Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Nucleic Acid Therapeutics
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
"Drug Carriers for RNAi Therapeutics: From Principles to Patients"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"Overview of the Development Program for Voretigene Neparvovec: Challenges and Solutions"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"In Vivo Genome Engineering for Therapeutic and Research Applications"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Drug Delivery for Global Health
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Vaccine Targeting at the Tissue and Cellular Level to Shape Immunity in Cancer and Infectious Disease"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Drug Delivery for Single Injection Vaccines"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Bridging Focal and Immunotherapies"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Delivery of Modified mRNA for Prevention of Infectious Diseases"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Particle Hydrogels for Tissue Repair"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:25 pm
"New Strategies to Address Unmet Medical Needs in Bladder Cancer and Lysosomal Storage Disorders"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm
"Developing Engineered Systems to Explore Fundamental Biological Phenomena and New Applications in Translational Medicine"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm
"Designer Biomaterials for Healing and Regeneration"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"CriPec® Nanomedicines: Building a Clinical Pipeline of Customizable Therapeutics"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 10:00 am
"Synthetic mRNA Nanocarriers for the In Situ Programming of Disease-Specific Immune Cells"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:35 am
"Engineering Nanotechnologies for Immuno-Oncology: Harnessing Cytosolic Immune Surveillance Pathways for Cancer Immunotherapy"
10:35 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:20 am
Coffee Break
11:20 am - 11:45 am
"Nanomaterials for Combination Cancer Immunotherapy"
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:20 pm
"Modulating Immune Function Through Self-Assembly of Immune Signals"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Drug Carriers for Oncology Targets and Oncology Micro-Environmental Factors
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"New Approaches for Treatment of Resistant Lymphomas"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Liposome Encapsulation of Sparingly Soluble Drugs-Nanoprecipitates Encased in a Lipid Bilayer"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Functional Nanoparticles for Oncology"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Therapeutic Antibody-Drug Conjugates, Peptides and Proteins
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Approaches to Improve the Clinical Success of Antibody-Drug Conjugates"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Sweet Stabilizers: Synthesis of Glycopolymers and Mimetics for Therapeutic Protein Delivery"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Developing ADCs Using a Chemoenzymatic Approach"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Antibody-Based Therapeutics for Cancer Therapy: An Early Stage Research to a Clinically Approved Drug"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Selected Poster Presentations
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
"Lipid Nanoparticle Formulations for Synergistic Co-Delivery of siRNA and mRNA"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
"Cancer-Specific and Biologically-Informed (Nano)materials"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
"Structurally Modulated Codelivery of siRNA and Argonaute 2 for Enhanced RNA Interference"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
"Pollen Grains for Oral Vaccination"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
"Using DNA Barcodes to Measure How Thousands of Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs In Vivo "
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
"Injectable Silk Micro-Implants for Localized Immune Modulation of the Breast Tumor Microenvironment"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
"miR-101 Enriched MSC Exosomes Mediate Cardioprotection Through Anti-Fibrotic and Immunomodulatory Effects"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
"Nanoparticle-Mediated RNAi in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Unit PIC Carrier for Cligonucleotides and/or Glucose-Conjugated Nanocarrier for Crossing BBB"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Modular Surface-Enhanced Raman Nanoparticles for High Precision Cancer Imaging"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Design and Implementation of Kinetic Models for the Intracellular Delivery of Bacteriophage"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Nanomedicine for Acute Critical Illness"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Nanostructured Materials for Local Biologic Delivery and Immunomodulation"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Acoustic and Photoacoustic Imaging to Guide and Monitor Drug Delivery"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Drugamer Prodrugs for Infectious Disease and Immune Therapy"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure