Engineering Technologies and Clinical Translation

Mansoor M. Amiji is the Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. Dr. Amiji has edited a number of books and is a frequently published author. His research focuses on the synthesis of novel polymeric materials for medical and pharmaceutical applications, drug delivery systems and nanomedical technologies, and his contributions in research advising, grant reviews for various organizations and editorial work for journals are invaluable. Dr. Lara Milane is Assistant Teaching Professor in Biotechnology at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. She is interested in Mitochondrial Medicine. She is working on developing nanomedicines for a range of diseases (cancer, neurodegenerative disease, aging) that manipulate mitochondria for therapeutic outcomes. Dr. Milane was trained as a National Cancer Institute/ National Science Foundation Nanomedicine Fellow at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Dr. Milane is an intuitive cancer biologist with research interests in developing translational nanomedicines that exploit the hallmarks of cancer.

1. Engineering solutions for generating CAR-T cells 2. Engineered microbes for cancer immunotherapy 3. Biodegradable scaffolds for priming the immune cells 4. Biomaterials and devices for immunotherapy 5. Engineered devices for tumor immune modulation 6. Microfluidic devices for cancer immunotherapy and vaccination 7. Tumor-on-a-chip devices for immunotherapy 8. Engineered 3D models for cancer immunotherapy 9. Opportunities and challenges of using nanotechnology for cancer immunotherapy 10. Stromal modulation to improve immunotherapy response in cancer 11. Mapping the tumor immune microenvironment 12. Personalized cancer immunotherapy 13. Image-guided cancer immunotherapy 14. Clinical approval process and challenges for cancer immunotherapies