Biomaterials for Drug Delivery I

Monday, November 17, 2008: 3:15 PM
Room 108-A (Pennsylvania Convention Center)

Description:
This session focuses on the design and evaluation of different biomaterials that can be used in drug delivery.


Sponsor:
Biomaterials


Chair:
Efrosini Kokkoli
Email: kokkoli@cems.umn.edu

CoChair:
Norma Alcantar
Email: alcantar@eng.usf.edu


3:35 PM
(135b) Cell Uptake of Morphologically Distinct Polymer Micelles
Takamasa Harada, Karthikan Rajagopal and Dennis E. Discher

4:15 PM
(135d) Fully Bioresorbable Polymeric Vesicles for Therapeutic Applications
Dalia H. Levine, P. Peter Ghoroghchian, Jaclyn Freudenberg, Geng Zhang, Guizhi Li, Kevin P. Davis, Frank Bates, Michael J. Therien, Ramachandran Murali and Daniel A. Hammer

4:55 PM
(135f) Polymer Nanoparticles That Overcome the Mucus Barrier and Their Efficacy In a Mouse Model of Human Lung Cancer
Benjamin C. Tang, Michelle R. Dawson, Samuel K. Lai, Ying-Ying Wang, Ming Yang, Jie Fu, D. Neil Watkins and Justin Hanes
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