For four Tuesdays in July, the CIMIT Forum Summer Education Series offers attendees the opportunity to build an understanding of a new or important clinical or technical area. Novel Drug Delivery and Drug/Device Combination Therapy will play an increasingly important role in future therapeutics, enhancing both safety and efficacy. Controlled, localized drug delivery holds the promise to remove some of the key challenges of current therapeutics: toxicity (often distant from the site of intended action), patient compliance, and targeting (the inability to achieve sustained concentrations of the active agent at the site of the disease).
The goal of the 2010 CIMIT Summer Education Series is to link current and evolving technologies with unmet clinical needs through a series of lectures by expert scientist and clinician leaders who are developing new technologies and translating them into clinical solutions. The course will highlight technologies ranging from targeted polymer-drug conjugates and nano-scale carriers to intracellular delivery of siRNA and clinical applications including infectious disease, inflammation/immunity, cancer, cardiovascular and neurological diseases. Check out the podcast discussing this year's Summer Education Series.
When:Tuesdays in July: July 6, 13, 20, 27, 2010
4:00-6:00PM
Where:
Location: Boston University Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary's St., Boston
Colloquium Room, Room 906
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