The Drug Delivery & Translational Medicine Seminar series, initiated by Dr. Weiping Wang in 2022, aims to invite the renowned scientists and rising star researchers to introduce cutting-edge technologies and breakthroughs on drug delivery systems and translational medicine. The seminar series was sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacy, HKU.
The students and faculty members across different disciplines are welcome to join in the coming seminars! We hope to create an interdisciplinary communication platform for knowledge exchange and potential collaborations.
For enquiries, please contact us at [email protected]
Next seminar
Title: Chemical Approaches to Decoding Histone Epigenetics
Speaker: Prof. Xiang David Li
Professor
Department of Chemistry
The University of Hong Kong
Date: 26 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Venue: SR608, 6/F, William MW Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road
Previous Seminars
Title: Engineered Materials and Devices for Phototherapy and Optogenetics
Speaker: Prof. Yong Zhang
Chair Professor & Head
Department of Biomedical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Date: 29 February 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: 3SR-SR2, 4/F, No. 3 Sassoon Road
Title: Pharmaceutical Applications of 3D Printing
Speaker: Dr. Lifeng Kang
Senior Lecturer
School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health
University of Sydney, Australia
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
31 January 2024 (Wednesday)
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93597791732
Meeting ID: 935 9779 1732
Password: 079537
Title: Cell Engineering and Future Immuno-therapies
Speaker: Prof. Cheng Dong
Chair Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 8 December 2023 (Friday)
Venue: HKJC-S3, G/F, Room G-05, The HKJC Bldg for Interdisciplinary Research
Title: Decellularized Tissue Engineering Hyaline Cartilage Graft for Articular Cartilage Repair and Its Forward-Looking Test for Space Medicine
Speaker: Prof. Dong-An Wang
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 10 November 2023 (Friday)
Venue: LT1, G/F, Lecture Theatre 1, William M.W. Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building
Title: Delivery vehicles to improve local T cell therapies
Speaker: Dr. Ryan Wylie
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 31 Oct 2023 (Tuesday)
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Zoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94100234272
Meeting ID: 941 0023 4272
Password: 172307
Title: Novel inhalation aerosol delivery: From charged particles to nebulised probiotic
Speaker: Dr. Philip Kwok
Senior Lecturer
School of Pharmacy
The University of Sydney, Australia
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 28 Sept 2023 (Thursday)
Venue: HKJC-S3, G/F, G-05, 5 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Title: Notch signaling in vascular health and disease
Speaker: Prof. Urban Lendahl
Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Karolinska Institute
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. 26 Sept 2023 (Tuesday)
Venue: SR2, 4/F, 3 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Title: Nano-/microscale materials-enabled drug delivery technologies
Speaker: Dr. Wei Tao
Principal Investigator
Center for Nanomedicine
Havard Medical School
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 21 July 2023 (Friday)
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Title: Neutrophils mediate cutaneous extravasation of liposomes via complement pathway
Speaker: Prof. Changyou Zhan
Professor
School of Basic Medical Sciences
Fudan University
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 13 June 2023 (Tuesday)
Venue: Seminar Room 608, 6/F, 21 Sassoon Road
Title: Nanotherapeutics for neonatal and pediatric brain disease
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Nance
Associate professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 12 May 2023 (Friday)
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Title: Nano-cell interactions of non-cationic bionanomaterials
Speaker: Dr. C. H. Jonathan Choi
Associate professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
CUHK
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 21 Apr. 2023 (Friday)
Venue: Seminar Room 609, 6/F, 21 Sassoon Road
Title: Developing advanced biomaterials and devices for type 1 diabetes cell replacement therapies
Speaker: Prof. Minglin Ma
Professor
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
Time: 09:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 31 Mar. 2023 (Friday)
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Title: Minimalist design of biomimetic materials
Speaker: Prof. Ying Chau
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
HKUST
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 24 Feb. 2023 (Friday)
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, G/F, 21 Sassoon Road
Title: RNA delivery for cancer immunotherapy and beyond
Speaker: Dr. Jinjun Shi
Associate professor
Harvard Medical School
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 31 Jan. 2023 (Tuesday)
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Title: Microneedle-based skin patch for transdermal drug delivery and biosensing
Speaker: Dr. Chenjie Xu
Associate professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Time: 03:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. 16 Dec. 2022 (Friday)
Venue: Seminar Room 1, G/F, 21 Sassoon Road
Title: Paediatric pharmaceutics: a taster
Speaker: Prof Catherine Tuleu
Professor in Paediatric Pharmaceutics
School of Pharmacy University College London, UK
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. 11 Nov. 2022 (Friday)
Venue: Zoom Seminar