Session: Polymer Performance, Degradation, and Materials Selection


POLY		Tuesday, March 27, 2007

8:00 AM-12:10 PM McCormick Place South -- Room S503B, Level 5, Oral
Polymer Performance, Degradation, and Materials Selection
Environmental Degradation and Controlled Drug Release
Sponsored by:	POLY
Organizers:	Mathew Celina Stephen Heinz Norman C. Billingham
8:00 AM	205	Environmentally degradable polyolefins Graham Swift, Radu Bacui
8:30 AM	206	Degradable polymers and their interaction with the environment A-C Albertsson, Minna Hakkarainen
9:00 AM	207	Marine-degradable thermoplastic polyurethanes Scott J. Moravek, Tim R. Cooper, Mohammad K. Hassan, Stephen Heinz, Kenneth A. Mauritz, Robson F. Storey
9:30 AM		Intermission
9:50 AM	208	Tutorial: Recent developments in synthetic biodegradable polymers Abraham J. Domb
10:40 AM	209	High throughput approaches to biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery Daniel G. Anderson
11:10 AM	210	Effect of drug characteristics on the degradation rate of polymeric matrices Nily Dan, Kayla Metzger, Kathryn Werner, Steven J Siegel
11:40 AM	211	Biodegradable polymers for cancer therapy Abraham J. Domb, Shikanov Ariella, Boris Vaisman, Abraham Nyska, Yair Levy

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