297 In Honor of Nicholas Peppas I - 40 Years of Impact at the Frontiers of Science and Engineering

Tuesday, November 15, 2016: 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Continental 8 (Hilton San Francisco Union Square)
Description:
It has been 40 years since Prof. Nicholas Peppas started as a faculty member, and to celebrate an amazing “40 Years of Impact at the Frontiers of Science and Engineering”, this special symposium will have three scientific sessions populated with invited talks by Peppamers and close friends.

Sponsor:
Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division
Co-Sponsor(s):
Biomaterials (08B), Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (22), Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Forum (26)

Chair:
J. Zach Hilt
Email: zach.hilt@uky.edu

Co-chairs:
Anthony Lowman
Email: lowman@rowan.edu

Ali Khademhosseini
Email: alik@rics.bwh.harvard.edu


8:30 AM
(297a) Intro/Welcome I
J. Zach Hilt

8:40 AM
(297b) Injectable Hydrogels for Growth Factor and Stem Cell Delivery in Tissue Engineering
Antonios Mikos

8:55 AM
(297c) Self-Assembling Stimuli-Responsive Multiblock Copolymers: Prof. Nicholas Peppas’ Enduring Influence and Impact
Surya Mallapragada

9:10 AM
(297d) Inspired By Nature: Utilizing Biology to Engineer Materials for Controlled Therapeutic Delivery
Mark E. Byrne

9:25 AM
(297e) The Peppas Factor: Reflections from an Early Career Peppamer
William Liechty

9:40 AM
(297f) Break I

10:00 AM
(297g) Peppamer to Particulate Flow
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis

10:15 AM
(297h) 40 Years of Peppamers and the History of an Infamous Equation
Richard Korsmeyer

10:30 AM
(297i) Regenerative Engineering: Inductive Bone Regeneration
Cato Laurencin
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