Chairs: Prof Alastair Stewart, Centre Director of ARC CPTT, UoM
Dr Simon Foster, Bellberry-Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellow, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
1.30pm Welcome and introduction, including Acknowledgement of Country – Dr Delphine Denoyer, ARC Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies (ARC CPTT) Centre Manager, The University of Melbourne (UoM)
1.35pm “Engineering Drug Discovery and Development, Technologies Supporting the FDA Modernization Act 2.0” – Prof Alastair Stewart, President of the Asia Pacific Federation of Pharmacologists (APFP) and Centre Director of ARC CPTT, UoM
1.45pm Focus Presentation #1: “Advancing MPS and Combinatorial NAMs Towards Regulatory Acceptance and Global Utility” – Dr Danilo Tagle, Director, Office of Special Initiatives at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2.05pm “Receptor-Heteromer Investigation Technology in the drug development process” – Prof Kevin Pfleger, ARC CPTT Centre Deputy Director, The University of Western Australia (UWA)
2.15pm Focus Presentation #2: “Engineering a Microfluidic Blood-Brain-Barrier on a Chip Model” – Prof Nico Voelcker, ARC CPTT Centre Deputy Director, Monash University
2.35pm “Advanced 3D Cell Culture Platform for Recapitulating Complex Tissues” – Dr Chia-Chi Chien, Science Leader, Advanced Ex vivo Biosystems, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP), CSIRO
2.50pm Focus Presentation #3: “Multi-organ MPS for Applications in Drug Testing” – Prof Yi-Chin Toh, Head, Micro Tissue Engineering, Queensland University of Technology
3.10pm Early Career Researchers (ECR) Focus-On Session
“Multiplexed Perfusion System for Physiological Emulation of Biological Cultures” – Dr Bryan Gao, Research Fellow, ARC CPTT, UoM
“An End User Perspective of the Perfusion System: Application to Circadian Testing”– Ms Jana Zielinski, ARC CPTT AffiliatePhD Student, UoM
Workshop finishes at 3:30pm