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Celebrating 30 Years of Robert Langer's Science  The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials recently hosted the conference Celebrating 30 Years of Robert Langer's Science, held at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge on July 14-16, 2006. This event brought together over 400 associates and alumni of Professor Robert Langer for a stimulating weekend of scientific exchange and social interactions. See the MIT press release or contact Melissa Aranzamendez for more details regarding the event. )) Click to Enlarge
Conference Organizers
Event Sponsors: Corporate Sponsors: Acusphere Alkermes, Inc. ALZA Corporation Amgen Inc. Analysis Group Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Epic Pharmaceuticals) BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. Clarus Ventures Corium Cowen and Company, LLC Domain Associates ENDO Pharmaceuticals Flagship Ventures Genzyme Insert Therapeutics Medtronic MGI PHARMA, Inc. MicroCHIPS Millenium Pharmaceuticals Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. Nagai Foundation Tokyo New Jersey Center for Biomaterials Pabst Patent Group LLP Polaris Venture Partners Sofinnova Ventures TransForm Pharmaceuticals VGX Pharmaceuticals Wyeth Individual Sponsors: Khursheed Anwer LinShu Liu David Marsh Rodney Pearlman Howie Rosen Program Friday, July 14, 2006 4:00 p.m. Registration and check-in 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Reception with food and beverage service  7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Opening Ceremony Chaired by: Amir Nashat, Howard Bernstein Keynote: Kent Bowen, Harvard Business School: Impact of the Langer Lab
Attendees are requested to review a copy of the Harvard Business School "Langer Lab" case study prior to the presentation. (Note: Please download once only). Panel: The Next Thirty Years
9:00 p.m. Reuniting with Old Friends: A dessert and cocktail reception sponsored by Polaris Venture PartnersModerated by: Terrance McGuire, Polaris Venture Partners Panelists: Henry Brem, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Alan Crane, President and CEO of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. David Kessler, Dean of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Saturday, July 15, 2006  8:00 a.m. Breakfast 9:00 a.m. Drug Delivery Chaired by: W. Mark Saltzman, Yale University; Justin Hanes, Johns Hopkins University W. Mark Saltzman, Yale University: Introduction and Overview: Langer's Influence on Drug Delivery
Edith Mathiowitz, Brown University: Polymer Microparticles in Drug Delivery Steve Schwendeman, University of Michigan: Polymer Microparticles for Protein/Antigen Delivery Maria Jose Alonso, University of Santiago de Compostela: Polymer Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery Daniel Pack, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Polymer Nanoparticles in Gene Delivery Justin Hanes, Johns Hopkins University: Micro- and Nanoparticles in Pulmonary Delivery Ronald Siegel, University of Minnesota: Mathematical Modeling in Drug Delivery Mark Prausnitz, Georgia Institute of Technology: Transdermal Delivery: Biophysical Methods Samir Mitragotri, University of California, Santa Barbara: Transdermal Delivery: Chemical Methods Joseph Kost, Ben-Gurion University, Israel: Ultrasound in Drug Delivery and Diagnostics John Santini, MicroCHIPS: MEMS and other "Outside the Box" Ideas in Drug Delivery 12:00 p.m. Lunch  2:00 p.m. Biomaterials Chaired by: Mike Sefton, University of Totonto; Dave Putnam, Cornell University Joachim Kohn, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey: Accelerated Development of Polymeric Biomaterials through Combinatorial and Computational Approaches
Cato Laurencin, University of Virginia: Tissue Engineering of Bone: An 18 Year Perspective Antonios Mikos, Rice University: In Vitro Generation of Extracellular Matrix for Use as a Tissue Engineering Scaffold
Kathryn Uhrich, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey: Designing Novel Biodegradable Polymers: from Polyanhydrides to Polymer Drugs Daniel Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: High-Throughput Approaches to Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Achim Gopferich, University of Regensburg: Degradable Biomaterials as Cell and Drug Carriers
4:00 p.m. Angiogenesis and Enzyme Technology Chaired by: Marsha Moses, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston; Robert Linhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Judah Folkman, Children's Hospital Boston: Angiogenesis as an Organizing Principle in Biology: The Langer Contribution
Alexander Klibanov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Making Material Surfaces Permanently Microbicidal Robert Linhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Enzyme Technology and Heparinase Marsha Moses, Children's Hospital Boston: The Regulation of Angiogenesis: From the Angiogenic Switch Through Tumor Progression 6:00 p.m. Reception & Gala Dinner Masters of Ceremonies: Nicholas Peppas, University of Texas at Austin; Edith Mathiowitz, Brown University Sunday, July 16, 2006  9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Brunch and Poster Session Chaired by: Linda Griffith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Mooney, Harvard University Allan Hoffman, University of Washington: How and When I Got Into Smart Polymers
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Closing RemarksLaura Niklason, Yale University: Arteries (and Other Things) Grown in Jars? Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University: Cardiac Tissue Engineering: The Challenges of Imitating Nature Elazer Edelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Tissue Engineered Endothelium: Vascular and Immune Biology Avi Domb, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Biodegradable Filaments for Blood Vessel Formation in Vivo David Mooney, Harvard University: Synthetic Niches for Cell Transplantation Kam Leong, Duke University: Response of Human Embryonic and Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Nanotopography Shulamit Levenberg, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology: Vascularlization of Engineered Tissues Jennifer Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins University: Tissue Engineering in the Musculoskeletal System: Disease and Repair Linda Griffith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Capturing Liver Tissue Complexity in Vitro  Hotel InformationHyatt Regency Cambridge Overlooking Boston 545 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 (800) 233-1234 (888) 421-1442 |
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