Programme Thursday
10.00 am Registration and poster set-up
11.00 am Tea & Coffee
11.40 pm 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
2.00 – 3.30 pm
Chaired by Mark Jackman (Astra Zeneca)
Symposium Dinner
7.00 pm Las Iguanas, Deansgate, Manchester. Further details below.
11.00 am Tea & Coffee
11.40 pm 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
2.00 – 3.30 pm
Chaired by Mark Jackman (Astra Zeneca)
Symposium Dinner
7.00 pm Las Iguanas, Deansgate, Manchester. Further details below.
Programme Friday
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
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
