Conference Program
 
Drug Carriers In Medicine & Biology

February 24 - March 1, 2002
Crowne Plaza
Ventura, CA

Chairs:
Francis C. Szoka & Vladimir Torchilin

Vice Chairs:
Peter D. Senter & Jindrich Kopecek

Financial support for this GRC has been provided by the following companies:

  • Avanti Polar Lipids
  • ALZA Corporation
  • Bayer Corporation
  • Biodelivery Science International, Inc.
  • Centocor, Inc.
  • Elan
  • Genzyme Pharmaceuticals
  • Hermes Biosciences
  • IMEDD, Inc.
  • Merck
  • NeoPharm, Inc.
  • Seattle Genetics, Inc.

We are grateful for the support which has permitted the organizers to defray the meeting fees of graduate students who have presented posters.


SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 7:30 pmArrival, Registration
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmENDOTHELIUM
Session Chairs: Frank Szoka (UCSF) & Vladimir Torchilin (Northeastern U.)
7:30 pm - 8:20 pmD. McDonald (UCSF)
"Neoangiogenesis"
8:30 pm - 9:20 pmG. Plowman (Exelixis, Inc.)
"Data Mining to identify new targets for drug targeting"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:50 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmDELIVERY INTO BRAIN
Session Chair: Peter Senter (Seattle Genetics)
9:00 am - 9:50 amW. Pardridge (UCLA)
"Blood Brain Barrier"
10:00 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break, Group Photograph
10:40 am - 11:25 amE. Neuwelt (Oregon Health Sciences U.)
"Drug Delivery across the BBB"
11:30 am - 12:20 pmM. Saltzman (Cornell U.)
"Drug Delivery to the CNS"
12:30 pm - 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pm - 7:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmVASCULAR CARRIERS
Session Chair: Henry Kopecek (U. of Utah)
7:30 pm -8:10 pmR. Winslow (Sangart)
"Oxygen-carrying blood substitutes"
8:10 pm - 8:50 pmM. Intaglietta (UC San Diego)
"Non-oxygen blood substitutes"
8:50 pm -9:30 pmVladimir Muzykantov (U. of Pennsylvania)
"Drug Targeting to Pulmonary Endothelium"
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:50 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmNANO & MICRO DEVICES
Session Chairs: Mary Tang (Stanford)
9:00 am - 9:50 pmM. Cima (MIT)
"Microelectric dosage platforms"
9:50 am - 10:30 amM. Prausnitz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Microfabricated needles for drug delivery"
10:30 am - 11:00 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:45 amT. Desai (U. of Illinois)
"Nanofilters for controlled drug delivery"
11:45 am - 12:30 pmA. Zakhidov (Honeywell, International)
"Nanotubules: Implications for Drug Delivery"
12:30 pm - 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pm - 7:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEXPLOITING BIOLOGY
Session Chair: Peter Swaan (Ohio State U.)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pmV. Lee (USC)
"Exploiting biological transporters"
8:10 pm - 8:50 pmL. Simpson (Jefferson Medical College)
"Turning oral poisons into oral vaccines"
8:50 pm - 9:30 pmN. Bodor (IVAX, Inc.)
"Brain Drug Delivery via Redox Carriers"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:50 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCARRIERS
Session Chair: Pamela Trail(Bayer)
9:00 am - 9:50 amP. Constantinides (Dor BioPharma, Inc.)
"Emulsions"
9:50 am - 10:30 amT. Kissel (Phillips U.)
"Novel polymers for microspheres"
10:30 am - 11:00 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:45 amF. Harding (Genencor International)
"Deimmunization of Proteins"
11:45 am - 12:20 pmG. DiVita (CNRS)
"Peptide transduction domains for cytoplasmic delivery of proteins"
12:30 pm - 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
5:30 pmBusiness Meeting to Elect Vice-Chair
6:00 pm - 7:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFROM THE POSTERS
Session Chair: Phil Thorpe (U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Short Presentation from poster presenters
8 - 15 Minute talks
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:50 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmIMAGING
Session Chair: Terry Allen (U. of Alberta)
9:00 am - 9:45 amC. Meares (UC Davis)
"Chelates for imaging"
9:45 am - 10:30 amJ. Babich (Biostream, Inc.)
"Imaging of inflammation/infection"
10:30 am - 11:00 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:45 amV. Koteliansky (Biogen)
"Targeting Atherosclerosis"
11:45 am - 12:30 pmR. Eisenberg (McGill U.)
"Morphology of amphiphilic drug carriers"
12:30 pm - 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmExcursion: Getty Museum
Poster Session II
6:00 pm - 7:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSELF ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS
Session Chair: Ruth Duncan (Cardiff U.)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm D. Ditscher (U. of Pennsylvania)
"Polymersomes"
8:10 pm - 8:50 pmI. Ahmad (Neopharm Inc.)
"Rx for cancer: Unique liposome-based delivery systems"
8:50 pm - 9:30 pmL. Zarif (Biodelivery Science International, Inc.)
"Nanocochleates: a new lipid-based delivery system"

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