The Centre for Advanced Therapeutics is delighted to invite you to its 1st annual Symposium for a day event on Friday 18th March. It is going to be a hybrid event, with talks taking place online followed by a face-to-face networking event with drinks at Eastside Bar.
We will have talks from our PhD students, postdocs, and fellows, an industry session with advanced therapeutics start-up companies, featuring MediSieve and Sixfold and a key note address from Prof. Robin Shattock.
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Program |
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09:00-09:10 |
Welcome by organisers Drs Jelle Penders and Claudia Contini |
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09:10-09:30 |
Introduction of the Centre by Professors Eric Alton and Uta Griesenbach |
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09:30-10:45 |
Session 1 – Gene and Cell Therapies Chair: Professor Uta Griesenbach (intor and 6 x 10-min presentations) |
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Dr Robyn Bell |
Regulated expression of lentiviral vectors following administration of an inducing molecule |
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Ms Veneta Todorova |
Drug-based MSPC mobilisation improves cardiac function post myocardial infarction |
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Dr Nora Clarke |
Ex vivo transduced macrophages produce therapeutic levels of secreted protein when transplanted to the lung |
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Dr Renuka Palanicawandar and Dr Sandra Loaiza |
Developing in-house, point-of-care manufactured chimaeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells |
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Dr Claudia Juarez-Molina |
Lentiviral vector/GM-CSF gene therapy for autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis |
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Dr Ana Sergijenko |
Development of molecular assays to determine lentiviral vector mediated transduction efficiency in airway epithelial cells |
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10:45-11:00 |
Coffee/tea break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Session 2 – Industry Session Chair: Dr Vjera Magdalenic-Moussavi (intro and 2 x 20-min presentations and discussion) |
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Presentation from MediSieve |
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Presentation from Sixfold |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00-14:20 |
Session 3 – Non-viral Therapies and Screening Tools Chair: Professor Jane Apperley (into and 7 x 10-min presentations) |
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Mr Colin Pilkington |
Toward the microfluidic generation of higher-order biomimetic nano assemblies |
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Ms Krysia Broda |
Delivery of targeted siRNA encapsulated nanoparticles from hydrogels as a novel therapeutic for trauma-acquired heterotopic ossification |
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Ms Skye Quinn |
Exogenous FGF7 mRNA treatment improves primary human bronchial epithelial cell wound healing |
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Dr Anthony Sinadinos |
Computational tools for airway-image and multidimensional data analysis |
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Mr Robert Strutt |
Droplet interface bilayers as permeability screens in drug discovery |
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Ms Caoimhe Canavan |
Development and optimisation of HEK-293 cell-free systems for high- throughput screening |
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Mr David Stirling |
Unlocking the promise of nucleic acid vaccine |
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Coffee/tea break |
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14:30-15:30 |
Keynote address – RNA Platforms for Advanced Therapeutics Speaker: Professor Robin Shattock |
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16:00 – 18:00 |
In person networking and drinks at Eastside Bar |
All Imperial College staff and students are welcome (please register with your Imperial College email address at the provided Eventbrite link)
For any enquiries/ further details, please email us!