Biomaterials Science Blog

Congratulations to Kristel Tjandra from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Isha Haridass from Curtin University, Perth, Australia and Younus Mohammad from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, who won the Biomaterials Science poster prize at the recent Drug Delivery Australia 2016 conference in Sydney, Australia.

Congratulations to Giulia Ballerin from the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia and Shadabul Haque from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia for winning the Speaker Presentation prize, and received a bursary to attend the CRS meeting in Boston in 2017.

Kristel Tjandra’s winning poster was titled “Targeted Delivery of Doxorubicin through Conjugation to Phage-Display Selected Peptide“; Isha Haridass’ winning poster was about “Space- and Time-resolved Investigation of Diffusion Properties and Metabolic Changes of Human Skin Following Macromolecule Delivery by Microprojection Arrays” and Younus Mohammad’s poster tackled the topic of  “Investigating the effects of Tween 80 on sterically stabilising non-lamellar liquid crystalline nanoparticles of selachyl alcohol“.

Giulia Ballerin talked about “How to Exploit Pseudomonas aeruginosa Tolerance: β-Lactam Antibiotic Nasal Delivery for Chronic Respiratory Infections” and Shadabul Haque discussed “A Comparison of the Lung Clearance Kinetics, Pathways and Safety of Inhaled Solid Lipid Nanoparticles and Liposomes“.

Drug Delivery Australia 2016, hosted by the Australian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society, was held in Sydney on 27 – 28^th October 2016.

Mr. Dirk Steinhilber
P051 – Multifunctional endritic Polyglycerol Nano- and Microgels for Encapsulation and Release of Functional Biomacromolecules

Ms. Aya Tsubokura (not pictured)
Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University
P108 – Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell on the Single Line Pattern in Nano-Size Fabricated on the Electron Beam Reactive Mask Material

Mr. Mitsuru Naito
Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo
P122 – Phenylboronate functionalized polyion complex micelles as ATP-sensitive smart delivery system of siRN

Mr. Mitsuru Naito and Dr Liz Dunn

Mr. Dirk Steinhilber & Dr Liz Dunn

Each student received a Biomaterials Science Prize certificate, presented by Dr Liz Dunn, Managing Editor of Biomaterials Science as well as an RSC book.

Congratulations to Jinzi Zheng from the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada, who won the Biomaterials Science poster prize at the recent NanoBio 2012 conference in Seattle, USA.

Jinzi Zheng’s winning poster was titled “PET/CT Imaging of the Heterogeneous Distribution of [64Cu]-Iodine Liposomes in Orthotopic Mouse Cervical Tumors”.

NanoBio 2012 was held 23^rd – 26^th July 2012.