Materials Design Challenges for Biomedical Applications

Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025
8:30AM registration and breakfast opens
9AM - session begins with the workshop ending at 3PM

Register here! 

This year’s workshop will focus on materials challenges in biomedical applications and how fundamental materials research can contribute to enhancing efficacy and functionality of devices, delivery systems and therapeutics. Topics will include areas such as: 

• New approaches for precisely engineering the structure and function of poloxamer hydrogels for non-invasive therapeutic delivery
• Interfacial rheology of surfactants and their application in the lungs
• Harnessing albumin hitchhiking as a biomaterial delivery strategy for mucosal vaccines
• Biodegradable and implantable elastomers
• An injectable on-demand dissolvable (IODD) polymers for drug delivery
• Designing novel biodegradable polymers for drug delivery
• Tackling materials design challenges through collaboration with the Bakken Medical Devices Center
• Ensuring Material Biostability and Biocompatibility for Chronically Implanted Medical Devices
• Understanding small crystallinity changes in PET affecting mechanical function

We will end the day with a tour of the UMN College of Science and Engineering’s Materials Characterization Facility.

Review the schedule and read abstracts!

We will provide a light breakfast and boxed lunch for industry attendees and faculty; please be sure to indicate your lunch choice so we have an accurate count for the order. Registration and breakfast will open at 8:30AM; the first session will begin at 9AM. The workshop will end at approximately 3PM. 

IPRIME workshops bring together experts from both industry and academia on focused topics of mutual interest. This workshop is free and open to IPRIME member companies, invited guests, and University of Minnesota faculty, students, and staff. Registration is required. 

Prospective IPRIME members interested in attending as guests should contact me directly at [email protected] or 612-626-9834.