Rajagopal Ramesh, PhD

Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Campus

Introduction

Gary Raskob, PhD

Provost, University of Oklahoma Health Campus

Welcome

Robert Mannel, MD

Director, OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center

State of the Cancer Center Address

Daniel A. Heller, PhD

Head, Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory
Member, Molecular Pharmacology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute
Co-Director, The Pat and Ian Cook Doctoral Program in Cancer Engineering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine

“Nanotherapeutics Targeting Dysregulated Inflammation”

Shaoyi Jiang, PhD

Robert Langer ’70 Family and Friends Professor and Professor in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, NY

Stefan Wilhelm, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma

Debadyuti (Rana) Ghosh, PhD

Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, The University of Texas at Austin, TX

“Formulating lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery to the pulmonary tract”

Oleh Taratula, PhD

Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Pharmaceutics, Oregon State University College of Pharmacy

“mRNA Nanotherapeutics for Cancer and Associated Cachexia”

Song Li, MD, PhD

David and Betty Brenneman Professor and Director of the Center for Pharmacogenetics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy

“Tumor-penetrating nanocarriers for cancer immunochemotherapy”

Vladimir Ljubimov, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

“Nanoimmuno polymer drug delivery for brain tumors”

Biana Godin, PhD

Associate Professor of BioNanoengineering in Medicine, Houston Methodist; Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, TX

“Macrophage targeting as a therapeutic strategy for poorly vascularized tumors”

John Clegg, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma

Akash Gupta, PhD

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX

“Engineering Immunity through RNA programming and Nanoparticle Delivery”

Sunil Krishnan, MD, PhD

Professor and Director of Radiation Oncology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX

“Delivering metal nanoparticles to tumors for image-guided radiation therapy enhancement”

Leslie Chan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

“Ingestible metabolic probes for breath-based detection of gastrointestinal diseases”

Shashank Sirsi, PhD

Associate Professor in Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas, TX

Shreya Goel, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Amit Joshi, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair of Research and Clinical Affairs, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin

Vibhuti Agrahari, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Oklahoma

Chang Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma

James Battiste, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma

Riddha Das

Research Assistant Professor, William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston

Alexander Kabanov, PhD, DSc

Mescal Swaim Ferguson Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery; Co-Director, Carolina Institute for Nanomedicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Peisheng Xu, PhD

Professor of Pharmaceutics, University of South Carolina, SC

Ram Mahato, PhD

Parke-Davis Professor of Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery, University of Nebraska Medical Center

“Nanomedicine of siRNA and Small Molecule Drug for Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatohepatitis”

Mahavir Bhupal Chougule, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mercer University College of Pharmacy, GA

“From Target Recognition to Gene Silencing: Parenteral Receptor targeted siRNA-loaded Biopolymeric Nanocarriers for Severe Asthma Immunotherapy”

Mei He, PhD

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Program, Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida

Natalia Higuita-Castro, PhD

Director of Advanced Therapeutics & Engineering, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute; Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery, Ohio State University

Munjal M. Acharya, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor, Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology and Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine

Rupa Haldavnekar, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; NanoSpectral BioDiagnostics Laboratory, University of Oklahoma

Prashant Dogra, PhD, BPharm

Assistant Professor, Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy; Associate Director, Center for Quantitative Drug and Disease Modeling, University of Southern California, CA

Vivek Agrahari, PhD

Lead Scientist, Product Development, CONRAD; Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

Daniel Reker, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Duke University, NC