#AFPMconference
Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine 2023
The AFPM 2023 conference will offer delegates innovative and stimulating topics with a well-balanced programme of invited speakers and poster presentations.
The purpose of the AFPM conference series is to strengthen the interactions within the community of chemists, material engineers, physicists, biologists and clinicians in the development of Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine.
The current status, challenges and requirements for future developments of polymers for medicine are presented by leading experts. The conference provides an outstanding opportunity to help young scientists in their career development and offers them an interdisciplinary discussion forum within an exclusive circle.
7-9
June 2023
Important dates
Deadline for abstracts submission (template):
8th May
Registration deadline:
1st June
Venue
Parc Científic de Barcelona
Caparrós Auditorium
C. Baldiri Reixac, 4-8
08028 Barcelona
Sponsor de event
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Conference rate
- Registration
- 3 lunches (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday)
- Conference dinner on Thursday evening
- All refreshments and snacks
Chairs of the conference:
Prof. Elisabeth Engel · Institute for Bioengineering / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Óscar Castaño · Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia / Universitat de Barcelona
Prof. Dr. Andreas Lendlein
Prof. Dr. Dirk Grijpma · University of Twente, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Nicola Tirelli · Italian Institute of Technology
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
PROGRAMME
| 12:30 | Registration open |
| 13:00-14:00 | Get-together lunch and poster session |
| 14:15-14:45 | Welcome and introduction to AFPM 2023 |
| 14:45-15:15 | Porous Hybrid Networks based on Poly(trimethylene carbonate) and Collagen. |
| 15:15-15:45 | Biofabrication approaches for cancer research and tissue engineering: from biopolymers to bioprinting. |
| 15:45-16:15 | Applications of Electroresponsive Polymers in Biomedical Engineering |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee break & poster session |
| 16:45-17:15 | Functional polymer inks for multi-material 3D printing of hybrid and instrumented human tissue models |
| 17:15-17:45 | Hyaluronic Acid Aerogels for Biomedical Applications. |
| 17:45 – 18:15 | 4D Bioprinting of Self-folding Structures for Tissue Engineering Applications Giovanni Vozzi, University of Pisa, Italy |
| 18:15- 19:00 | Welcome drink and appetizer |
+19:30-22:30Gala Dinner
| 09:30-10:00 | Living Therapeutic Hydrogels: drug depots with self-replenishing function |
| 10:00-10:30 | Combination of Different Protease Sensitive and Bioactive Moieties to Achieve Spatiotemporally Control of Function in Recombinamer-based Hydrogels |
| 10:30-11:00 | Growth factor microenvironments in stem cell engineering Manuel Salmerón, University of Glasgow, Scotland |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break & poster session |
| 11:30-12:00 | Hyaluronan derivatives and composites: a round trip from chemistry to biofabrication and immunomodulation |
| 12:00-12:30 | Probing Function with Designing Structure |
| 12:30-13:00 | Bottom-Up Tissue Engineering using Microscale Living Materials: Building Vascularized Tissues for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Modelling Cristina Barrias, INEB – Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch & poster session |
| 14:30-15:00 | Cell-Interactive 3D Polyester Constructs at the Speed of Light |
| 15:00-15:30 | Using Nature’s engineering principles to design biointerfaces and synthetic cells for medicine César Rodríguez-Emmenegger Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain |
| 15:30-16:00 | Designer drug delivery vehicles via polymerization-induced self-assembly Bas van Ravensteijn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break & poster session |
| 16:30-17:00 | Impact of the Cytoplasmic Interactome of Polymer Brush Gene Delivery Vectors on RNA Delivery |
| 17:00-17:30 | Functionalized polymer-based platforms for modulating cellular response Maria Grazia Raucci,National Research Council – Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials (CNR-IPCB), Naples – Italy |
| 19:30-22:30 | Gala Dinner |
| 09:30-10:00 | Human-derived proteins to be used in regenerative medicine and disease modeling |
| 10:00-10:30 | Biomaterials recreating the tumor extracellular matrix for cancer modeling |
| 10:30-11:00 | Chitosan conjugates to kill or protect bacteria |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break & poster session |
| 11:30-12:00 | Versatile Polypeptide-based Nanoconjugates for Multimodal Therapeutic Applications |
| 12:00-12:30 | Neurological phenotypic nanomedicines: BBB crossing and new therapy development Giuseppe Battaglia, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalunya (IBEC), Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials, and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) |
| 12:30-13:00 | Engineering the Nervous System towards the understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases |
| 13:00-14:00 | Goodbye drink and poster session |