IUPAC World Polymer Congress Technical Program

10:30 Engineering a polymeric device for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms. D.
Cohn, R. Abbas, R. Malal, A. Bloom
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11:00 Synthesis and application of multifunctional, peptide-based copolymers for drug delivery
to the brain. D. S. Chu, J. G. Schellinger, J. Shi, H. Wei, M. J. Bocek, D. L. Sellers, D. O. Maris,
R. N. Johnson, A. J. Convertine, P. S. Stayton, R. C. Rostomily, P. J. Horner, S. H. Pun
11:30 (Oligo)mannose functionalized hydroxyethyl starch nanocapsules: En route to drug
delivery systems with targeting properties. H. Freichels, K. Landfester, A. Musyanovych
11:50 Platinum(IV) prodrugs for controlled release formulations. P. Chhetri, B. A. Howell
Symposium: Macromolecules in Biotechnology and Medicine II (Holden 114)
B. Ratner, J. San Roman del Barrio, Organizers
Polymeric Therapeutics II
10:30 Soft matter and mechanobiology in biomedicine: From treatment of brain tumors to
matrix-based programming. D. E. Discher
11:00 Elastin-like recombinamer-based systems for biomedical and biotechnological uses. J.
Rodríguez-Cabello
11:30 Synthesis of magnetic glycoparticles and their bioconjugation with lectins. G. Marcelo, M.
Álvarez-Paino, A. Muñoz-Bonilla, J. Rodríguez-Hernández, M. Fernández-García
11:50 pH-responsive and biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles with potential application as
tumour-specific drug delivery containers. F. C. Giacomelli, C. Giacomelli, V. Schmidt, E. Jäger,
A. Jäger, K. Ulbrich, P. Stepánek
Symposium: Modern Methods of Characterization (McBryde 332)
K. Beers, T. Chang, Organizers
Complex Fluids, Rheology and Thermal Analysis—K. Tanaka, P. Spicer, Session Leaders
10:30 Mesoscopic heterogeneity in supramolecular systems. A. Shundo, K. Tanaka
11:05 Self-crowding and reversible assembly of native proteins into nanoclusters for
subcutaneous injection. T. M. Truskett