Programme Thursday 6th June
10.00 am Registration (Entrance) and poster set-up (Room 2.40)
11.00 am Tea & coffee (Room 2.60C)
SESSION A
Chaired by Sion Coulman (Cardiff University)
New Horizons: What does the future hold for you, the public and the planet' / The Paul Spencer Lecture theatre (2.60C)
11.40 am Dr Esther Jacobs / Astra Zeneca / 'PhD to big Pharma: What I wish I knew.'
11.55 am Dr Michael Pascoe / Cardiff University / 'From Kernow to Kathmandu: my global health journey'
12.10 pm Dr Ian Lewis / Head of Transformative technologies , BBSRC / 'How did I get here...and how am I back here?'
12.25 pm 'On the sofa': questions to speakers
1.00 pm Light lunch (Room 2.42)
SESSION B
Chaired by Mark Jackman (Astra Zeneca)
2.00–3.30 pm Short talks from our industrial exhibitors
3.30–7.00 pm Enjoying Cardiff
Use your spare time to relax, get ready for the dinner or explore the city of Cardiff...maybe go to look at some of the exhibits in the National Museum (free entry) that were recently featured on the BBC or go for a walk around Bute Park and Cardiff Castle. All of this is 5 mins walk from the Redwood building!
Symposium Dinner
7.00 pm Wahaca Cardiff
www.wahaca.co.uk/location/cardiff/
11.00 am Tea & coffee (Room 2.60C)
SESSION A
Chaired by Sion Coulman (Cardiff University)
New Horizons: What does the future hold for you, the public and the planet' / The Paul Spencer Lecture theatre (2.60C)
11.40 am Dr Esther Jacobs / Astra Zeneca / 'PhD to big Pharma: What I wish I knew.'
11.55 am Dr Michael Pascoe / Cardiff University / 'From Kernow to Kathmandu: my global health journey'
12.10 pm Dr Ian Lewis / Head of Transformative technologies , BBSRC / 'How did I get here...and how am I back here?'
12.25 pm 'On the sofa': questions to speakers
1.00 pm Light lunch (Room 2.42)
SESSION B
Chaired by Mark Jackman (Astra Zeneca)
2.00–3.30 pm Short talks from our industrial exhibitors
3.30–7.00 pm Enjoying Cardiff
Use your spare time to relax, get ready for the dinner or explore the city of Cardiff...maybe go to look at some of the exhibits in the National Museum (free entry) that were recently featured on the BBC or go for a walk around Bute Park and Cardiff Castle. All of this is 5 mins walk from the Redwood building!
Symposium Dinner
7.00 pm Wahaca Cardiff
www.wahaca.co.uk/location/cardiff/
Programme Friday 7th June
8.00 am Registration and poster set-up (Room 2.40)
9.00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks (Room 2.60C)
SESSION 1
Chaired by Gareth Williams & Humera Sarwar
9.10 am KEYNOTE: Dr. Charlotte Lloyd / Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and Proleptic Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry / School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol / 'Pharmaceuticals: the environmental footprint'
9.40 am Benedetta Gualeni / Cardiff University / 'Key challenges in development of a long-acting, discreet, embeddable microneedle product for hormonal contraception'
9.55 am Aikaterini Dedeloudi / Queen's University Belfast / '3D printed biopolymeric scaffolds for post-operative pain alleviation'
10.10 am Cadhan O’Garra / University of Liverpool / 'Fabrication of antibacterial NO releasing cellulose acetate nanofibers for wound healing applications.'
10.25 am Tea & Coffee (Room 2.40)
SESSION 2
Chaired by Sarah Gordon & Purav Shah
10.55 am Robert Cavanagh / University of Nottingham / 'Nanoparticle delivery of synergistic doxorubicin and olaparib combinations for triple negative breast cancer'
11.10 am Jie Tang / Kings College London / 'Exploring hyaluronan nanocapsules as PARP inhibitor delivery systems: in vitro and in vivo studies (SPECT) in healthy mice'
11.25 am Yu Wang / Cardiff University / 'Creating PLGA microspheres with monodisperse size by droplet-based microfluidics'
11.40 am Corinna Schlosser / University College London / 'Towards the development of pulsatile release systems for teriparatide'
11.55 am Poster Session 1 (Room 2.40)
12.45 pm Lunch (Room 2.42)
SESSION 3
Chaired by Katie Ryan & Lewis Dymock
1.45 pm KEYNOTE: Professor Jesus Martinez de la Fuente / University of Zaragoza & CIBER-BBN / 'Nanoactuators for therapy and diagnosis'
2.15 pm Imogen Walker / University of Liverpool / 'Development of inhaled therapeutic polymers for the treatment of respiratory infections'
2.30 pm Roizza So / University of Nottingham / 'Combined biolistic and cell penetrating delivery for an effective and scalable intradermal DNA vaccine'
2.45 pm Elide Zingale / Queen's University Belfast / 'Development of dual drug-loaded hydrogel scaffolds for ocular implantation combining microfluidics and coaxial 3D-printing techniques'
3.00 pm Poster Session 2 / Tea & Coffee (Room 2.40)
SESSION 4
Chaired by Dimitrios Lamprou
3.50 pm Soapbox Session (1 minute on any topic!)
4.35 pm Closing Remarks and Prizes
9.00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks (Room 2.60C)
SESSION 1
Chaired by Gareth Williams & Humera Sarwar
9.10 am KEYNOTE: Dr. Charlotte Lloyd / Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and Proleptic Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry / School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol / 'Pharmaceuticals: the environmental footprint'
9.40 am Benedetta Gualeni / Cardiff University / 'Key challenges in development of a long-acting, discreet, embeddable microneedle product for hormonal contraception'
9.55 am Aikaterini Dedeloudi / Queen's University Belfast / '3D printed biopolymeric scaffolds for post-operative pain alleviation'
10.10 am Cadhan O’Garra / University of Liverpool / 'Fabrication of antibacterial NO releasing cellulose acetate nanofibers for wound healing applications.'
10.25 am Tea & Coffee (Room 2.40)
SESSION 2
Chaired by Sarah Gordon & Purav Shah
10.55 am Robert Cavanagh / University of Nottingham / 'Nanoparticle delivery of synergistic doxorubicin and olaparib combinations for triple negative breast cancer'
11.10 am Jie Tang / Kings College London / 'Exploring hyaluronan nanocapsules as PARP inhibitor delivery systems: in vitro and in vivo studies (SPECT) in healthy mice'
11.25 am Yu Wang / Cardiff University / 'Creating PLGA microspheres with monodisperse size by droplet-based microfluidics'
11.40 am Corinna Schlosser / University College London / 'Towards the development of pulsatile release systems for teriparatide'
11.55 am Poster Session 1 (Room 2.40)
12.45 pm Lunch (Room 2.42)
SESSION 3
Chaired by Katie Ryan & Lewis Dymock
1.45 pm KEYNOTE: Professor Jesus Martinez de la Fuente / University of Zaragoza & CIBER-BBN / 'Nanoactuators for therapy and diagnosis'
2.15 pm Imogen Walker / University of Liverpool / 'Development of inhaled therapeutic polymers for the treatment of respiratory infections'
2.30 pm Roizza So / University of Nottingham / 'Combined biolistic and cell penetrating delivery for an effective and scalable intradermal DNA vaccine'
2.45 pm Elide Zingale / Queen's University Belfast / 'Development of dual drug-loaded hydrogel scaffolds for ocular implantation combining microfluidics and coaxial 3D-printing techniques'
3.00 pm Poster Session 2 / Tea & Coffee (Room 2.40)
SESSION 4
Chaired by Dimitrios Lamprou
3.50 pm Soapbox Session (1 minute on any topic!)
4.35 pm Closing Remarks and Prizes
