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 and Dr. Li Dak-Sum Research Centre, 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]
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Previous Seminars
Title: Platinum anticancer prodrugs: New stories from old drugs
Speaker: Prof. Guangyu Zhu
Head and Professor
Department of Chemistry
City University of Hong Kong
Date: 26 March 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 2, G/F, Laboratory Block, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Title: Modulation of Nitric Oxide for the Treatment of Inflammatory Disease and Cancer
Speaker: Prof. Won Jong Kim
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Date: 28 February 2025 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94511785848
Meeting ID: 945 1178 5848
Password: 893407
Title: Phase-separated molecular coacervates for intracellular delivery and cancer therapies
Speaker: Prof. Jiang Xia
Professor
Department of Chemistry & School of Life Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 23 January 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Boardroom, 1/F, Daniel & Mayce Yu Administration Wing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Title: Chemical/Biosensor for food & Healthcare
Speaker: Prof. Nadnudda Rodthongkum
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Deputy Director, Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute (MMRI)
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Date: 13 December 2024 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 1, G/F, Laboratory Block, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, The University of Hong Kong
Title: Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing for precision therapy of bacterial infection
Speaker: Prof. Kangning Ren
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Hong Kong Baptist University
Date: 22 November 2024 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Title: New Approaches to Photoswitchable Reagents allowing Optically Precise Imaging and Control over Biology
Speaker: Prof. Oliver Thorn-Seshold
W3 Professor of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Date: 18 October 2024 (Friday)
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93153218025
Meeting ID: 931 5321 8025
Password: 523091
Title: Optimized mRNA Tails Enhances Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines
Speaker: Prof. Yi Kuang
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date: 26 September 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Title: Polymer-based Platinum(lV) Prodrugs and Their Future Development Directions
Speaker: Prof. Haihua Xiao
Professor, Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China
Date: 30 August 2024 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98601891765
Meeting ID: 986 0189 1765
Password: 839677
Title: Using Light to Control Biology and the Delivery of Therapeutics
Speaker: Prof. Simon Friedman
UM Curators' Distinguished Professor
Division of Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
Date: 16 July 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 608, 6/F William MW Mong Block, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, The University of Hong Kong
Title: Photopharmacology: Towards Light-Controlled Pharmacological Therapy
Speaker: Prof. Wiktor Szymanski
Professor, Chair of Medicinal Chemistry
Photopharmacology and Imaging,
Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Date: 24 May 2024 (Friday)
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96604666379
Meeting ID: 966 0466 6379
Password: 249124
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
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