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  • Monday, Jul 14th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
    Science Communication Workshop: Sharing Your Research with Impact
    Location: 122 B
    Chair: Marwa Sallam, PhD (she/her/hers) – school of Engineering, Brown University
    Chair: Heloísa A S Ferreira (she/her/hers) – Institute of Biological Sciences / UFMG
    Chair: Soraia FT Pinto, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S), University of Porto, Portugal
    YSC Session
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  • Monday, Jul 14th
    1:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
    Speaker Presentation I
    Location: 122 B
    YSC Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    1:15 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    Pitch to Investors
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Mark Prausnitz, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    YSC Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    1:30 PM - 1:45 PM EDT
    Speaker Presentation III
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Katie Whitehead, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    YSC Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    1:45 PM - 2:15 PM EDT
    Q&A Discussion
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Mark Prausnitz, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Speaker: Katie Whitehead, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University
    YSC Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
    Unlocking Innovation: A Practical Guide to IP Protection
    Location: 122 B
    Chair: Rahaf Mihyar, MSc – Uniklinik RWTH Aachen
    Chair: Quim Peña, PhD (he/him/his) – RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging
    YSC Session
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  • Monday, Jul 14th
    2:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Speaker Presentation I
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Ben Charles Dibling, PhD CLP (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    YSC Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
    Identifying patentable ideas, filing and protecting IP and advancing IP to licensing and commercialization
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: S. Rahima Benhabbour, MSc. PhD (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    YSC Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    3:30 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
    Speaker Presentation III
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Paolo Decuzzi, PhD – Italian Institute of Technology
    YSC Session
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    YSC Meet & Greet with a Luminary
    Location: 122 B
    Chair: Antoni Torres Coll – Institut Químic de Sarrià (IQS)
    Chair: Hagar Labouta, PhD – University of Toronto
    YSC Session
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  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    YSC Award Lecture
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Twan Lammers, PhD, DSc – RWTH Aachen University Clinic
    YSC Session
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    YSC/FG Networking Event
    Location: Hall E - Early Career Scientists Meet-Up Station
    Chair: Maria Vivero-Lopez, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Nottingham
    Chair: JING YI Estee LEE (she/her/hers) – Universiti Sains Malaysia
    Chair: Heba Abd-El-Azim Abdelwahab – Harvard University
    YSC SessionFG SessionNetworking
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  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT
    Mentoring: Moving from One-Size Fits All to Meeting the Individual Needs of Trainees
    Location: 122 B
    Chair: Juan Aparico Blanco, PhD (he/him/his) – Complutense University of Madrid
    Chair: Sarah S. Nasr (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, College Park
    YSC Session
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  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    8:00 AM - 8:15 AM EDT
    Speaker Presentation I
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Maria Kavallaris, PhD (she/her/hers) – Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, University of New South Wales
    YSC Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    8:15 AM - 8:30 AM EDT
    IDP: what, why, when?
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Paola Luciani, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Bern
    YSC Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    8:30 AM - 8:45 AM EDT
    Mentoring Young Scientists on IDPs
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Cristina Fornaguera Puigvert, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institut Químic de Sarrià (IQS) - Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)
    YSC Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    8:45 AM - 9:00 AM EDT
    Towards independence: Developing an IDP and establishing your own research
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: Alejandro J. Paredes, PhD (he/him/his) – Queen's University Belfast
    YSC Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT
    YSC Chats with Luminaries
    Location: 122 B
    Chair: Gulcin Arslan Azizoglu, MSc PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Chair: Marwa Sallam, PhD (she/her/hers) – school of Engineering, Brown University
    Presenter: Maria J. Alonso, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Santiago de Compostela
    Presenter: Claus-Michael Lehr, PhD – HIPS - Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland & Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
    Presenter: Juliane Nguyen, PhD (she/her/hers) – UNC at Chapel Hill
    Presenter: Wyatt Shields, IV, PhD – University of Colorado Boulder
    YSC Session
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  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    YSC & Industry Foresight Council - Chat with Industry
    Location: 122 B
    Chair: Gulcin Arslan Azizoglu, MSc PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Chair: Marwa Sallam, PhD (she/her/hers) – school of Engineering, Brown University
    Presenter: Stephanie Barrett, PhD (she/her/hers) – Merck & Co., Inc.
    Presenter: Liz Pierson
    Presenter: Hunter Chen, PhD – Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
    YSC SessionCommittee Meeting
    Sponsored By 
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    1:00 PM - 1:02 PM EDT
    Introduction to Halozyme Therapeutics
    Location: 122 B
    Speaker: David Kang – Halozyme Therapeutics
    YSC SessionCommittee Meeting
    Sponsored By 
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    YSC Industry Career Panel
    Location: 122 B
    Chair: Quim Peña, PhD (he/him/his) – RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging
    Chair: Amy Logan, PhD (she/her/hers) – Children's Cancer Institute Australia
    Panelist: Marianne Ashford, PhD (she/her/hers) – AstraZeneca
    Panelist: Ana Cadete – Sanofi
    Panelist: Nishant S. Kulkarni – Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
    Panelist: Sara Nogueira, PhD – MilliporeSigma
    YSC Session
    Sponsored By 
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    YSC Scientific Workshop
    Location: 122 B
    Chair: Hagar Labouta, PhD – University of Toronto
    Co-Chair: Soraia FT Pinto, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S), University of Porto, Portugal
    YSC Session
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  • Friday, Jul 18th
    8:04 AM - 8:29 AM EDT
    My academic journey: lessons learned (and in progress)
    Location: 122 B
    Invited Speaker: Laura Ensign, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
    YSC Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    8:29 AM - 8:40 AM EDT
    Development of liposomes containing indacaterol maleate and ciclesonide for pulmonary delivery
    Location: 122 B
    Oral Abstract Speaker: Tuan Nghia Dinh (he/him/his) – University of Liège
    YSC Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    8:40 AM - 8:51 AM EDT
    Development and Evaluation of Polymeric In-Situ Implant of PROTACs for NSCLC with IVIVC Integration
    Location: 122 B
    Oral Abstract Speaker: Himaxi Patel, BS – St. John's University
    YSC Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    8:51 AM - 9:02 AM EDT
    Developing and validating imaging methods for lipid nanoparticle-based gene delivery
    Location: 122 B
    Oral Abstract Speaker: Melissa C. Hendrén, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Helsinki
    YSC Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    9:02 AM - 9:13 AM EDT
    Sweetener-mediated conversion of albendazole into ionic liquid for improved oral bioavailability
    Location: 122 B
    Oral Abstract Speaker: Joseph S. Adams, MPharm – The University of Arizona
    YSC Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    9:13 AM - 9:24 AM EDT
    A novel vaginal film for HIV prevention achieves one-month drug release in pigtail macaques
    Location: 122 B
    Oral Abstract Speaker: He Zhang, PhD Candidate (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research Institute
    YSC Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    9:24 AM - 9:35 AM EDT
    Targeted Delivery of Rosiglitazone for Traumatic Brain Injury Using 2DG-Functionalized Dendrimer
    Location: 122 B
    Presenting Author: SHAMILA GOPALAKRISHNAN, n/a – Washington State University
    YSC Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    9:35 AM - 9:46 AM EDT
    Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles as a versatile platform for mRNA delivery
    Location: 122 B
    Oral Abstract Speaker: Bryan Wender Debiasi, MSc (he/him/his) – School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto of University of Sao Paulo, Brazil - FCFRP/USP
    YSC Session
  • Friday, Jul 18th
    9:46 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    Advancing Personalized Breast Cancer Vaccine with Multiepitope Antigens and Biomimetic Nanoparticles
    Location: 122 B
    Oral Abstract Speaker: Anushri Sambanthan, PhD Candidate (she/her/hers) – National University of Malaysia
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