2016: Polymers for Health and Wellbeing
Back Row: Doctor Jeanette Jones, Professor Gareth Price, Professor Dave Weitz, Professor Harm-Anton Klok , Professor Steve Broaching
Middle Row: Doctor Alberto Saiani , Professor Martina Stenzel, Professor Ana Aguiar-Ricardo, Professor Peter Olmsted, Doctor Paola Carbone , Professor Juan de Pablo
Front Row: Professor Aline Miller, Doctor Jason Harcup, Professor Tony Ryan, Professor Kevin Shakesheff, Professor Anna Balasz, Professor Brent Murray.
Inset: Professor Neil Cameron.
HPRG 56th Meeting
Sunday 24th April - Thursday 28th April 2016
Shrigley Hall Hotel, Pott Shrigley, Cheshire
Conference Chairs: Prof. Aline Miller and Dr. Janette Jones
Speakers (in alphabetical order)
| 1 | Professor Ana Aguiar-Ricardo (University of Lisboa) "POxylated surfaces: How to design a 'green' soft killer" |
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| 2 | Dr Paola Carbone (University of Manchester) "Multi-scale Modelling of Polymers at the Soft-Bio Interface" |
| 3 | Professor Juan de Pablo (University of Chicago) "Protein/DNA Based Materials" |
| 4 | Dr Jason Harcup (Unilever) "Next Generation Personal Care Through the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry" |
5 | Professor David Kaplan (Tufts) "Bioengineered Silk Proteins for New Biomaterials" |
| 6 | Professor Harm-Anton Klok (Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne) "Engineering Biointerfaces Using Controlled Radical Polymerisation" |
| 7 | Professor Brent Murray (University of Leeds) "Colloids / Biopolymers Complexes for Delivery of Functional Foods" |
| 8 | Dr Peter Olmsted (GeorgeTown University) "Modelling the Stratum Corneum Barrier in Mammalian Skin" |
| 9 | Dr James Philp (OCED) TBC |
| 10 | Dr Alberto Saiani (University of Manchester) "β-sheet Forming Peptides; from self-assembly to functional biomaterials" |
| 11 | Professor Kevin Shakesheff (University of Nottingham) "5 Polymers I Wish Existed" |
| 12 | Professor Martina Stenzel (University of New South Wales) "Polymer Nanoparticles For Drug Delivery" |
| 13 | Professor Gordon Wallace (University of Wollongong) "Intelligent Polymer Systems for Medical Bionics" |
| 14 | Professor David Weitz (Harvard University) "Biomechanics and Motor Control" |
During the meeting Professor Anna Balzas was presented with the RSC S F Boys – A Rahman Prize
The High Polymer Research Group is grateful to the following companies and organisations for their support of our 56th annual conference:
GOLD sponsor - High Polymer 56:
INFINEUM Formulating, manufacturing and marketing fuel and lubricant additives.
Sponsors of Polymers for Health and Wellbeing - High Polymer 56:
Agilent technologies - analytical equipment, genomics, reagents and therapeutics.
AkzoNobel is a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals.
ALIAXIS Manufacturing and distributing plastic fluid handling systems for residential and commercial construction, industrial and public infrastructure.
ASHLAND: Specialty chemicals.
Bruker: leading analytical instrumentation.
Elsevier: information solutions.
FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants for aqueous inkjet inks, pigment dispersions and dyes.
UNILEVER: Foods, personal and household care products.