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| Thursday, September 25 | |
| 7:30 - 8:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 8:10 | Welcome by Paul DiCorleto, Ph.D., Chairman, Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic and Chairman, Department of Molecular Medicine, Case School of Medicine |
| Session: Nanoparticle Building Blocks | |
| Session Chair: Alexis Abramson, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University and NorTech's Nano-Network | |
| 8:10 – 8:50 | Keynote Address: Bruce Weisman, Ph.D., Rice University, “Near-infrared Fluorescence of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: a Tool for Developing Medical Applications” |
| 8:50 – 9:15 | Clemens Burda, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, "Use of Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications" |
| 9:15 – 9:40 | Judy Riffle, Ph.D., Virginia Tech, "Properties of Magnetite-Polymer Nanoparticles in Physiological Media" |
| 9:40 – 10:05 | Sara Majetich, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, “Magnetic Nanoparticles for Nanomedicine” |
| 10:05 – 10:25 | Break |
| Session: Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery | |
| Session Chair: Vinod Labhasetwar, Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic | |
| 10:25 – 10:50 | Agata Exner, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, “Nanobubble-nanoparticle Complexes for Imaging and Cancer Treatment” |
| 10:50 – 11:15 | James Lee, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Immunolipopolyplex Nanoparticles of ODN and siRNA for Targeted Cancer Therapy” |
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Vinod Labhasetwar, Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Dennis Discher, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, “Evading Clearance to Enhance Nano-Delivery: Surprises in Nanoscale Shape and Exploitation of a Marker of Self Ligand” |
| 12:05 – 12:30 | Horst von Recum, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, "Electrospun Nanofibers for Controlled Drug Delivery" |
| 12:30 – 2:15 | Lunch and poster session |
| Remarks and Introduction from Jim Basilion, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University | |
| 12:50 - 1:40 | Lunchtime panel: "Nanomedicine start-ups: from research to commercialization" |
| Moderated by Jeff Rosedale, Woodcock Washburn | |
| Robin Mansukhani, Cense Biosciences | |
| Jeff Davidson, Keystone Nano | |
| John Sullivan, Foundation Medical | |
| Session: Nanoparticles for Treatment of Disease | |
| Session Chair: Maciej Zborowski, Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic | |
| 2:15 – 3:00 | Keynote: Quentin Pankhurst, Ph.D., The Royal Institution of Great Britain, “Healthcare Biomagnetics: in vivo and in vitro Sensing, Moving and Heating of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Diagnosis and Therapy” |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Robert Levy, M.D., The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, “The Uniform Magnetic Field Effect Enables Targeting Magnetic Nanoparticles to Stents – Local Delivery and Cell Therapy Studies” |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Pam Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, "Thinking Small: DNA Nanoparticles for Gene Therapy" |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Mark Cooper, M.D., Copernicus Therapeutics, "Therapeutic Applications of DNA Nanoparticles" |
| 4:30 – 5:15 | Closing Keynote: Kevin Rice, Ph.D., University of Iowa, "Nanoparticle Gene Delivery; Rational Design and Biological Testing" |
| 5:30 – 7:30 | Reception Welcome remarks by Pam Davis, M.D., Ph.D, Dean, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University Presentation by Chris Coburn, Executive Director, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Innovations, "Corporate Venturing and Commercialization at the Cleveland Clinic" |
| Friday, September 26 | |
| 7:30 - 8:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 8:25 | Welcome by Stan Gerson, M.D., Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, "Emerging Cancer Research" |
| 8:25 - 8:40 | Piotr Grodzinski, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute |
| Session: Nanoparticles for Imaging of Cancer and other Diseases Session Chair: Pierre Triozzi, M.D., Cleveland Clinic | |
| 8:40 - 9:20 | Keynote Address: Sam Wickline, M.D., Washington School of Medicine, "Nanoemulsions for Molecular Imaging and Targeted Therapeutics" |
| 9:20 - 9:45 | Thomas Budd, M.D., Cleveland Clinic, "Circulating Tumor Cells: Let Me Do More than Count the Ways" |
| 9:45 - 10:10 | Marty Pagel, Ph.D., University of Arizona, "Nanoscale MRI Contrast Agents for Molecular Imaging" |
| 10:10 - 10:35 | Jeff Chalmers, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, "The Use of Magnetic Nanoparticles to Enrich for Rare, Circulating Tumor Cells in Head and Neck Cancer" |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Raju Viswanathan, Tursiop Technologies, "Nanomaterial-based High Grain Coils fro Magnetic Resonance Imaging" |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break |
| Session: Biological Investigation using Nanoparticles Session Chair: Jim Basilion, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University | |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Urs Hafeli, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, "Biocompatibility of Particles for Magnetic Drug Delivery" |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Arfaan Rampersaud, Ph.D., Columbus Nanoworks, "Commercialization of Nanomaterials for Immunomagnetic Cell Separation and Cancer Diagnostics" |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Afshin Dowlati, M.D., Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, "Designing Therapeutic and Proof-of-Principle Clinical Trials of Nanoparticles for Cancer" |
| 12:30 | Closing remarks and iPod nano giveaway (you must be present to win)! |
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Alexis R. Abramson, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, NorTech
Executive Director of the Nano Network
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic
Senior Fellow, NorTech
Executive Director of the Nano Network
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
James Basilion, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Director, NFCR Center for Molecular Imaging at Case
Case Western Reserve University
Vinod Labhasetwar, Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Division of BioMEMS and NanoMedicine
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic
Shuvo Roy, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic