netherlands

10:25 (last minute change)
Exploring new approaches for surface engineering nanomaterials
Beatriz Pelaz / University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

11:05
Conference photo

11:15
Coffee break

11:45
Cell specific delivery of RNAs using targeted lipid nanoparticles: from vaccines to therapeutic genome editing
Dan Peer / Tel Aviv University, Israel

12:25 (last minute change)
Stimuli-responsive nanotools for controlled drug delivery
Pablo del Pino / University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

13:05
Lunch

14:15
Excursion
Wine hike along the vineyards and chair lift back to the hotel

19:30
Dinner

 

Thursday Sept. 5

 

9:00
Welcome

Session Chair: Twan Lammers

9:05 (last minute change)
Decoding solid tumor microenvironment to revolutionize nano-immunotherapy

Helena Florindo / University of Lisbon, Portugal

9:45
Quantitative Interaction of nano-colloids with cells
Neus Feliu / Fraunhofer IAP-CAN, Germany

10:15
Flash talks for posters #2, 6, 8, 14, 16
Short oral introduction of posters

10:45
Coffee break

11:15 (last minute change)
Nature-inspired nanotechnology for RNA delivery to immune cells
Roy van der Meel / Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

11:55
Experiments towards mapping the protein corona around endocytosed nanoparticles
Wolfgang Parak / University of Hamburg, Germany

12:25
Comparative optimization of polysaccharide-based nanoformulations for cardiac RNAi therapy
Hélder Santos / University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands

12:55
Lunch

Session Chair: Neus Feliu

14:10
Polypept(o)ides in cancer immune therapy
Matthias Barz / Leiden University, Netherlands

14:50
Polypeptide-based nanomedicine unveiling tropism and biological barrier crossing capabilities
Maria Vicent / Príncipe Felipe Research Center, Spain

15:30
Flash talks for posters #18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28
Short oral introduction of posters

16:00
Coffee break

16:30
Nanoparticles in the design of tissue engineering constructs using bottom-up and top-down approaches
João Mano / University of Aveiro, Portugal

17:10
Observations which might inspire drug delivery scientists for guiding bio-therapeutics over biological barriers
Stefaan de Smedt / University Ghent, Belgium

17:50
POSTER SESSION for all posters with even numbers

19:00
Dinner

Posters

#1
The water-soluble fullerenes for pancreatic cancer treatment
Maciej Serda / University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

#2
Fish collagen-based nanocomposite polymeric films: a design approach for antibacterial and hemostatic activity in tissue regeneration
Jayabal Prakash / Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India

#3
In vivo in situ engineered BMSCs promote bone healing through gene silencing
Yang Wu / Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

#4
In situ generating CO gas for destroying bacterial biofilms
Pengzhen Zhuang / Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

#5
Phase-transforming nanodroplets for acoustically enhanced mRNA delivery
Haikun Liu / Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

#6
Platelet-membrane bubbles: Dual functionality ultrasound contrast and precision clot-targeting agents
Mark Vidallon / Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

#7
Composite functional vesicles induce “find-me/eat-me” in macrophages to regulate RA disease
Yu Zhang / Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

#8
The combination of 2D (graphene oxide) immunomodulators and fibrin hydrogels as a neoadjuvant for post-resection glioblastoma
Despoina Despotopoulou / Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain

#9
Enhancing the relaxivity properties of magnetic nanoparticles by rational control of the local magnetic environment
Brindusa Dragoi / Regional Institute of Oncology Iasi, Iasi, Romania

#10
Physiology-inspired multilayer nanofibrous membranes modulating endogenous stem cell recruitment and osteo-differentiation for staged bone regeneration
Yu Chen / Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

#11
Bio-inspired porous microneedles dwelled stem cells for diabetic wound treatment
Lu Fan / Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

#12
Self-healing dynamic hydrogel microparticles with structural color for wound management
Li Wang / Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

#13
Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for antimycobacterial application
Motunrayo Badejo / Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

#14
Self-assembled gold nanoclusters for bio-photonic applications
Furhan Abdul Rezak / Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

#15
Biodegradable polyphosphoester micelles act as both background-free 31P magnetic resonance imaging agents and drug nanocarriers
Olga Koshkina / Phos4nova B.V., Enschede, Netherlands

#16
Chitosan functionalized Mn3O4 nanoparticles counteract ulcerative colitis in mice through modulation of cellular redox state
Susmita Mondal / S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India

#17
Green synthesis and characterization of hyaluronic acid-modified selenium nanoparticles for melanoma therapy
Luigia Serpico / University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, Netherlands

#18
Active targeting of molecularly imprinted polymers to MCF7 breast cancer cells, dual drug delivery and biosensing
Preetha Ganguly / Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

#19
Refining iron supplementation: preparation, optimization & characterization of liposomal delivery systems
Lina Livrinska / Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia

#20
Heterodimeric peptide-based building blocks for nanoparticle functionalization
Julien Draussin / Institut de cancérologie Strasbourg Europe, France

#21
Protein corona mitigates the cytotoxic effects of nanoplastics on SK-BR-3 cells
Siyao Xiao / Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

#22
Designing stealth bio-nano-architectures: Structuring lipid nanoparticles, DNA, and protein corona for in vivo gene delivery
Serena Renzi / Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

#23
DNA condensing agent enhances CAR-T cell transfection efficiency of DNA-loaded lipid nanoparticles
Andrea Pirrottina / Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

#24
Advanced mixing technology for the synthesis of small and stable mRNA-loaded lipid nanoparticles
Annika Brehmer / Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK, Berlin, Germany

#25
“Cytosolic’’ nanoprobes? First replication initiative in nanobioscience
Mustafa ElGharib / Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

#26
Nanotechnology in medicine: promises of intracellular use vs precise localisation of nanomaterials
Nathanne Rost / Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

#27
Development and characterization of plumbagin-loaded thermosensitive injectable hydrogel for diabetic wound healing
Chander Parkash / Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Rajpura, India

#28
The development of a single exposure radical cure antimalarial formulation - the artemether plus WOG19 Sting!
Samuel Uzondu / Federal University of ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil