2022 UKICRS Workshop & Symposium
The UKICRS Symposium is primarily aimed at postgraduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, industrialists and academics working in the fields of pharmaceutical sciences and drug delivery.
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The symposium will offer a wide range of opportunities for both young and established scientists to present their latest research and network with others from academia and industry.
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Dates for 2022 Symposium
Abstract submission deadline |
Friday 22nd April 2022 |
Oral and poster notifications |
Friday 6th May 2022 |
Pre-symposium workshop and dinner |
Thursday 9th June 2022 |
Symposium |
Friday 10th June 2022 |
Symposium booklet
This year, we will not be producing a hard copy Symposium booklet. Instead, all abstracts will be available here on the UKICRS website: Poster Session 2022
Venue
Address
Barnes Wallis Building
Sackville Street Campus
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M1 7JA
UK
Take a virtual tour of the Barnes Wallis building
About the University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities, with outstanding facilities and the widest range of courses. It is a highly respected institution across the globe as a centre of teaching excellence and innovative research. With 25 Nobel prize winners among current and former staff and students, the University has a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries, from splitting the atom to giving the world graphene.
Getting there
By plane
Direct flights into Manchester airport are available from Aberdeen, Belfast City, Belfast International, Cork, Derry, Dublin, Exeter, Inverness, London Heathrow, Shannon, Southampton, . The Barnes Wallis Building is approximately 9 miles (a 25–30 minute taxi ride - approximately £25) from the Airport.
By train
The Barnes Wallis Building is a 5-minute walk from Manchester Piccadilly Station, which offers good connections with the rest of the UK rail network, and a 10 min walk from Oxford Street Station. Find out more at www.thetrainline.com.
Scroll to the bottom of this page for further travel details.
Barnes Wallis Building
Sackville Street Campus
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M1 7JA
UK
Take a virtual tour of the Barnes Wallis building
About the University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities, with outstanding facilities and the widest range of courses. It is a highly respected institution across the globe as a centre of teaching excellence and innovative research. With 25 Nobel prize winners among current and former staff and students, the University has a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries, from splitting the atom to giving the world graphene.
Getting there
By plane
Direct flights into Manchester airport are available from Aberdeen, Belfast City, Belfast International, Cork, Derry, Dublin, Exeter, Inverness, London Heathrow, Shannon, Southampton, . The Barnes Wallis Building is approximately 9 miles (a 25–30 minute taxi ride - approximately £25) from the Airport.
By train
The Barnes Wallis Building is a 5-minute walk from Manchester Piccadilly Station, which offers good connections with the rest of the UK rail network, and a 10 min walk from Oxford Street Station. Find out more at www.thetrainline.com.
Scroll to the bottom of this page for further travel details.
Programme
Thursday 9th June 2022 |
Friday 10th June 2022 |
10.00 am Registration and poster set-up 11.00 am Tea & Coffee New horizons: Life after a PhD Chaired by Sion Coulman (Cardiff University) 11.40 am Steve Fuller / Varsity Pharmaceuticals 11.55 am Vasiliki Paraskevopoulou / AstraZeneca 12.10 pm Karolina Dziemidowicz / EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship 12.25 pm 'On the sofa': questions to speakers 1.00 pm Light lunch Short talks from our industrial exhibitors Chaired by Mark Jackman (Astra Zeneca) 2.00 – 3.30 pm Symposium Dinner 7.00 pm Las Iguanas, Deansgate, Manchester. Further details below. |
8.00 am Registration and poster set-up 9.00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks SESSION 1 Chaired by Gareth William (University College London) and Rachael Power (RCSI) 9.10 am KEYNOTE: Helena Kelly / Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) / 'Intratumoural drug delivery – development of an injectable hydrogel system' / Profile 9.40 am Beatriz Dias Barbieri / Imperial College London / Helper lipids: impact on immune responses and storage stability of self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) lipid nanoparticle vaccines' 9.55 am Siqi Wang / Queens University Belfast / A subdermal implant for controlled release of dapivirine for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) 10.10 am Marwa Rizk / University College London & Alexandria University (Egypt) / 'Optimization of all-in-one thermo-responsive theranostic mesoporous silica nanoparticles for hepatocellular carcinoma' 10.25 am Tea & Coffee SESSION 2 Chaired by Ted Weaver (Queen's University Belfast) Jayne Lawrence (University of Manchester) 10.55 am Adelaide Mensah / Ulster University / 'Physicochemical characterisation of advanced hydrogels for oral biofluid sampling for the analysis of epigenetic and inflammatory biomarkers' 11.10 am Sandeep Palvai / University of Leeds / 'Ice-templated hierarchically porous 3D silica nanoparticle assemblies for controlled drug delivery' 11.25 am Eimear Wallace / National University of Ireland Galway & Aurum laboratories / 'Soft robotic drug delivery system controls delivery of VEGF to stimulate neovascularisation at an islet transplantation site' 11.40 am Ramy Said-Elbahr / Ain Shams University (Cairo) & University of Central Lancashire / 'Nebulization-friendly nanoemulsion formulation for device-targeted co-delivery of celecoxib and naringin for treatment of lung cancer' 11.55 am Poster Session 1 12.45 pm Lunch SESSION 3 Chaired by Dimitrios Lamprou (Queen's University Belfast ) and Emmanuel Okwelogu (University of Manchester) 1.45 pm KEYNOTE: Bruno Sarmento / University of Porto / Profile 2.15 pm Muhammad Faris Adrianto / Queens University Belfast / 'Novel photocrosslinked anti-VEGF loaded ocular Implants' 2.30 pm Arathyram Ramachandra Kurup Sasikala / University of Birmingham / 'Ultrasound responsive piezomagnetic carbon nanoneedles for non-invasive blood brain barrier penetration and anticancer drug delivery system for glioblastoma treatment' 2.45 pm Ahmad Bahlool / Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland & Trinity College Dublin / 'Development of inhalable retinoic acid-loaded nanoparticles as targeted host-directed immunotherapy for tuberculosis' 3.00 pm Poster Session 2 & Tea & Coffee SESSION 4 Chaired by Sarah Gordon (University of Birmingham) and Maria Marlow (University of Nottingham) 3.50 pm Soapbox Session (1 minute on any topic!) 4.35 pm Closing Remarks and Prizes |
Registation fees and online registration
- Postgraduate: £80
- Postdoctoral: £100
- Academic: £125
- Industrial: £200
You can complete online registration for the 2022 UKICRS Symposium here.
Exhibitors – information on exhibitor packages is available here.
Exhibitors – information on exhibitor packages is available here.
Symposium Dinner
All registered delegates and exhibitors are invited to attend the 3-course Symposium dinner, 7.00 pm Thursday 9th June 2022 at Las Iguanas restaurant in Deansgate, Manchester. UKICRS will cover the cost, although you'll pay for your own drinks. The full address of the venue and the menu is provided below.
Las Iguanas
84 Deansgate,
Manchester, M3 2ER
Website
Menu
We'll need to make your meal selection two weeks in advance of the Symposium via this website. We'll keep you posted.
Las Iguanas
84 Deansgate,
Manchester, M3 2ER
Website
Menu
We'll need to make your meal selection two weeks in advance of the Symposium via this website. We'll keep you posted.
Abstract submission
UKICRS is now inviting submission of scientific abstracts for the 2022 Symposium. Deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday 22nd April 2022.
Please submit your abstract(s) using the online submission form.
Poster format
As always, poster presentations will be at the heart of this year’s symposium. Two poster sessions will be held on Friday 10th June 2022. Please format your poster as A0 size, in portrait orientation; the poster boards measure 2.1 m high x 1 m wide.
Industrial Session & Exhibition
A series of short talks by our industrial sponsors will take place at 2.00–3.30 pm Thursday 9th June.
A special exhibitors space – fully resourced with tables and power supply – will be provided during the two-day Symposium. Many exhibitors will use this space to display equipment from their current product range. The exhibitor space will be available for set-up Monday morning from 8am onwards.
Full details of the exhibitor packages and costs are available here.
Exhibitors – please use the following shipping address: Barnes Wallis Building (see above). Please address packages/deliveries to 'UKICRS Symposium'. Also, if shipping multiple items, we recommend that the items are numbered, e.g. ‘1 of 3’.
A special exhibitors space – fully resourced with tables and power supply – will be provided during the two-day Symposium. Many exhibitors will use this space to display equipment from their current product range. The exhibitor space will be available for set-up Monday morning from 8am onwards.
Full details of the exhibitor packages and costs are available here.
Exhibitors – please use the following shipping address: Barnes Wallis Building (see above). Please address packages/deliveries to 'UKICRS Symposium'. Also, if shipping multiple items, we recommend that the items are numbered, e.g. ‘1 of 3’.
Sponsor the event
UKICRS is a registered UK charity, and relies upon sponsorship from its various partners to help cover the costs of the annual Symposium. If you or your company would like to sponsor the event, please email Mark Jackman. Mark is our UKICRS committee member with responsibility for sponsorship.
Getting to Manchester
If you plan to travel by air to The University of Manchester, our nearest airport is Manchester Airport. Manchester Airport is one of the largest and busiest in the country. It is located about 10 miles (16 km) south of the city centre, about 30 minutes from the University. Most major airlines fly to and from Manchester. For more information please visit the Manchester Airport website.
The airport has a number of transport links to the city:
Train – The airport's three terminals are linked directly to the city centre by a fast, frequent 24-hour train link to both Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations.
Taxi – A taxi from the airport to the University will cost approximately £25.
Bus – Local buses also run to the Oxford Road area of the campus.
The airport has a number of transport links to the city:
Train – The airport's three terminals are linked directly to the city centre by a fast, frequent 24-hour train link to both Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations.
Taxi – A taxi from the airport to the University will cost approximately £25.
Bus – Local buses also run to the Oxford Road area of the campus.
Manchester is very well connected to the wider UK rail network. The University is located close to both Piccadilly main line station (about two and a half hours from London) and Oxford Road train station, with Victoria train station a little further away. Please see this travel link on the University website for further details.
For transport in and around Manchester city centre, we recommend use of the traditional black cabs or Uber.
There are various ways to travel to The University of Manchester by coach, bus or tram. Full details are available on the this University webpage.
Further information on getting around Manchester is available at 'Visit Manchester', the official visitor website.
Accommodation in Manchester
Delegates are responsible for booking and purchasing their own accommodation. Suggestions for accommodation close to the Symposium venue are provided below. Cheaper guesthouses and B&Bs are also available in the vicinity (see Booking.com, and use the map facility to search for accommodation close to Manchester M1 7JA).
ibis budget Manchester Centre Pollard Street |
Motel One Manchester-Piccadilly |
ibis Manchester Centre Princess Street |
2 Pollard Street, Manchester, M4 7DB, UK |
34 London Road, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2PF, UK |
Charles Street / Princess street, Manchester, M1 7DG, UK |
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