Speaker: Professor Gert Storm, Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Professor in Division of Imaging, University Medical Center Utrecht & Professor in MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Nanomedicine applies nanotechnology to realise specific medical interventions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. One most active sector has been the design of nanoparticles for the targeted delivery and controlled release of chemotherapeutic agents. While significant advances have been made over the years with quite some approved liposomal nanomedicines being available for patient treatment, clinical translation has not progressed as quickly as expected. In this contribution, the current clinical state-of-the-art in this field and the factors determining the pace of clinical translation will be discussed, with a special eye n the challenges ahead of us.

Registration & breakfast at 7.10am, talk begins at 7.40am.