PMSETuesday, April 8, 2008
1:00 PM-5:05 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Grand Salon 21, Oral
Controlling Cell Functions Through Polymer Synthesis and Engineering
Novel Polymer Synthesis
Organizers:Jason A. Burdick
Ali Khademhosseini
Presiding:Arthur J. Coury
Organizer, Presiding:Xinqiao Jia
1:00 PM Introductory Remarks
1:05 PM200Controlling polypeptide interactions with cells and tissues by design
Timothy J. Deming, Daniel T. Kamei, Eric P. Holowka, Victor Sun, Chu-Ya Yang, Michael V. Sofroniew, BingBing Song
1:35 PM201Biodegradable thermoplastic elastomer synthesis and processing for improved biofunctionality
William R. Wagner, Jianjun Guan, Yi Hong, John Stankus, Priya Ramaswami, Zuwei Ma
2:05 PM202Synthesis of an electroactive polymer with degradabe linkages for tissue engineering applications
Nathalie K. Guimard, Jonathan L. Sessler, Christine E. Schmidt
2:25 PM203Modulating smooth muscle cell response with novel tunable inorganic-organic hydrogels
Qu Xin, Allen Bulick, Cody A. Schoener, Dany Munoz, Yaping Hou, Melissa A. Grunlan, Mariah S. Hahn
2:45 PM204Top-down, bottom-up fabrication of a structurally asymmetric membrane
Eric E. Nuxoll, Marc A. Hillmyer, Ronald A. Siegel
3:15 PM205Design and synthesis of functional biomaterials
David Putnam
3:45 PM206Architecture of polymer-drug conjugate controls in vivo fate and efficacy
Ashutosh Chilkoti
4:15 PM207Activity and biocompatibility of poly(vinyl pyridine)-based copolymers
Thomas R. Stratton, Bruce Applegate, Jeffrey P. Youngblood
4:35 PM208Stem cells, biomimetic polymers, and the promise of regenerative medicine
Kevin E. Healy

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008