ICONAN 2016 – Conference On Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology

SCHEDULE

Detailed program (new!)

The final program of the Conference is now online;

Schedule overview

Schedule overview

  • 8 AM                         
  • 9 AM                         
  • 9:35 AM                         
  • 10:15 AM                         
  • 10:45 AM                         
  • 11:20 AM                         
  • 12 PM                         
  • 1:30 PM                         
  • 3:30 PM                         
  • 4 PM                         
  • 6:30 PM                         

Wednesday, Sept 28

  • Registration
  • Prof. Ick Chan Kwon:
    Theragnostic Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Systems
  • Prof. Claire Wilhelm:
    Magnetic nanoparticles in cell therapies: from combined approaches in cancer treatment to magnetic tissue engineering
  • Break
  • Prof. Rabah Boukherroub:
    Nano-antibiotics: A rational design of functional nanoparticles to combat bacterial infection
  • Prof. Fabian Kießling:
    Considerations on the design of nanoparticles for diagnostic, theranostic and therapeutic purposes
  • Lunch
  • Posters session
        & Sponsors exhibition
  • Break
  • Oral sessions
        & Workshops
  • Afterwork:
    Cruise on the river Seine

Thursday, Sept 29

  • Registration
  • Prof. Kenneth A. Dawson:
    The Drive to Master the Foundation Principles of Nanoscale interactions with living Organisms
  • Prof. Christian Serre:
    Biocompatible Metal Organic Frameworks in Nanomedicine
  • Break
  • Prof. Anne-Marie Caminade:
    Dendrimers as tools towards nanomedicine
  • Prof. Dennis E. Discher:
    From Nano Shape & Self Recognition to Flexibility in Cancer Treatment and Stem Cell Differentiation
  • Lunch
  • Posters session
        & Sponsors exhibition
  • Break
  • Oral sessions
        & Workshops
  • Afterwork:
    Cheese & Wine vs Tapas & Sangria

Friday, Sept 30

  • Registration
  • Prof. Kostas Kostarelos:
    The Curious Case of 1D and 2D Carbon Nanostructure Pharmacology & Toxicology
  • Prof. Philippe Barthélémy :
    Nucleic acid chemistry for nanomedicine
  • Break
  • Prof. Elias Fattal:
    Nanotechnologies for targeted delivery of nucleic acid
  • Prof. Jackie Ying:
    Nanostructured Biomaterials for Medical and Biological Applications
  • Lunch
  • Posters session
        & Sponsors exhibition
  • Break
  • Oral sessions
        & Workshops

The Plenary speeches will be held in the auditorium, all other activities are suspended during those sessions in order to enable all participants to attend. There will be several oral sessions and workshops in parallel during the afternoon on different topics. Those sessions will be held in smaller rooms and the participants can select the ones they want to attend depending on their topics of interest.

The detailed schedule will be published few days after the registration deadline.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops could be presented by the sponsors or by the participants themselves if their abstract is accepted for a workshop presentation.

  SEEC Microscopy: a live and label-free analysis technique in the fields of Materials and Life Sciences. This workshop will be presented by Nicolas Medard (Nanolane), you can check the abstract here.

  Synthesis of amphiphilic hyaluronan containing-phenyl fatty acids for the preparation of polymeric micelles for applications in drug delivery. This workshop will be presented by Dr. Gloria Huerta Huerta-Angeles, you can check the abstract here.

  Different approaches for the formation of synthetic hydrogels based on hybrid physically-chemically cross-linked networks. This workshop will be presented by Dr. Maxime Guillaud, you can check the abstract here.

CONFERENCE AWARDS

The Royal Society of Chemistry is pleased to offer 3 prizes to:

The outstanding ICONAN 2016 abstract. 

This award includes:

  A certificate

  A free online subscription to the Biomaterials Science journal.

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This prize has been awarded to Dr. Malou Henriksen-Lacey from CIC biomaGUNE for the abstract “Thermosensitive nanogels with multiple anti-tumour associated effects

The best ICONAN 2016 student abstract. 

This Award includes:

  A certificate

  A free online subscription to the Molecular Systems Design & Engineering journal.

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This prize has been awarded to Mr. Joshua J Glass from the University of Melbourne for the abstract “Harnessing human blood to examine bio-nano interactions at the cellular level

The best ICONAN 2016 poster presentation. 

This award includes:

  A certificate

  A free online subscription to one of the following journals:

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This prize has been awarded to Dr. Maxime Grillaud from the Eindhoven University of Technology for the abstract “Synthetic hydrogels based on hybrid physically-chemically cross-linked networks