Programme Thursday
11.00 am Tea & Coffee
New horizons: Life after a PhD
Chaired by Helena Kelly (RCSI)
11.40 am Maria Malamatari / Clinical Pharmacology Assessor at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) / My Career Pathway / LinkedIn
11.55 am Hannah Kerr / Deputy Editor in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) / Starting a career in scientific publishing / LinkedIn
12.10 pm Christine Madla Angeles / Associate Business Manager at UCL Business Ltd. / The science of entrepreneurship / LinkedIn
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 Zizzi Central St. Giles (most delegates) or Chettinad (Industrial exhibitors)
New horizons: Life after a PhD
Chaired by Helena Kelly (RCSI)
11.40 am Maria Malamatari / Clinical Pharmacology Assessor at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) / My Career Pathway / LinkedIn
11.55 am Hannah Kerr / Deputy Editor in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) / Starting a career in scientific publishing / LinkedIn
12.10 pm Christine Madla Angeles / Associate Business Manager at UCL Business Ltd. / The science of entrepreneurship / LinkedIn
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 Zizzi Central St. Giles (most delegates) or Chettinad (Industrial exhibitors)
Programme Friday
8.00 am Registration and poster set-up
9.00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks
SESSION 1
Chaired by Gareth Williams (UCL) and Martyna Stasiewicz (RCSI)
9.10 am KEYNOTE: Bahijja Raimi-Abraham / King's College London / Science beyond the lab. – Empowering scientists and impacting society / Website
9.40 am Fransiska Sekaringtyas / University of Birmingham / Lipid nanocapsules for ceramide delivery induce apoptosis in breast cancer cells
9.55 am Tara McGuire / RCSI / Development of a scaffold-mediated small-interfering RNA delivery system to promote neuronal recovery following spinal cord injury
10.10 am Adia Lopez / University College Cork / Design of novel ionizable amino-polyester lipid nanoparticles for potent tissue-selective mRNA delivery
10.25 am Tea & Coffee
SESSION 2
Chaired by Sion Coulman (Cardiff University) and Rachel Onchuru (University of Strathclyde)
10.55 am Mohamad Anas Al Tahan / Aston University / Solvent evaporation-based method for loading model proteins into mesoporous silica microparticles for oral delivery: Effects of protein size and solvent properties on diffusion and loading efficacy
11.10 am Eugénie Guimier / Queen's University Belfast / Investigation of copper and zinc ions as antibacterial candidates for prevention of capsular contracture
11.25 am Rasha Alshaikh / University College Cork / In vivo ocular pharmacokinetics and toxicity of siponimod in albino rabbits
11.40 am Fiona Smith / University of Nottingham / The rational design of microneedles for the transdermal delivery of insulin for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
11.55 am Poster Session 1
12.45 pm Lunch
SESSION 3
Chaired by Katie Ryan (University of Cork) and Michael Neary (University of Cork)
1.45 pm KEYNOTE: Thomas Rades / University of Copenhagen / Amorphous forms of drugs: the good, the bad and the strange / Profile
2.15 pm Xuehua Lin / RCSI / Evaluation of novel intratumoural oxygen delivery platforms for improving radiotherapy response in hypoxic solid tumours
2.30 pm Eleanor Barlow / University of Liverpool / Solid implants made using solid drug nanoparticles: from proof of concept to in vivo studies
2.45 pm Cerys Evans / University of Sheffield / Incorporation of microneedles into electrospun mucoadhesive patches for improved oral transmucosal drug delivery
3.00 pm Poster Session 2 / Tea & Coffee
SESSION 4
Chaired by Dimitrios Lamprou (Queen's University Belfast) and Ted Weaver (Queen's University Belfast)
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 Williams (UCL) and Martyna Stasiewicz (RCSI)
9.10 am KEYNOTE: Bahijja Raimi-Abraham / King's College London / Science beyond the lab. – Empowering scientists and impacting society / Website
9.40 am Fransiska Sekaringtyas / University of Birmingham / Lipid nanocapsules for ceramide delivery induce apoptosis in breast cancer cells
9.55 am Tara McGuire / RCSI / Development of a scaffold-mediated small-interfering RNA delivery system to promote neuronal recovery following spinal cord injury
10.10 am Adia Lopez / University College Cork / Design of novel ionizable amino-polyester lipid nanoparticles for potent tissue-selective mRNA delivery
10.25 am Tea & Coffee
SESSION 2
Chaired by Sion Coulman (Cardiff University) and Rachel Onchuru (University of Strathclyde)
10.55 am Mohamad Anas Al Tahan / Aston University / Solvent evaporation-based method for loading model proteins into mesoporous silica microparticles for oral delivery: Effects of protein size and solvent properties on diffusion and loading efficacy
11.10 am Eugénie Guimier / Queen's University Belfast / Investigation of copper and zinc ions as antibacterial candidates for prevention of capsular contracture
11.25 am Rasha Alshaikh / University College Cork / In vivo ocular pharmacokinetics and toxicity of siponimod in albino rabbits
11.40 am Fiona Smith / University of Nottingham / The rational design of microneedles for the transdermal delivery of insulin for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
11.55 am Poster Session 1
12.45 pm Lunch
SESSION 3
Chaired by Katie Ryan (University of Cork) and Michael Neary (University of Cork)
1.45 pm KEYNOTE: Thomas Rades / University of Copenhagen / Amorphous forms of drugs: the good, the bad and the strange / Profile
2.15 pm Xuehua Lin / RCSI / Evaluation of novel intratumoural oxygen delivery platforms for improving radiotherapy response in hypoxic solid tumours
2.30 pm Eleanor Barlow / University of Liverpool / Solid implants made using solid drug nanoparticles: from proof of concept to in vivo studies
2.45 pm Cerys Evans / University of Sheffield / Incorporation of microneedles into electrospun mucoadhesive patches for improved oral transmucosal drug delivery
3.00 pm Poster Session 2 / Tea & Coffee
SESSION 4
Chaired by Dimitrios Lamprou (Queen's University Belfast) and Ted Weaver (Queen's University Belfast)
3.50 pm Soapbox Session (1 minute on any topic!)
4.35 pm Closing Remarks and Prizes
