Symposium SM6-Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications

Understanding the interactions between materials and the host immune systems lays the foundation for biomaterial design. Significant progress has been made in the field in the past few years, ranging from developing biomaterials to resist the foreign body response and camouflaging nanoparticles to avoid immune recognition to actively modulating cell phenotypes and inducing antigen-specific immune responses in a highly efficient manner. This symposium will cover a broad topics from fundamental material-immune cell interactions to translational applications of materials in immunotherapy. Symposium attendees with broad science, engineering and biomedical expertise can expect to be exposed to state-of-the-art developments in this fast growing interdisciplinary area.

Topics will include:

Immune response to materials
Materials in controlling macrophage polarization
Fundamental material design for reducing innate immune recognition
Stimulation of humoral and cellular immune responses with materials
Immuno-modulatory materials for inducing antigen-specific tolerance

Invited Speakers:

SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _0 (Kyoto University, Japan)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _1 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _2 (Iowa State University, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _3 (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _4 (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _5 (University of California, Irvine, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _6 (National Institutes of Health, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _7 (University of Washington, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _8 (University of Florida, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _9 (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _10 (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _11 (University of Washington, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _12 (Drexel University, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _13 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _14 (National Institutes of Health, USA)
SM6_Materials in Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design to Translational Applications _15 (University of California, San Diego, USA)