November 27 - December 4, 2020
November 27 - December 4, 2020 (Virtual)
2020 MRS Spring/Fall Meeting

Symposium S.SM08-Emerging Strategies and Applications in Drug Delivery

Controlled drug delivery systems have been successful in introducing new formulations for better use of existing drugs and novel delivery of biologicals. The initial success in the field, however, reached a plateau, and the progress over the last decade has been slow. The limitations of established delivery technologies have hampered progress in multiple areas as the potential of exciting new materials, insights into disease mechanism, and approaches to cell therapy are not fully realized due to their delivery challenges. This symposium will focus on the innovation and advances in the materials and devices for drug delivery and their emerging applications in immunotherapy, gene editing and other drug delivery areas.

Topics will include:

  • Design, synthesis, and characterization of novel biomaterials for drug delivery
  • Bioinspired materials for drug delivery
  • Micro/Nano devices for drug delivery
  • Drug delivery for immunotherapy and gene editing

Invited Speakers:

  • YunFeng Lu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Xiaoyuan Chen (National Institutes of Health, USA)
  • Zhen Gu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Guosong Hong (Stanford University, USA)
  • Debra Auguste (Northeastern University, USA)
  • Jianjun Cheng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Eric Chiou (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Honggang Cui (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
  • Claire Hur (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
  • Christopher Jewell (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Zhuang Liu (Soochow University, China)
  • Niren Murthy (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • Anna Schwendeman (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Mark W. Tibbitt (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  • Andrew Wang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
  • Qiaobing Xu (Tufts University, USA)
  • Yoon Yeo (Purdue University, USA)
  • Liangfang Zhang (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Xiaoyun Ding
University of Colorado Boulder
Mechanical Engineering
USA

Yizhou Dong
The Ohio State University
USA

Yan Pang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China

Rong Tong
Virginia Tech
Department of Chemical Engineering
USA

Topics

biological biomaterial biomedical biomimetic (assembly) devices