Conference Topics

Regenerative Nano-Medicine and Nano-Engineering 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Implant-Tissue Interaction Surface Modification Strategies for Implants Nanoengineered Hydrogels for Regenerative Medicine Biomechanics of Engineered Tissues Stem cell based Regenerative Medicine Nanoengineered Scaffolds Nanoengineered Materials for Wound Healing 3D Organ Printing

Cancer Nanotechnology 1. Cancer Nanomedicine: Novel approaches in singledrug/multidrug therapeutics, overcoming drug reistance, blocking/treating metastasis 2. Novel Cancer Biomarkers for Active Targeting 3. Cancer Nanotheragnostics: Molecular Imaging + Therapy 4. RNAi using Nanomaterials (siRNA/miRNA), Combinatorial approaches of RNAi+Chemotherapy 5. Nanocontrast Agents for Cancer Diagnosis, Detection of Circulating Cancer Cells

6. New Therapeutic Approaches using Nanomaterials: Hyperthermia, Photothermal, Radiothermal and Photodynamic Therapy 7. Methods to overcome in vivo challenges 8. Nano-immunotherapy

Nano Drug Delivery 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Drug Delivery for Cancer Gene Delivery Peptide and Protein Drug Delivery Targeted Drug Delivery Biomolecules and Growth Factor Delivery Novel Drug Delivery Materials Drug Delivery Platforms for Infectious Diseases Drug Delivery for Diabetes Anti-fungal, Anti-viral, Anti-bacterial & Anti-inflammatory nanomedicines

Molecular Medicine 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Molecular Basis of Pathogenesis and Diagnosis Biomarker Discovery and Clinical Proteomics Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and its Role in Drug Therapy Genetic Basis of Diseases Microbial Biochemistry and Pathogenesis Biochemistry of Medicinal Plants in Diseases Bio-informatics in Biology, Drug Design and Therapy

Molecular Diagnostics, Nanobiomaterials and Nanotoxicology 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Novel approaches in molecular imaging using nanomaterials Advanced Analytical Methods in Disease Diagnosis Novel biomedical nanomaterials Nanobiosensors Toxicity of Nanomaterials

Speakers

Dr Antonios G Mikos, Rice University, Department of Bioengineering, USA

Dr Cato T Laurencin, Univerisity of Connecticut Health Centre, USA

Dr Neil P Desai, Abraxis Biosciences, USA

Dr Shantikumar V Nair, ACNSMM, Kochi, India

Dr A Surolia, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi

Dr Anita Goel , Nanobiosym Inc., USA

Dr Beth Pruit , Department of Materials Science, Stanford University, USA

Dr Johnna S Temenoff, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech, USA

Dr Prabha D Nair , Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Trivandrum,Kerala

Dr Krishna Prasad C, ACNSMM, Kochi, India

Dr Lakshmi Nair , Univerisity of Connecticut Health Centre, USA

Dr S Swaminathan , Sastra University, Tanjore, India

Dr Mansoor Amiji , Northeastern University, USA

Dr K.Manzoor , ACNSMM, Kochi, India

Dr Sanjeeb k Sahoo , Institute of Life Sciences, India

Dr Gopal Kundu , National Centre for Cell Sciences, Pune, India

Dr Rao Papineni, Carestream, USA

Dr Dhirendra Katti, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Dr Joel D Bumgardener, University of Memphis, USA

Dr Chang Su Cho , Seoul National University, South Korea

Dr In-Kyu Park, Chonnam Medical School, South Korea.

Dr Chandra P Sharma ,Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Trivandrum,Kerala

Dr R Jayakumar , ACNSMM, Kochi, India

Dr Pedro Granja , University of Porto, Portugal

Dr Claude Bernard, Monash University, Australia

Dr Chitra Mandal , Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta

Dr Chitra Sarkar , All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Dr Sudheer Krishna , National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Dr Krishnakumar Menon , ACNSMM, Kochi, India

Dr D Bahadur , Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Dr T Pradeep , Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai

Dr Alok Dhawan , Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow

Dr Deepthy Menon, ACNSMM, Kochi, India