Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Cancer Nanotechnology
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Macrophage Checkpoint Blockade for Cancer: Nano Approaches"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
"Building Immunity with Biomaterials"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Engineering Biomaterials for Cancer Nanotechnology
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Multivalency and Multiplexing in Nanomedicine Design"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Rational and Biologically-Informed Material Design for Cancer Therapy"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Nano-Ghosts: Charting a New TRAIL for Mesenchymal Stem Cells"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Barcoded Cancer Nanomedicines and Nanoimmunotherapies Perform Differently in the Primary Tumor and in the Metastasis"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Machine Learning Processes to Develop Targeted Nanomedicines and Diagnostics"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Smart Cancer Nanomedicine"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Rational Design of Polymer Therapeutics
9:00 am - 9:35 am
"Multifunctional Nanosystems for Virus Capture and Tumor Therapy"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:20 am
"Rationally-Designed Polypeptide-Based Combination Therapeutics"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 am
"Super-High Capacity Polymeric Micelles"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pm
"Responsive Polymers as Probes and Therapeutics for Cancer Applications"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Microbiome as a Target for Cancer Nanotechnology
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Nanotechnologies for Combination Cancer Immunotherapy"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Nanotechnology for Manipulating the Microbiome in Cancer"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Immuno-Oncology and Nanotechnology
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Nano-Vaccine Delivery Overcomes Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Therapy"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Non-Canonical STING Activation by a Synthetic Polymer for Innate Stimulation"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Using Nanotechnology to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Clinical Translation of Cancer Nanotechnologies
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Antibody-Drug Conjugates"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Developing Nanomedicines to Enable Innovative Cancer Medicines"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nucleic Acid Therapeutics
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Transient Gene Silencing Versus Permanent Gene Editing: Opportunities and Limitations for Nanoparticle Delivery of miRNA and CRISPR/Cas Cancer Treatments"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"A Universal Platform for RNA Therapeutics"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Lipid Nanoparticles to Enable Delivery of mRNA for Oncology"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Selected Poster Presentations
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
"Polymersomes for STING Agonist Delivery"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
"Deciphering Tumoral Biology by Novel Nano-Functional Proteomics Approaches: Novel Therapeutic Targets in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Leptomeningeal Diseases"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
"What Will Happen When PD-1+ Cells Are Depleted: A Suppression of Autoimmunity, Not Healthy Immunity"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
"Magnetic Particle Imaging for Quantitative Tracking of Adoptive Cell Transfer in Cancer Immunotherapy"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
"Polyethylene Glycol Bottlebrush Mediated siRNA Delivery for Cancer Therapy"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
"How Do Nanoparticles Enter Solid Tumours?"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
"Activation of Self- and Neoantigen-Specific Tumor Infiltrating T Cells by Polymeric Nanoparticles"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
"Tissue-Level Mechanosensitivity: Predicting and Controlling the Orientation of 3D Vascular Networks"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure