2024 NanoDDS Symposium Program September 13-15, 2024
Welcome to the 22nd International Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium! Please see the information below to help you navigate the 2024 NanoDDS Symposium and Rosen Centre.
Awards
Poster Awards 7 poster awards are available for presenters (4 undergraduate/graduate student awards and 3 postdoc/research associate awards).
Trainee Travel Awards
Wi-Fi
Please try to limit yourself to one device connected to the conference Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi Name Convention Wireless
Access Page Click on the “+” next to “HAVE AN ACCESS CODE?”
Wi-Fi Access Code RCHTH
symposium agenda
Friday & Saturday, 1 – 2 PM
Poster Presentations
There will be poster presentations on Friday and Saturday in Junior Ballroom F. Please make sure to stop by both days to view ~80 different posters!
Plenary SPEAKERS
Robert K. Prud’homme, Ph.D.
Professor, Princeton University
Christine Allen, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Toronto
Kristy Ainslie, Ph.D.
Professor, University of North Carolina
Luis A. Brito, Ph.D.
Vice President, Beam Therapeutics
keynote discussion with field experts
Cell Targeting
Andres Garcia, Ph.D.
Professor, Georgia Tech University
Extracellular vesicles
Ke Cheng, Ph.D.
Professor, Columbia, University
Gene therapy
Jiangbing Zhou, Ph.D.
Professor, Yale University
Orthopedic Delivery
Shyni Varghese, Ph.D.
Professor, Duke University
AI
Adam Gormley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Translational Research
Laura Ensign, Ph.D.
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Panel Discussion with NIH program officers
Program Lead, NHLBI
Stephanie M. Davis, Ph.D.
Program Director, NCI
Xing-Jian Lou, Ph.D.
Senior Program Officer, NIAID
Mike Minnicozzi, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, NCATS
Philip J. Brooks, Ph.D.
Health Program Specialist, NINDS
Jessica Forbes, Ph.D.
Meet the Speakers
Read their full bios.
Meet the planning committee
Organizing Committee
Chair
Mei He, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Florida College of Pharmacy
Co-Chair
Jamal Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
co-chair
Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., M.S.
Dean’s Leadership Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
co-chair
Fan Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UF College of Pharmacy
Meeting Advisors
Founder
Alexander Kabanov, Ph.D., Dr.Sci.
Mescal Swain Ferguson Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Event and Financial Advisor
Jubina Bregu
Assistant Director of Business and Operations in the Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steering Committee
Peter W. Swaan, Ph.D., M.Pharm.
Dean and Professor, UF College of Pharmacy
Thomas D. Schmittgen, Ph.D.
Chair Of Pharmaceutics and the V. Ravi Chandran Professor Of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UF College of Pharmacy
Cherie Stabler, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Benjamin G. Keselowsky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Blanka Sharma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Brittany Taylor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Thank You to Our sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
Bronze Sponsor
Ashland
Bronze Sponsor
EMIT Imaging
BRONZE SPONSOR
Inside Therapeutics
Bronze Sponsor
IZON
Bronze Sponsor
UF Department of Biomedical Engineering
Bronze Sponsor
UF Department of Chemical Engineering
Event Sponsor
UF College of Pharmacy
Travel Award Sponsors
Travel Award Sponsor
Particle Matrix
Travel Award Sponsor
Precigenome
Poster Award Sponsors
POSTER AWARD SPONSOR
Captis Diagnostics
Poster AWARD SPONSOR
Elsevier
POSTER AWARD SPONSOR
Helix Biotech, Inc
Poster Award Sponsor