10.00 am Registration and poster set-up

11.00 am Tea & Coffee

11.40 pm New horizons: Life after a PhD
Chaired by Sion Coulman (Cardiff University)

11.40 am Steve Fuller / Varsity Pharmaceuticals

11.55 am Vasiliki Paraskevopoulou / AstraZeneca

12.10 pm Karolina Dziemidowicz / EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship

12.25 pm 'On the sofa': questions to speakers

1.00 pm Light lunch

Short talks from our industrial exhibitors
​2.00 – 3.30 pm
Chaired by Mark Jackman (Astra Zeneca)

Symposium Dinner
7.00 pm Las Iguanas, Deansgate, Manchester. Further details below.
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8.00 am Registration and poster set-up

9.00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks

SESSION 1
​Chaired by Gareth William (University College London) and Rachael Power (RCSI)

9.10 am KEYNOTE: Helena Kelly / Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) / 'Intratumoural drug delivery – development of an injectable hydrogel system' / Profile

9.40 am Beatriz Dias Barbieri / Imperial College London / Helper lipids: impact on immune responses and storage stability of self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) lipid nanoparticle vaccines'

9.55 am Siqi Wang / Queens University Belfast / A subdermal implant for controlled release of dapivirine for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
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10.10 am Marwa Rizk / University College London & Alexandria University (Egypt) / 'Optimization of all-in-one thermo-responsive theranostic mesoporous silica nanoparticles for hepatocellular carcinoma'
10.25 am Tea & Coffee

SESSION 2
Chaired by Ted Weaver (Queen's University Belfast) Jayne Lawrence (University of Manchester)

10.55 am Adelaide Mensah / Ulster University / 'Physicochemical characterisation of advanced hydrogels for oral biofluid sampling for the analysis of epigenetic and inflammatory biomarkers'

11.10 am Sandeep Palvai / University of Leeds / 'Ice-templated hierarchically porous 3D silica nanoparticle assemblies for controlled drug delivery'

11.25 am Eimear Wallace / National University of Ireland Galway & Aurum laboratories / 'Soft robotic drug delivery system controls delivery of VEGF to stimulate neovascularisation at an islet transplantation site'

11.40 am Ramy Said-Elbahr / Ain Shams University (Cairo) & University of Central Lancashire / 'Nebulization-friendly nanoemulsion formulation for device-targeted co-delivery of celecoxib and naringin for treatment of lung cancer'

11.55 am Poster Session 1

​12.45 pm Lunch

​SESSION 3
​Chaired by Dimitrios Lamprou (Queen's University Belfast) and Emmanuel Okwelogu (University of Manchester)

1.45 pm KEYNOTE: Bruno Sarmento / University of Porto / Profile

2.15 pm Muhammad Faris Adrianto / Queens University Belfast / 'Novel photocrosslinked anti-VEGF loaded ocular Implants'

2.30 pm Arathyram Ramachandra Kurup Sasikala / University of Birmingham / 'Ultrasound responsive piezomagnetic carbon nanoneedles for non-invasive blood brain barrier penetration and anticancer drug delivery system for glioblastoma treatment'
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​2.45 pm Ahmad Bahlool / Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland & Trinity College Dublin / 'Development of inhalable retinoic acid-loaded nanoparticles as targeted host-directed immunotherapy for tuberculosis'

3.00 pm Poster Session 2 & Tea & Coffee

SESSION 4
Chaired by Sarah Gordon (University of Birmingham) and Maria Marlow (University of Nottingham)

3.50 pm SoapBox session (1 minute on any topic!)

​4.35 pm Closing Remarks and Prizes