Engineering Tools and Therapeutics for Targeted Therapy

Track Chair(s)

• AA

  Aylin Acun, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Widener University
  Avondale, Pennsylvania, United States
• CT

  Cheemeng Tan

  Professor
  University of California, Davis
  Davis, California, United States

Session Chair(s)

• LD

  Larry Dooling
• 

  Jacob Schimelman, PhD

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  University of California San Diego
  La Jolla, California, United States

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM PDT

  Enzyme triggered engineered retroviral therapy (EnTRy) for tissue specific transduction
  

  Presenting Author: Susanna Elledge, PhD – MIT

  Co-Author: Qingyang Zhao – MIT

  Co-Author: Sofia Neaher – MIT

  Co-Author: Kasturi Chakraborty – MIT

  Co-Author: Michael Birnbaum – MIT

  Last Author: Sangeeta Bhatia – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Sangeeta Bhatia – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

  Autonomous Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) delivery using chronogenetic circuits for osteoporosis
  

  Presenting Author: Katelyn E. Lipa – Washington University in Saint Louis

  Co-Author: Amanda Cimino – Washington University in Saint Louis

  Co-Author: Fiona Pat – Washington University in Saint Louis

  Co-Author: Alireza Savadipour – Washington University in Saint Louis

  Co-Author: Lara Pferdehirt, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis

  Co-Author: Kristin Lenz – Washington University in Saint Louis

  Primary Investigator: Farshid Guilak – Washington University in Saint Louis
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PDT

  A complete protein suite for compact programmable secretion in mammalian cells
  

  Presenting Author: Alexander Vlahos, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Connor Call – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Noah Eckman – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Samarth E. Kadaba – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Abby Thurm – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Jeewoo Kang – Stanford University

  Last Author: Xiaojing Gao, Ph.D. – Stanford University

  Primary Investigator: Xiaojing Gao, Ph.D. – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Siqi Guo
• 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM PDT

  An IL-2 based immunocytokine to enable gene replacement therapy in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  

  Presenting Author: Peiying Liu – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Charina Fabilane – Johns Hopkins

  Co-Author: JAKUB TOMALA – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Philip k. Farahat – University of California, Irvine

  Co-Author: S Armando Villalta – University of California, Irvine

  Primary Investigator: Jamie Spangler – Johns Hopkins University
• 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM PDT

  Forced Nuclear Deformation Guides sgRNA Design for Enhanced CRISPR/Cas9 Efficiency
  

  Presenting Author: Yang Song, PhD – Sichuan University
• 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

  CRISPR-Based Direct Reprogramming of Adult Fibroblasts into Endothelial Cells
  

  Presenting Author: Grace Flynn – Northeastern University