Thanks for joining us!
We appreciated your participation and attendance at the ASP 2021 Virtual Symposium Honoring Theresa Busch's 20th Anniversary at University of Pennsylvania. If you registered but were unable to attend, or if you saw it but want to see it again, please click here to view the recording.
Thank you again, and if you have any comments or questions regarding the symposium, please be sure to email us at Headquarters@Photobiology.org.
Sponsorship Opportunities at the 2021 Symposium
The Symposium will include presentations by:
- Keith Cengel (University of Pennsylvania)
- Jonathan Celli (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
- Bin Chen (University of the Sciences)
- Sandra Gollnick (Roswell Park)
- Tayyaba Hasan (MGH and Harvard University)
- Huang‐Chiao Huang (University of Maryland)
- Srivalleesha Mallidi (Tufts University)
- Sherri McFarland (University of Texas at Arlington)
- Imran Rizvi (University of North Carolina)
- Gal Shafirstein (Roswell Park)
- Bryan Q. Spring (Northeastern University)
- Timothy Zhu (University of Pennsylvania)
- Yi Hong Ong (University of Pennsylvania)
Click here for symposium program (PDF)
We thank our Sponsors
Program
June 8, 2021, from 11:00am - 5:00 pm Eastern Time
11 am – 1 pm
11:00 am – 11:05 am Alec Greer (CUNY) - Introduction
11:05 am – 11:10 am Costas Koumenis (Vice Chair of Research and Director of the Research Division, Radiation
Oncology, University of Pennsylvania)
11:10 am – 11:30 am Sandra Gollnick (Roswell Park) - PDT and Tumor Immunity
11:30 am – 11:50 am Bin Chen (University of the Sciences) - Targeting ABCG2 to
enhance 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) for tumor imaging and therapy
11:50 am – 12:10 pm Timothy Zhu (University of Pennsylvania) - Light dosimetry
for pleural PDT using a real-time navigation system
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm Break
12:20 pm – 12:40 pm Tayyaba Hasan (MGH and Harvard University) - Dramatic Reduction
of distant pancreatic metastases in immunodeficient mice using local PDT with nab-paclitaxel
12:40 pm – 1:00 pm Sherri McFarland (University of Texas at Arlington) - Metallodrug
photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm Lunch break
1:50 pm - 2:10 pm Jonathan Celli (University of Massachusetts, Boston) - Modeling tumor-microenvironment interactions in pancreatic cancer for development of biophysics-informed photomedicine strategies
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm Huang‐Chiao Huang (University of Maryland) - Photodynamic Modulation of Bidirectional Drug Transport Across the Blood-Brain Barrier
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm Srivalleesha Mallidi (Tufts University) - Functional and molecular photoacoustic Imaging guided photodynamic therapy
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm Imran Rizvi (University of North Carolina) - Flow-Induced Carboplatin Resistance in a 3D Model for Ovarian Cancer: Targeted PDT and Combinations
3:10 pm - 3:30 pm Gal Shafirstein (Roswell Park) - Light Dosimetry Guided Interstitial PDT for Locally Advanced Cancer
3:30 pm - 3:40 pm Tea break
3:40 pm - 4:00 pm Bryan Q. Spring (Northeastern University) - Development of multiplexed microendoscopy to guide precision cancer medicine
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Keith Cengel (University of Pennsylvania) -
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm Yi Hong Ong (University of Pennsylvania) - Blood Flow-Informed Photodynamic Therapy (BFI-PDT) Improves Therapeutic Efficacy
4:40 pm - 4:50 pm Gwendolyn Cramer (University of Pennsylvania) - Surgery for mesothelioma induces immunosuppression that limits photodynamic therapy efficacy
4:50 pm - 5:00 pm Theresa Busch (University of Pennsylvania) - Try, Try Again and other lessons on scientific research from A. A. Milne’s Hundred Acre Wood
