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  • Monday, Jul 14th
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    Opening Ceremony
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Speaker: Avi Schroeder
    General SessionAwards
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    7:30 PM - 7:40 PM EDT
    Distinguished Service Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Claus-Michael Lehr, PhD – HIPS - Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland & Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
    General SessionAwards
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    7:40 PM - 7:55 PM EDT
    Founders Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Samir Mitragotri
    General SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Focus Group Chat & Chew
    FG SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Bioengineering Focus Group Chat & Chew
    Location: 123
    FG SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Gene Delivery and Editing Focus Group Chat & Chew
    Location: 124
    FG SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Immuno Delivery Focus Group Chat & Chew
    Location: 125
    FG SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Nanomedicine and Nanoscale Focus Group Chat & Chew
    Location: 120 B/C
    FG SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Ocular Delivery Focus Group Chat & Chew
    Location: 119 A
    FG SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Oral Delivery Focus Group Chat & Chew
    Location: 119 B
    FG SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Skin and Mucosal Delivery Focus Group Chat & Chew
    Location: 121 B/C
    FG SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    4:30 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
    General Session I: Titans of CRS #1
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Chair: Hannah Zierden, PhD – University of Maryland
    Co-Chair: Alexandros Marios Sofias, PhD (he/him/his) – RWTH Aachen University Hospital
    Panelist: Maria J. Alonso, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Santiago de Compostela
    Panelist: Yvonne Perrie, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Strathclyde
    Panelist: Jindrich Kopecek, DSc (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Panelist: Hamid Ghandehari, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Award Winner: Twan Lammers, PhD, DSc – RWTH Aachen University Clinic
    General SessionAwards
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    4:30 PM - 4:40 PM EDT
    CRS Exceptional Leadership Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Twan Lammers, PhD, DSc – RWTH Aachen University Clinic
    General SessionAwards
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    WIS Networking Reception & Awards
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4 & Foyer
    NetworkingWIS SessionWomen's HealthAwards
    Sponsored By 
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    6:30 PM - 6:40 PM EDT
    Women in Science Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4 & Foyer
    Award Winner: S. Rahima Benhabbour, MSc. PhD (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    NetworkingWIS SessionWomen's HealthAwards
    Sponsored By 
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    6:40 PM - 6:50 PM EDT
    Rising Women in Science Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4 & Foyer
    Award Winner: Hagar Labouta, PhD – University of Toronto
    NetworkingWIS SessionWomen's HealthAwards
    Sponsored By 
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
    Industry Plenary Lecture IV: Rubi Burlage
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Chair: Stephanie Barrett, PhD (she/her/hers) – Merck & Co., Inc.
    Co-Chair: Marianne Ashford, PhD (she/her/hers) – AstraZeneca
    Plenary Speaker: Rubi Burlage
    Invited Speaker: Avi Schroeder
    Award Winner: Arthur Tipton, PhD (he/him/his) – Vulcan Gray
    Plenary SessionAwards
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    12:00 PM - 12:15 PM EDT
    Presidential Spotlight
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Avi Schroeder
    Plenary SessionAwards
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    12:15 PM - 12:25 PM EDT
    Industry Achievement Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Arthur Tipton, PhD (he/him/his) – Vulcan Gray
    Plenary SessionAwards
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
    General Session III: Titans of CRS #2
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Chair: Juliane Nguyen, PhD (she/her/hers) – UNC at Chapel Hill
    Co-Chair: Roy van der Meel, PhD – Eindhoven University of Technology
    Panelist: Tamara Minko, PhD: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD – Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    Panelist: Alexander Kabanov, PhD: FOUNDERS AWARD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Panelist: Maria Kavallaris, PhD (she/her/hers) – Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, University of New South Wales
    Award Winner: Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tel Aviv University
    General SessionAwards
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
    Translational Research Panel: Advancing Discoveries from the Research Bench to the Clinic
    Location: 121 B/C
    Chair: Paolo Decuzzi, PhD – Italian Institute of Technology
    Co-Chair: Maria Teresa Peracchia, PhD – Sanofi
    Panelist: Benjamin Winkeljann, PhD (he/him/his) – Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
    Panelist: Nicholas J. Hunt, BSc, PhD – The University of Sydney
    Panelist: Jeff Hrkach – Advisor & Consultant, Boston (MA)
    Panelist: Brian Schanen, PhD – mRNA Center of Excellence | Sanofi
    Panelist: Hamideh Parhiz – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Industry SessionAwards
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    3:00 PM - 3:10 PM EDT
    Industry Achievement Award Presentation
    Location: 121 B/C
    Award Winner: Maria Teresa Peracchia, PhD – Sanofi
    Industry SessionAwards
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    3:00 PM - 3:10 PM EDT
    Samyang Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tel Aviv University
    General SessionAwards
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
    MERCK GRADS Awards Final
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Chair: Ceren Kimna, PhD (she/her/hers) – Helmholtz Munich
    Co-Chair: Claudia Martins (she/her/hers) – i3S-University of Porto
    Awards
    Sponsored By 
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    11:30 AM - 11:50 AM EDT
    Therapeutic Genome Editing of Gliomas via Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Ribonucleoprotein Delivery
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Finalist: Anna C. Debski, BS – University of Virginia
    Awards
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    11:50 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    Embedding Hyaluronic Acid-Doxorubicin in Hemostatic Paste for the Treatment of Resected Glioblastoma
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Awards
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    12:10 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
    Probing the Role of Lipid Nanoparticle Elasticity on mRNA Delivery to the Placenta
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Finalist: Hannah Safford (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Awards
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    12:30 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Closing Ceremony
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    General SessionAwards
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    1:17 PM - 1:24 PM EDT
    PhD Thesis Award Presentation I
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Anshuman Dasgupta, MSc – RWTH Aachen University
    General SessionAwards
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    1:24 PM - 1:31 PM EDT
    PhD Thesis Award Presentation II
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: David Klein Cerrejon
    General SessionAwards
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    1:31 PM - 1:38 PM EDT
    Kydonieus Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Ana Melero, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Valencia
    General SessionAwards
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    1:38 PM - 1:48 PM EDT
    Young Investigator Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Assaf Zinger, PhD – Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
    General SessionAwards