The US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems offers presentations by researchers from a number of disciplines, from the life sciences to engineering, who will address a range of topics including peptide and protein delivery, gene delivery, cell delivery, vaccines, transdermals, pulmonary delivery, new materials, and other subjects, from varied disciplines while focusing on the central theme of drug delivery. The Symposium offers a unique opportunity for interaction and networking among attendees from academia and industry.
Plenary Speakers
Badriprasad (Badri) Ananthanarayanan, Earli, Inc
Daniel Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Patrick Anquetil, Portal Instruments
Aaron Anselmo, VitaKey Inc
Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado – Boulder
Kerry Benenato, Sail Biomedicines
Niya Bowers, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Henry Brem, John Hopkins University – School of Medicine
Maureen Chlopik, Lyndra Inc
Joseph DeSimone, Stanford University
Avi Domb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yizhou Dong, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Vadim Dudkin, Souffle Therapeutics
David Edwards, Sensory Cloud Inc
Giancarlo Francese, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Shimpei Gotoh, Kyoto University
Jeffrey Haley, Celanese
Kenji Hyodo, Eisai Co. Ltd
Ana Jaklenec, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shaoyi Jiang, Cornell University
Sabrina Martucci Johnson, Daré Biosciences
Hiroshi Kikuchi, DDS Strategy Firm
Cato Laurencin, University of Connecticut
Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Tetsuya Nagata, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Hideyuki Okano, Keio University
John Patton, Kindeva Drug Delivery
Gregg Redeker, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Hirohide Saito, University of Tokyo
Michael Sefton, University of Toronto
Upma Sharma, Arsenal Medical
Asim Siddiqui, Seer
Masayo Takahashi, Vision Care Inc
Takanori Takebe, Osaka University
Katsuto Tamai, Osaka University
John Walker, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Kathryn Whitehead, Carnegie Mellon University
Masahiro Yasunaga, National Cancer Center, Japan
Chae-Ok Yun, Hanyang University
Wei Zhu, Cellink Bioprinting AB
Session Chairs
Rebecca Carrier, Northeastern University
Alex Denner, Sarissa Capital
Aimee Hamilton, University of Denver
Dan Hartman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Michael Langer, T.Rx Cap
Susan Langer, Souffle Therapeutics
Rodney Pearlman, RPM Therapeutics
Nicholas Peppas, The University of Texas, Austin
Howard Rosen, Stanford University
Oljora Rezhdo, Tret Therapeutics
Gio Traverso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shelley Weinstock
Bruce Zetter, Boston Children’s Hospital