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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
    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
    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM EDT
    General Session II: Physicians & Editors Insights and Challenges
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Chair: Assaf Zinger, PhD – Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
    General Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    4:30 PM - 4:35 PM EDT
    Member of the Year Award Presentation
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Award Winner: Maria Vivero-Lopez, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Nottingham
    General Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    4:35 PM - 5:15 PM EDT
    CAR-T Therapy. Physicians’ Insights and Challenges
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    General Session Speaker: Saar Gill, MD, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
    General Session Speaker: Alan Herman (he/him/his) – Israel Cancer Research Fund
    General Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    5:15 PM - 6:00 PM EDT
    Inside the Editor’s Mind: Challenges in Drug Delivery and Controlled Release
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    General Session Speaker: Christine Horejs, PhD (she/her/hers) – Nature Reviews Bioengineering
    General Session Speaker: Filipe Almeida, PhD – Nature Biomedical Engineering
    General Session
  • 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 - 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
    10:00 AM - 11:05 AM EDT
    CRS Around the World: Local Chapters
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Chair: Eliana M. Lima, PhD (she/her/hers) – Universidade Federal de Goias
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:00 AM - 10:05 AM EDT
    Opening Remarks
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Becky Chen, PhD – National Tsing Hua University
    Invited Speaker: Yoon Yeo, PhD (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:05 AM - 10:10 AM EDT
    Introduction
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Chair and Speaker: Eliana M. Lima, PhD (she/her/hers) – Universidade Federal de Goias
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:10 AM - 10:16 AM EDT
    Israeli Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Assaf Zinger, PhD – Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:16 AM - 10:22 AM EDT
    South Africa Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Yahya E. Choonara, BPharm, MPharm, PhD (he/him/his) – University of the Witwatersrand
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:22 AM - 10:28 AM EDT
    Korea Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Soyoung Shin, PhD (she/her/hers) – Chung-Ang University
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:28 AM - 10:34 AM EDT
    Italy Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Alessio Malfanti, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Louvain
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:34 AM - 10:40 AM EDT
    Brazilian Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Sebastião A. Mendanha, PhD (he/him/his) – Federal University of Goiás
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:40 AM - 10:46 AM EDT
    Spanish Portuguese Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Juan Aparico Blanco, PhD (he/him/his) – Complutense University of Madrid
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:46 AM - 10:52 AM EDT
    Indian Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Sahadev Shankarappa, MBBS, MPH, PhD – Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:52 AM - 10:58 AM EDT
    Nordic Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Matteo Tollemeto (he/him/his) – Technical University of Denmark
    General Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    10:58 AM - 11:04 AM EDT
    DeChAt Local Chapter
    Location: Terrace Ballroom 3/4
    Invited Speaker: Paola Luciani, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Bern
    General Session
  • 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