The Carolina Cancer Nanotechnology Training Program and the Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy are hosting a Targeted Delivery to the Tumor Environment Workshop.

Workshop content will focus on mechanisms to deliver therapeutic agents to tumors, and the workshop will combine didactic lectures with case study discussion and primary literature analysis. The workshop is open to interested postdocs and graduate students.

The list of speakers includes:

• Aaron Anselmo, PhD – therapeutic microbes
• Elena Batrakova, PhD – exosomes
• Yevgeny Brudno, PhD – refillable drug depots
• Yanguang Cao, PhD – antibodies
• Dirk Dittmer, PhD – viruses
• Shawn Hingtgen, PhD – stem cells
• Sasha Kabanov, PhD, DrSci – polymeric micelles
• Sam Lai, PhD – nanoparticles
• Rihe Liu, PhD – high affinity ligands for cancer cells
• Colette Shen, MD - stereotactic radiosurgery
• Andy Wang, MD – nanoparticle vectors

Locations are as follows:

Email amy_fry@unc.edu with any questions.