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15th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases
Focus Topic: Precision Medicine
November 16 - 18, 2016 - Sonoma, California

Student/Fellow Presentations

 
 

Thursday, November 17, 2016


 
 
William S. Boyle, M.S.
Grace G. Bushnell, M.S.
 
 
William S. Boyle, M.S.
(University of Minnesota)
“Transfection of Primary Fibroblasts and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells with Trehalose-Based Polymers: Plasmid Size Affects Delivery”

Grace G. Bushnell, M.S.
(University of Michigan)
“Lentiviral Delivery from Biomaterial Scaffolds to Detect, Treat, and Study Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis”
 
 
Bethany P. Gray, Ph.D.
Luis Tecedor, Ph.D.
 
 
Bethany P. Gray, Ph.D.
(Duke University)
“Development of an Antidote-Controlled RNA Probe for Molecular Thrombi Imaging”
Luis Tecedor, Ph.D.
(The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
“Gene Therapy for Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis in Large Animal Models”

 
 
Jiehua Zhou, Ph.D.
 
 
Jiehua Zhou, Ph.D.
(City of Hope National Medical Center)
“Developing Cell Type-Specific Aptamer-based RNA Nano-conjugates for Targeted Therapy”
 
 
 
 
 

Friday, November 18, 2016


 
 
Bradley A. Hamilton, B.S.
Hillary K. Kao, B.S.
 
 
Bradley A. Hamilton, B.S.
(University of Iowa)
“An Alternative Route of Infection for a Novel AAV”

Hillary K. Kao, B.S.
(CSU-Sacramento and University of California, Davis)
“The Effects of the Extracellular Matrix on Human Induced Pluripotent-Derived Cardiomyocytes”
 
 
Nicole C. Madfis, M.S.
Saloomeh Mokhtari, Ph.D.
 
 
Nicole C. Madfis, M.S.
(University of California, Merced)
“Generation of Directed Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Vascular Endothelial Sub-phenotypes for Vascular Testing Platforms”

Saloomeh Mokhtari, Ph.D.
(University of California, San Francisco)
“Ontogeny of the Hematopoietic and Immune Systems in Developing Rhesus Monkeys - Toward Applications for In utero Transplantation”
 
 
Silveli Suzuki-Hatano, Ph.D.
 
 
Silveli Suzuki-Hatano, Ph.D.
(University of Florida)
“Pre-Clinical Studies to Develop Gene Therapy for Barth Syndrome”