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
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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
MDPI
