2024 1st Young Scientists Intersociety Webinar CRS YSC meets YSF-ESB and yESMI Agenda

Wednesday, June 12th, 2024

*All times listed in EST

8:40 AM to 9:15 AM Session 1: Welcome, Logistics, and Introduction Chair: Quim Peña (CRS YSC) Twan Lammers (CRS President) Claudia Martins (CRS YSC) Arn Mignon (YSF-ESB) Sophie Stotz (yESMI)
10:15 AM to 10:25 AM BREAK
10:25 AM to 11:25 AM Session 4: Young Scientists short-talks *Chairs: Nikhar Vishuakarma (CRS YSC), Sophie Stotz (yESMI), Paula Soares (YSF-ESB)* Ionic Liquid-Based Drug Delivery Systems for Subcutaneous Administration of High Concentration monoclonal Antibodies Anujan Ramesh School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Evaluation of the Degradation Mechanisms and Release Kinetics for Multi-Compartmentalized Polymeric Micromesh Implants Irene Guerriero Laboratory of Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and System Engineering, University of Genoa Do It Yourself – Charging Implantable Electronic Medical Devices with Your Own Body Herbert Middleton i3S – Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto Impact of Endothelial Cell Abnormalities and Shear Stress on Nanoparticle Responses in a Dynamic Vessel-on-a-Chip Model Yasmin Abdelkader Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto; The Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto Modular Polymeric Micelle Platform for Multimodal Image-Guided Cancer Nanomedicine Alec Wang RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging Innovating Nanomedicine and Cell-Based Drug Delivery for Glioblastoma via Advanced In Vitro Microenvironment Models Andrea Bezze Politecnico di Torino, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; PolitoBIOMed Lab - Biomedical Engineering Lab Antibody-Sensitizer Conjugates for Cancer Immunotherapy Dmytro Kobzev Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ariel University; State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of the NAS of Ukraine

8:40 AM to 9:15 AM

Session 1: Welcome, Logistics, and Introduction

Chair: Quim Peña (CRS YSC)

Twan Lammers (CRS President)

Claudia Martins (CRS YSC)

Arn Mignon (YSF-ESB)

Sophie Stotz (yESMI)

9:15 AM to 9:45 AM

Session 2: Nanomaterials for Therapeutics and Biosensing

Chairs: Claudia Martins (CRS YSC), Patrycja Domalik-Pyzik (YSF-ESB

Professor Molly Stevens

Imperial College London / University of Oxford

30 minutes

9:45 AM to 10:15 AM

Session 3: Immunomodulating and Imageable Nanomedicines for Nucleic Acid-Delivery

Chairs: Eleonora Cavallari (yESMI), Leila Arabi (CRS YSC)

Assistant Professor Roy van der Meel

10:15 AM to 10:25 AM

BREAK

10:25 AM to 11:25 AM

Session 4: Young Scientists short-talks

Chairs: Nikhar Vishuakarma (CRS YSC), Sophie Stotz (yESMI), Paula Soares (YSF-ESB)

Ionic Liquid-Based Drug Delivery Systems for Subcutaneous Administration of High Concentration monoclonal Antibodies

Anujan Ramesh

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Evaluation of the Degradation Mechanisms and Release Kinetics for Multi-Compartmentalized Polymeric Micromesh Implants

Irene Guerriero

Laboratory of Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and System Engineering, University of Genoa

Do It Yourself – Charging Implantable Electronic Medical Devices with Your Own Body

Herbert Middleton

i3S – Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto

Impact of Endothelial Cell Abnormalities and Shear Stress on Nanoparticle Responses in a Dynamic Vessel-on-a-Chip Model

Yasmin Abdelkader

Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto; The Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto

Modular Polymeric Micelle Platform for Multimodal Image-Guided Cancer Nanomedicine

Alec Wang

RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging

Innovating Nanomedicine and Cell-Based Drug Delivery for Glioblastoma via Advanced In Vitro Microenvironment Models

Andrea Bezze

Politecnico di Torino, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; PolitoBIOMed Lab - Biomedical Engineering Lab

Antibody-Sensitizer Conjugates for Cancer Immunotherapy

Dmytro Kobzev

Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ariel University; State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of the NAS of Ukraine

11:25 AM to 11:55 AM Session 5: Biomimetic Materials Engineering for Drug Delivery and Therapeutic Applications Chairs: Paula Soares (YSF-ESB), Juan Aparicio-Blanco (CRS YSC) Assistant Professor Assaf Zinger Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 30 minutes
11:55 AM to 12:10 PM Awards & Closing Remarks Chair: Quim Peña (CRS YSC)
12:10 PM to 12:30 PM Young Scientist Networking Session Chairs: Maria Vivero-Lopez (CRS YSC), Nikhar Vishuakarma (CRS YSC), Arn Mignon (YSF-ESB), Paula Soares (YSF-ESB), Sophie Stotz (yESMI), Eleonora Cavallari (yESMI)

11:25 AM to 11:55 AM

Session 5: Biomimetic Materials Engineering for Drug Delivery and Therapeutic Applications

Chairs: Paula Soares (YSF-ESB), Juan Aparicio-Blanco (CRS YSC)

Assistant Professor Assaf Zinger

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

30 minutes

11:55 AM to 12:10 PM

Awards & Closing Remarks

Chair: Quim Peña (CRS YSC)

12:10 PM to 12:30 PM

Young Scientist Networking Session

Chairs: Maria Vivero-Lopez (CRS YSC), Nikhar Vishuakarma (CRS YSC), Arn Mignon (YSF-ESB), Paula Soares (YSF-ESB), Sophie Stotz (yESMI), Eleonora Cavallari (yESMI)