Session: Disease Models and Therapies (2011 Annual Meeting)

Monday, October 17, 2011: 3:15 PM

L100 F (Minneapolis Convention Center)

Description:

This session welcomes contributions addressing the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy of drug delivery systems, stents, tissue engineered scaffolds, and other disease therapies. The focus should be on actual therapeutic potential. Contributions will span the range of experimental to theoretical / mathematical modeling.

Sponsor:

Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science

Co-Sponsor(s):

Computers in Operations and Information Processing (10C)

Chair:

Omolola Eniola Adefeso
Email: lolaa@umich.edu

Co-Chair:

Matthew J. Lazzara
Email: mlazzara@seas.upenn.edu

3:15 PM

(150a) Engineering the Lymph Node Microenvironment with Controlled Release Polymer Particles for Enhanced Vaccination
Christopher M. Jewell, Sandra C. Bustamante Lopez and Darrell J. Irvine

3:35 PM

(150b) Design and Characterization of Self-Assembling, Peptide-Based Biomaterials As Immunotherapeutics
Amanda Trent, Matthew J. Black, Colleen Olive and Matthew Tirrell

3:55 PM

(150c) siRNA Based Gene Therapy In Alzheimer's Disease
Aparna Chaudhary and Sanjeev Garg

4:15 PM

(150d) Identifying Novel Bacterial Proteases Involved In Enhanced Virulence During Chronic Infection
Logan MacDonald, Justin Nice, Sean O'Keefe and Bryan W. Berger

4:35 PM

Break

4:45 PM

(150e) Interplay of Flow and Oncotically Active Solute Transport Across the Arterial Endothelium: Hydraulic Conductivity Masking and Relevance to Atherogenesis
Shripad D. Joshi, Kung-Ming Jan and David S. Rumschitzki

5:05 PM

(150f) Molecularly Imprinted Polymeric Nanoparticles for Treating Viral Infections - A Synthetic Antibody Approach
Yen Wah Tong and Niranjani Sankarakumar

5:25 PM

(150g) Breast Cancer CSC Display Novel In Vivo Imaging Features, Reminiscent of Development, During Early Tumor Progression
Natesh Parashurama, Neethan Lobo, Michael Clarke and Sanjiv Sam Gambhir

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