Speaker: Dr. Shrikrishnan Sankaran Title: Living Therapeutic Materials – Hydrogel encapsulated bacteria for smart drug delivery Abstract: Living therapeutics is a rapidly growing field in which live microorganisms are engineered to produce and deliver drugs right within the body. A unique advantage of this approach is that the organisms can be programmed with smart functions […]

  Title: Drug Delivery across Biological Barriers for combatting and preventing infectious diseases. Prof. Dr. Claus-Michael Lehr Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) Dept of Drug Delivery. and Saarland University, Dept of Pharmacy, Saarbrücken, Germany. Abstract: Urgently needed anti-infective drugs and vaccines must reach their targets safely and […]

Speaker: Dr. Rashmi Mohanty Title: Extracellular Matrix- A Transport Barrier for Drug Delivery Abstract: Extracellular Matrix (ECM) determines crucial cellular responses through cell-matrix interactions. Specific qualitative and quantitative changes occur in the ECM during disease and, in part, regulate critical events that determine pathological tissue phenotype. For example, in solid cancers, the extraordinarily dense fibrotic […]