June 5-9, 2018
Grande Real Santa Eulalia Hotel
Albufeira, Portugal

Editors:   Millicent Sullivan, PhD, University of Delaware, USA
  Josué Sznitman, Dr. Sc., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  Lola Eniola-Adefeso, PhD, University of Michigan, USA
  Srivatsan Kidambi, PhD, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA

The articles for these proceedings are not peer-reviewed.

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Conference Program, Millicent Sullivan, Josué Sznitman, Lola Eniola-Adefeso, and Srivatsan Kidambi (Abstract)

Microfabrication of elastomeric polymers for organ-on-a-chip engineering and injectable tissues, Milica Radisic (Abstract)

Genetically encoded polymers for drug delivery, Ashutosh Chilkoti (Abstract)

Immobilization of biologic photosensitizer conjugates on nanoparticles to enhance photoimmunotherapy efficacy, Huang-Chiao Huang (Abstract)

Photothermal therapy generates a thermal window of immunogenic cell death in neuroblastoma, Rohan Fernandesrfernandes@gwu.edu, Elizabeth E. Sweeney, and Juliana Cano-Mejia (Abstract)

Synthetic cells synthesize therapeutic proteins inside tumors, Nitzan Krinsky, Maya Kaduri, Assaf Zinger, Janna Shainsky-Roitman, Mor Goldfeder, Itai Benhar, Dov Hershkovitz, and Avi Schroeder (Abstract)

Soft tissue approximation and repair using Laser-activated nanomaterials, Kaushal Rege (Abstract)

New physical and chemical approaches for the cytosolic delivery of bio- therapeutics and nanoparticles into cells, Stefaan De Smedt, K. Braeckmans, Koen Raemdonck, and Ine Lentacker (Abstract)

Histidylated nanovectors for mRNA vaccine formulation: Induction of a strong anti-tumor T cell immunity combined with inflammatory state, Chantal Pichon and Patrick Midoux (Abstract)

Polymer-nanoparticle interactions in supramolecular hydrogels: Enabling long- term antibody delivery, Anthony Yu, Eric A. Appel, and Gillie Agmon (Abstract)

Nanomedicines for the treatment of autoimmune inflammation: engineering design, mechanisms and diseases, Pere Santamaria (Abstract)

Tolerance induction with quantum dots displaying tunable densities of self-antigen, Krystina Hess and Christopher M. Jewell (Abstract)

Chimeric protein and nano-construct for tissue-retained enzyme to locally suppress inflammation, Benjamin Keselowsky, Evelyn Bracho-Sanchez, Gregory A. Hudalla, Sabrina Freeman, Antonietta Restuccia, Margaret M. Fettis, Mark A. Wallet, Fernanda Rocha, and Shannon M. Wallet (Abstract)

Precision polymer architectures and molecular conjugates to enable therapeutics against undruggable targets, Craig Duvall (Abstract)

Sustained release vaccine platforms for enhanced humoral immunity, Gillie Agmon, Emily Gale, Caitlin Maikawa, Anthony Yu, and Eric Appel (Abstract)

Differential uptake of non-fouling particles by primary human neutrophils, William Kelley, Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, and Catherine Fromen (Abstract)

Combinatorial nanoconstructs for biomedical imaging and drug delivery, Paolo Decuzzi, AnnaLisa Palange, Alexander Cook, Miguel Moreira, and Roberto Palomba (Abstract)

Evaluating the impact of perfusion on nanomaterial uptake rates and cytotoxicity using microfluidic in vitro & in silico cell cultures systems, Peter Ertl and Mario Rothbauer (Abstract)

Generation, detection and applications of in vitro oxygen gradients, Nitin Agarwal and Daud H. Khan (Abstract)

A model for the blood-brain barrier and its application in modeling metastasis to the brain, Roger Kamm, Cynthia Hajal, Yoojin Shin, Marco Campisi, and Valeria Chiono (Abstract)

Acoustic enhancement of intracellular delivery for ex vivo therapeutics, Leslie Yeo, Christina Cortez-Jugo, Amgad Rezk, and Shwathy Ramesan (Abstract)

Microphysiological models of human skin and brain vasculature for drug testing, Hasan Abaci (Abstract)

Biomineralized materials as bone ECM mimetics: From understanding molecular mechanisms to new therapeutic interventions, Shyni Varghese (Abstract)

Decoding mechanism that regulate re-epithelialization, Pamela Kreeger and Kristyn S. Masters (Abstract)

Spatial patterning of liver progenitor cell differentiation mediated by cell contractility and notch signaling, Gregory Underhill and Kerim B. Kaylan (Abstract)

Lipid targets in prevention of clotting: Translating in vitro concepts to in vivo application, Michael Holinstat (Abstract)

A biomaterial screening approach to reveal microenvironmental mechanisms of drug resistance, Shelly Peyton (Abstract)

Synthetic building block for hierarchical tissue engineering, Laura De Laporte (Abstract)

Scalable and physiologically relevant microenvironments for human pluripotent stem cell expansion and differentiation, Yuguo Lei, Qiang Li, Haishuang Lin, Ou Wang, Catelyn Evans, Hannah Christian, and Chi Zhang (Abstract)

Mechanisms of enhanced non-viral gene delivery to human mesenchymal stem cells induced by glucocorticoid priming, Angela K. Pannier, Kelly Broad, Albert Nguyen, and Angela K. Pannier (Abstract)

Use of a three-dimensional in vitro alginate hydrogel culture model to direct zonal formation of growth plate cartilage, Angela K. Pannier, Sophia Walsh, Andrew Dudley, and Alek Erickson (Abstract)

Designing and utilizing synthetic extracellular matrices to probe breast cancer cell activation in response to microenvironment cues, April M. Kloxin, Lisa Sawicki, Elisa Ovadia, and Lina Pradhan (Abstract)

Microfluidic acini-on-chip platforms as a tool to study bacterial lung exposure, Josue Sznitman, Arbel Artzy-Schnirman, Shani Elias-Kirma, Patrick Carius, Nicole Schneider-Daum, and Claus-Michael Lehr (Abstract)

Tropoelastin coated PLLA-PLGA scaffolds promote vascular network formation, Ariel A. Szklanny, Shira Landau, Yulia Shandalov, Shulamit Levenberg, Yulia Shandalov, and Anthony S. Weiss (Abstract)

Engineered nanotherapeutics for pulmonary aerosol delivery, Catherine Fromen, Bader Jarai, Zachary Stillman, Anthony Zimmerman, and Jeffery Noble (Abstract)

Modular control of innate immune signaling using self-assembly of immune signals, Christopher Jewell (Abstract)

A microfluidic platform with permeable walls for the analysis of vascular and extravascular mass transport, Hilaria Mollica, Pietro Lenarda, Roberto Palomba, Rui Pereira, and Paolo Decuzzi (Abstract)

Targeted drug delivery in arterial stenosis - role of hemodynamics, Moran Levi, Mark Epstein, and Netanel Korin (Abstract)

Study cellular reponses at the microscale by creating heterogenity in cultured cells using a microfluidic probe, Nadia Enrriquez Casimiro, Gema V. Gonzalez, Aditya Kashyap, Lena V. von Voithenberg, and Govind V. Kaigala (Abstract)

Synthetic cells synthesize therapeutic proteins inside tumors, Nitzan Krinsky, Maya Kaduri, Assaf Zinger, Janna Shainsky-Roitman, Mor Goldfeder, Avi Schroeder, Itai Benhar, and Dov Hershkovitz (Abstract)

Controlled EGFR ligand display for tunable targeted intracellular delivery of cancer suicide enzymes, Rachel Lieser, Wilfred Chen, and Millicent Sullivan (Abstract)

Development of a collagen-based scaffold for sequential delivery of antimicrobial agents and pdgf genes to chronic wounds, Raj Kumar Thapa, Kristi L. Kiick, and Millicent O. Sullivan (Abstract)

Synthesis of zwitterionic-functionalized conjugated nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery applications, Renato Auriemma, Umberto Capasso Palmiero, Davide Moscatelli, and Marco Peviani (Abstract)

True-scale biomimetic multi-generation airway platforms of the human bronchial epithelium for in vitro cytotoxicity screening, Shani Elias-Kirma, Arbel Artzy-Schnirman, Netanel Korin, Rami Fishler, and Josué Sznitman (Abstract)

Polyester-based excipients to formulate lipophilic drugs into nanoparticles directly at the bed of the patient, Umberto Capasso Palmiero, Massimo Morbidelli, Maurizio D’Incalci, and Davide Moscatelli (Abstract)

Adhesion kinetics of functionalized nano-particles under high shear conditions, Yathreb Asaad and Netanel Korin (Abstract)

Tolerance induction with quantum dots displaying tunable densities of self-antigen, Krystina Hess and Christopher M. Jewell (Abstract)

Sustained release vaccine platforms for enhanced humoral immunity, Gillie Agmon, Emily Gale, Caitlin Maikawa, Anthony Yu, and Eric Appel (Abstract)