Session: Disease Therapies (2009 Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009: 12:30 PM

Cheekwood G (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Description:

This session welcomes contributions addressing the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy of drug delivery systems, stents, or tissue engineered scaffolds. The focus should be on their actual therapeutic potential. Contributions concerning mathematical modeling (or dosimetry) accompanying the above, or suggesting alternative strategies, are also welcome.

Sponsor:

Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science

Chair:

Mariah Hahn
Email: mariah.hahn@chemail.tamu.edu

Co-chairs:

12:30 PM

(253a) In Vivo Evaluation of a Rationally Designed Single Injection Vaccine
Sam N. Rothstein and Steven R. Little

12:50 PM

(253b) Sparse Grid-Based Adaptive Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Personalizing Drug Regimes
Sarah Noble, Maia Donahue, Caitlin Schmitt and Ann Rundell

1:10 PM

(253c) Particle Size and the Efficacy of Vascular –Targeted Drug Carriers: Application in Cardiovascular Diseases
Phapanin Charoenphol and Omolola Eniola-Adefeso

1:30 PM

(253d) "Aquaporin-1: Its Presence, Distribution and Quantification in Arterial Endothelium and How These Change with Chronic Hypertension – with Relevance to Early Atherogenesis"
Jimmy Deon Toussaint, Tieuvi Nguyen, Stewart Russell, Kung-Ming Jan and David Rumschitzki

1:50 PM

Break

2:00 PM

(253e) Combinatorial Insulin Secretion Dynamics of Recombinant Hepatic and Intestinal Cells
Kiranmai Durvasula, Peter Thule and Athanassios Sambanis

2:20 PM

(253f) Perfecting Bacterial Tumor Treatment Using Microfluidic Bioreactors
Bhushan J. Toley, Brett M. Babin and Neil S. Forbes

2:40 PM

(253g) Inactivation of Persister Cells by Low-Level Direct Currents
Mi Zhang, Guifen Luo and Dacheng Ren

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