Cancer

Moderator(s)

• 

  Joscelyn Mejias, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoc Fellow
  Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• 

  Ali Salifu

Presentations:

• 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM PDT

  Nanoparticle Delivery of Immunostimulatory Alu RNA for Cancer Immunotherapy
  

  Presenting Author: Alexander J. Kwiatkowski, PhD – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Kyle M. Garland – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Philip S. Crooke, III – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: John T. Tossberg – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  Co-Author: Thomas M. Aune – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  Primary Investigator: John T. Wilson, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University
• 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM PDT

  Conditionally activatable fusogenic liposomes for precision cancer therapy
  

  Presenting Author: Qian Zhong, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Edward Tan – MIT

  Co-Author: Chayanon Ngambenjawong – MIT

  Co-Author: Ananth Shyamal – MIT

  Co-Author: Heather Fleming – MIT

  Primary Investigator: Sangeeta Bhatia – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM PDT

  The Power of Many? Evaluating the Impact of Avidity on Tumor Targeting
  

  Presenting Author: Anastasia K. Varanko, BS, MS (she/her/hers) – Duke University

  Primary Investigator: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. – Duke University
• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM PDT

  Inducing a double hit to tumors using intratumoral drug delivery with local ablation
  

  Presenting Author: Brian Crouch, PhD (he/him/his) – Duke University

  Co-Author: Erika Chelales – Duke University

  Last Author: Nimmi Ramanujam – Duke University
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Validation of nanoparticle mediated photodynamic therapy for drug resistant patient derived Head and Neck Cancer xenograft models
  

  Presenting Author: Mir Hadi Razeghi Kondelaji, MS (he/him/his) – Medical College of Wisconsin

  Primary Investigator: Amit Joshi – Medical College of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Joseph Zenga (he/him/his) – Medical College of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Heather Himburg (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Anne Frei (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Christopher Hansen – Medical College of Wisconsin
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  Niclosamide Nanoformulations Sensitize Pancreatic Cancer to Gemcitabine by Inhibiting HIF-1α
  

  Presenting Author: Brianna White (she/her/hers) – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Venugopal Gunda – University of Missouri

  Co-Author: Susheel Nethi – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Nagabhishek Sirpu Natesh – University of Missouri

  Co-Author: Adam Mullis – Tufts University

  Co-Author: Christian Lorson – University of Missouri

  Co-Author: Mariaelena Roman Sotelo – Creighton University

  Co-Author: Jeffrey North – Creighton University

  Co-Author: Chris Destache – Creighton University

  Co-Author: Balaji Narasimhan – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Surinder Batra – University of Nebraska Medical Center

  Last Author: Surya Mallapragada – Iowa State University

  Primary Investigator: Satyanarayana Rachagani – University of Missouri