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8th US - Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems

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Sunday, December 18, 2005

3:00 – 5:30 p.m. Registration Ocean Lanai Terrace
5:45 – 6.55 p.m. Welcome Reception Lanai Kauai/Pool Deck
7:00 p.m. Evening session Haleakala Ballroom
Introduction:

Discussion Leader:

9:00 9:30 p.m.

Robert Langer and Yasuhiko Tabata

Rodney Pearlman

Coffee Break
 

Speakers

Michael Cima
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Polymorphism and co-crystals: Discovery and relationship to drug product development

Takehiko Kitamori
Professor, University of Tokyo
Micro and nano systems for bio and analytical technologies

Thomas Davison
CEO, Sontra Medical Corporation
Ultrasonic skin permeation and applications in transdermal drug delivery

Khursheed Anwer
Vice President of Research, Expression Genetics, Inc.
Preclinical and clinical development of an anti-cancer gene therapeutic

Kirk Fowers
Vice President Product Development, MacroMed, Inc.
OncoGel: Future directions
 



Monday, December 19, 2005

7:00 – 8:00 a.m.   Registration Ocean Lanai Terrace
8:30 a.m. Morning Session Haleakala Ballroom
Discussion Leader:

10:45 – 11:15 a.m.

Allan Hoffman

Coffee Break
 

Speakers Francis Szoka
Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
Targeting tumors with proteins, polymers and liposomes

Takashi Miyata
Professor, Kansai University
Smart gels that respond to biomolecules

Nicholas Peppas
Fletcher S. Pratt Chair of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceuticals,
University of Texas - Austin
Intelligent therapeutics and bionanotechnology

Hideyuki Okano
Professor, Keio University School of Medicine
Neural stem cells and CNS-repair

Henry Brem
Chair, Dept of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Drug delivery for brain tumor therapy

Afternoon Unscheduled

7:30 p.m. Evening Session Haleakala Ballroom
Discussion Leader:

8:50 p.m.

Naofumi Hashimoto

Refreshment Break
 
Speakers John Patton
Founder and CSO, Nektar Therapeutics
Applicability of inhalation delivery to medicine

Jeff Hrkach
Senior Director of Drug Delivery, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Non-invasive glycan-mediated drug delivery

David Edwards
Co-Founder, Pulmatrix, Inc.
A new approach to treating the flu and other infectious airborne diseases

Stephen Farr
SVP and CSO, Aradigm Corp
Integrating needle-free injection into mainstream drug delivery science

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

8:30 a.m. Morning Session Haleakala Ballroom
Discussion Leader:

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Ryoji Konishi

Coffee Break
 
Speakers Masashi Komeda
Professor and Chair, Kyoto University Hospital
Developing new treatment of heart disease by combining DDS with cardiac surgery

Howard Rosen
VP., Commercial Strategy, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Anti-infective therapies: Past, present and future

Kazuhiro Sako
Senior Director, Product Value Maximization, Astellas Pharm, Inc.
Novel oral controlled release technologies for product value maximization

Sung Wan Kim
Distinguished Professor, University of Utah
Gene delivery for the treatment of diabetes

Rie Igarashi
Professor, St. Marianna University School of Medicine
Nano-egg and nano-cube, new technology for transdermal drug delivery systems

Afternoon Unscheduled

7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Evening Session Haleakala Ballroom
Oral Presentation of Posters:

Discussion Leader:

8:30 p.m.

Selected from Poster Session #1

Michael Sefton

Refreshment Break


Wednesday, December 21, 2005

8:30 a.m. Morning Session Haleakala Ballroom
Discussion Leader:

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

V. Prasad Shastri

Coffee Break
 
Speakers Gary Cleary
President and CTO, Corium International, Inc.
Advances in Drug Delivery Using Mechanical Microporation

John Siebert
Chairman and CEO, Cydex, Inc.
Can enabling technology be a stairway to heaven business model?

Gerald Bernstein
VP, Medical Affairs, Director, Generex Biotechnology Corp
Buccal delivery of insulin: A simple solution to a complex problem

Kazunari Taira
Professor, University of Tokyo
It's a small RNA world that makes a big revolution in the biomedical field

Michael Goldberg
President and CEO, Emisphere Technologies, Inc.
Oral macromolecule delivery: Review of the large and expanding clinical database

Afternoon Unscheduled

7:30 p.m. Evening Session Haleakala Ballroom
Discussion Leader:

8:50 p.m.

Yasuhiko Tabata

Refreshment Break
 
Speakers Larry Brown
CTO, Epic Therapeutics - a wholly owned subsidiary of Baxter Healthcare Corporation
PROMAXX monoclonal antibody, nucleic acid and protein microspheres

Hideyoshi Harashima
Professor, Hokkaido University
Multifunctional envelope type nano-device for non-viral gene delivery: Concept and application of programmed packaging

Mark Staples
Vice President of Rsch & Dev, MicroCHIPS, Inc.
Intelligent implantable devices: Solutions for drug delivery and biosensing

Min Young Lee
Vice President, Sam Yang Corporation
Genexol-PM, a polymeric micelle-based formulation of paclitaxel, phase II studies with breast, lung, and pancreas cancer
 


Thursday, December 22, 2003

8:30 a.m. Morning Session Haleakala Ballroom
Discussion Leader:

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Daniel S. Kohane

Coffee Break
 
Speakers Shigeru Kawakami
Professor, Kyoto University
Mannosylated cationic liposomes for DNA vaccine therapy

Howard Bernstein
Sr. Vice President Research & Development, Acusphere, Inc.
Applications of porous microparticles for intravenous drug delivery

Hiroshi Kikuchi
Group Manager, R&D Division, Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd
New revolution in drug delivery systems: Liposome technology for siRNA delivery

Thomas Schluep
CSO, Insert Therapeutics, Inc.
Cyclodextrin-based polymers for delivery of a broad range of therapeutics

Shunji Nagahara
Team Manager, Formulation Research Labs, Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd
Atelcollagen-Mediated Delivery Technology for Nucleic Acid Medicines
 

Afternoon Unscheduled

7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Evening Session Haleakala Ballroom
Oral Presentation of Posters:

Discussion Leader:

8:30 p.m.

Selected from Poster Session #2

Alexander Klibanov

Refreshment Break

ADJOURN AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 P.M.

Thank You for Participating.
We Hope to See you at the 9th Symposium in 2007.

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