Programme Thursday 12th June
From 8.00 am Registration (RCSI Reception, 123 St Stephens Green, entrance via York Street) / Poster and exhibitor set up (Exam Hall, First Floor, 123 St Stephens Green)
The speaker sessions will take place in the O'Flanagan Theatre, on the ground floor to the left as you enter. The Posters, Exhibition and Catering will be in the Exam Hall, on the first floor, access by the main stairs or the lift, turn right on the first floor.
11.00 am Tea & Coffee (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION A
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Helena Kelly (RCSI)
New Horizons: Session Title TBC (O’ Flanagan Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor)
11.40 am Alan Hibbits / LEP Biomedical Ltd/RCSI / 'Managing Pressure in a Glaucoma Start-up'
11.55 am Christina Payne / Bristol Myers Squibb / 'Translating Science into Strategy - A PhD's path into Pharma Project Leadership'
12.10 pm Bal Matharu / HGF Limited / 'From Pills to Patents: A Pharmacist’s route into the world of IP'
12.25 pm '(Not) On the sofa': your chance to pitch questions to the speakers
1.00 pm Light lunch (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION B
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Purav Shah (TRM Ireland)
Short talks from our industrial exhibitors
2.00 pm Introduction
2.05 pm Royal Society of Chemistry
2.15 pm SOTAX Pharma
2.25 pm Quotient Scientific
2.35 pm Particular Sciences Ltd.
2.45 pm Ashland Ireland
2.55 pm Avantor Sciences
3.05 pm Roquette
3.15 pm Mason Technology Ltd.
3.25 pm Close
7.00 pm / Symposium Dinner–The Market Bar and Restaurant, Dublin
https://marketbar.ie
The speaker sessions will take place in the O'Flanagan Theatre, on the ground floor to the left as you enter. The Posters, Exhibition and Catering will be in the Exam Hall, on the first floor, access by the main stairs or the lift, turn right on the first floor.
11.00 am Tea & Coffee (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION A
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Helena Kelly (RCSI)
New Horizons: Session Title TBC (O’ Flanagan Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor)
11.40 am Alan Hibbits / LEP Biomedical Ltd/RCSI / 'Managing Pressure in a Glaucoma Start-up'
11.55 am Christina Payne / Bristol Myers Squibb / 'Translating Science into Strategy - A PhD's path into Pharma Project Leadership'
12.10 pm Bal Matharu / HGF Limited / 'From Pills to Patents: A Pharmacist’s route into the world of IP'
12.25 pm '(Not) On the sofa': your chance to pitch questions to the speakers
1.00 pm Light lunch (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION B
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Purav Shah (TRM Ireland)
Short talks from our industrial exhibitors
2.00 pm Introduction
2.05 pm Royal Society of Chemistry
2.15 pm SOTAX Pharma
2.25 pm Quotient Scientific
2.35 pm Particular Sciences Ltd.
2.45 pm Ashland Ireland
2.55 pm Avantor Sciences
3.05 pm Roquette
3.15 pm Mason Technology Ltd.
3.25 pm Close
7.00 pm / Symposium Dinner–The Market Bar and Restaurant, Dublin
https://marketbar.ie
Programme Friday 13th June
From 8.00 am Registration (RCSI Reception, 123 St Stephens Green, entrance via York Street) / Poster and exhibitor set up (Exam Hall, First Floor, 123 St Stephens Green)
9.00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks / Feargal O'Brien / (O’ Flanagan Theatre, ground floor)
SESSION 1
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Sarah Gordon (University of Birmingham) & Chelsea Mullan-Graham (Ulster University)
9.10 am KEYNOTE: Ana Melero / University of Valencia / 'From Surface to Solution: Overcoming Hurdles in Skin Delivery of Large Anti-Inflammatories'
9.40 am Christine Butler / Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland / 'Chrono-tailored drug delivery: Harnessing circadian rhythms in microneedle-mediated nanoparticle delivery'
9.55 am Colm O’Reilly / University of Oxford / 'Feasibility of ultrasound cavitation agent mediated gastrointestinal drug delivery'
10.10 am Beiyu Zhang / University of Nottingham / 'Cell penetrating peptide based gene delivery system targeting amyloid precursor protein for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease'
10.25 am Tea & Coffee (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION 2
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Katie Ryan (UCC) & Lewis Dymock (University of Strathclyde)
10.55 am Jack Murray / University College Cork / 'Mathematical modelling of receiver-mediated flux enhancement in hollow fibre membrane drug permeability studies'
11.10 am Fangyuan Zhang / University College London / 'Electrosprayed dry powder inhaler (DPI) formulations of bevacizumab for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)'
11.25 am Vlad-Nicolae Lesutan / Queen’s University Belfast / 'Assessing the potential of 3D-Printing for the development of rapid-releasing solid-oral dosage forms'
11.40 am Tia Gibson / King’s College London / 'Addressing the PEG problem in nanomedicine: Optimising the biodistribution and pharmacokinetics of polysarcosine-based star dendrimer drug delivery systems by PET/CT'
11.55 am Poster Session 1 (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
12.45 pm Lunch (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION 3
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Karl Malcolm (Queen's University Belfast) & Soumya Menon (RCSI)
1.45 pm KEYNOTE: Brendan Griffin / University College Cork / 'Microbiota triggered colonic drug delivery: translating from bench to bowel'
2.15 pm Sandeep Karki / University College Dublin / 'Design of a bilayer film for buccal administration of a GLP-1 receptor agonist peptide for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus'
2.30 pm Nuruddin Mahadik / Robert Gordon University / 'Development, characterisation and neuroprotective effects of novel polymer-drug conjugate nano-polyplex: working towards a multi-target treatment for neurodegenerative diseases'
2.45 pm Almudena Moreno Borrallo / Trinity College Dublin / 'pH-responsive polymersomes: precision drug co-delivery against glioblastoma'
3.00 pm Poster Session 2 / Tea & Coffee (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION 4
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Dimitrios Lamprou (Queen's University Belfast)
3.50 pm Soapbox Session (1 minute on any topic!) / Sign up here
4.35 pm Closing Remarks and Prizes
9.00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks / Feargal O'Brien / (O’ Flanagan Theatre, ground floor)
SESSION 1
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Sarah Gordon (University of Birmingham) & Chelsea Mullan-Graham (Ulster University)
9.10 am KEYNOTE: Ana Melero / University of Valencia / 'From Surface to Solution: Overcoming Hurdles in Skin Delivery of Large Anti-Inflammatories'
9.40 am Christine Butler / Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland / 'Chrono-tailored drug delivery: Harnessing circadian rhythms in microneedle-mediated nanoparticle delivery'
9.55 am Colm O’Reilly / University of Oxford / 'Feasibility of ultrasound cavitation agent mediated gastrointestinal drug delivery'
10.10 am Beiyu Zhang / University of Nottingham / 'Cell penetrating peptide based gene delivery system targeting amyloid precursor protein for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease'
10.25 am Tea & Coffee (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION 2
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Katie Ryan (UCC) & Lewis Dymock (University of Strathclyde)
10.55 am Jack Murray / University College Cork / 'Mathematical modelling of receiver-mediated flux enhancement in hollow fibre membrane drug permeability studies'
11.10 am Fangyuan Zhang / University College London / 'Electrosprayed dry powder inhaler (DPI) formulations of bevacizumab for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)'
11.25 am Vlad-Nicolae Lesutan / Queen’s University Belfast / 'Assessing the potential of 3D-Printing for the development of rapid-releasing solid-oral dosage forms'
11.40 am Tia Gibson / King’s College London / 'Addressing the PEG problem in nanomedicine: Optimising the biodistribution and pharmacokinetics of polysarcosine-based star dendrimer drug delivery systems by PET/CT'
11.55 am Poster Session 1 (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
12.45 pm Lunch (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION 3
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Karl Malcolm (Queen's University Belfast) & Soumya Menon (RCSI)
1.45 pm KEYNOTE: Brendan Griffin / University College Cork / 'Microbiota triggered colonic drug delivery: translating from bench to bowel'
2.15 pm Sandeep Karki / University College Dublin / 'Design of a bilayer film for buccal administration of a GLP-1 receptor agonist peptide for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus'
2.30 pm Nuruddin Mahadik / Robert Gordon University / 'Development, characterisation and neuroprotective effects of novel polymer-drug conjugate nano-polyplex: working towards a multi-target treatment for neurodegenerative diseases'
2.45 pm Almudena Moreno Borrallo / Trinity College Dublin / 'pH-responsive polymersomes: precision drug co-delivery against glioblastoma'
3.00 pm Poster Session 2 / Tea & Coffee (Exam Hall, 1st floor)
SESSION 4
O'Flanagan Theatre, ground floor
Chaired by Dimitrios Lamprou (Queen's University Belfast)
3.50 pm Soapbox Session (1 minute on any topic!) / Sign up here
4.35 pm Closing Remarks and Prizes
