Thursday June 23rd

Thursday June 23rd               
VENUE: Pieterskerk, Kloksteeg 16, Leiden
 08:00 - end
Registration Desk Available 
Session III: Drug delivery to the brain from a clinical perspective [sponsored by Pfizer]
  Chairs: Tali Siegal (Hadassah Hebrew University of Medical Centre, IL) &
  Pieter Gaillard (to-BBB technologies BV, NL)
 08:30 - 09:00 Tali Siegal (Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centre, IL)
  Crossing the barrier and conquest brain tumors: what are down-to-earth expectations?
 09:00 - 09:20 David Gray (Pfizer Inc, USA)
  Attempts to coax reluctant molecules into the brain parenchyma
 09:20 - 09:40 William Banks (University of Washington, USA) 
  Use of endogenous characteristics of the blood-brain barrier to deliver proteins and  
  antisense molecules
 09:40 - 10:00 Ryan Watts (Neurodegeneration Labs, Genentech Inc, USA)
  Getting antibodies across the blood-brain barrier to target CNS disease
   
 10:00 - 10:30 Break
   
 10:30 - 10:45   Nadia Caram-Salas (Institue for Biological Sciences, CAN)
  Brain delviery of analgesic peptides using the blood-brain barrier-transmigrating single domain antibody, FC5
 10:45 - 11:00  Pieter Gaillard (to-BBB technologies BV, NL)
  Development of glutathione pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (2B3-101) for the treatment of brain metastases from breast cancer
 11:00 - 11:15 Ralf Rempe (University of Muenster, DE)
  Transport of Poly(n-butylcyano-acrylate) (PBCA) nanoparticles across the blood-brain barrier in vitro and their influence on barrier integrity
 11:15 - 11:30 Reinhard Gabathuler (biOasis Technologies Inc, CAN)
  Development of a new Peptide Vector (p97) for Delivery of Therapeutic Compaounds across the BBB to treat CNS diseases
 11:30 - 11:45 Ulrich Bickel (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA)
  Transcytosis of antibodies to MHC Class I at the blood-brain barrier
 11:45 - 12:00 Adrien Roux (Merck-Serono, CH)
  Development of an antibody-based delivery vehicle for delivering therapeutic molecules into the CNS
   
 12:00 - 14:30 Lunch and posters
  Poster session II (presenters at posters at 12:30)
   
Session IV:
Inflammation at the blood-brain barrier
  Chairs: Alexandre Prat (CHUM Research Centre, Notre-Dame Hospital, CAN) &
  Elga de Vries (VU University Medical Center, NL)
 14:30 - 15:00 Alexandre Prat (CHUM Research Centre, Notre-Dame Hospital, CAN)
  [sponsored by Dutch MS Foundation] 
  Brain morphogens and regulation of blood-brain barrier function
 15:00 - 15:20
Frauke Zipp (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE)
  In vivo imaging of T cells in chronic neuroinflammation
 15:20 - 15:40
Elga de Vries (VU University Medical Center, NL)
  Inflammation at the blood-brain barrier
 15:40 - 16:00
Ignacio Romero (The Open University, UK)
  The role of microRNAs in inflammation at the blood-brain barrier
   
16:00 - 16:30
 
Break
   
 16:30 - 16:45
Arsalan S. Haqqani (Institute for Biological Sciences, CAN)
  Reconstructing in silivo Intercellular Networks between hCMEC/D3 and Th17 cells to identify Potential Therapeutic Targets of CNS Inflammation
 16:45 - 17:00  Helen Stolp (University of Oxford, UK)
  Vascular gene profile during cerebral inflammatory injury
 17:00 - 17:15 Daniela Virgintino (University of Bari School of Medicine, IT)
  BBB damage and OPCs proliferation in cerebral cortex: Are they related events during the plastic brain response to demyelination occurring in EAE?
 17:15 - 17:30  Monique Stins (Johns Hopkins, USA)
  Plasmodium falciparum induces a highly proinflammatory environment at the blood-brain barrier: implications for neurological dysfunction
 17:30 - 17:45  Chantal Appeldoorn (to-BBB technologies BV, NL)
  Enhanced brain delivery of liposomal methylprednisolone is beneficial for the treatment of neuroinflammation in EAE
 17:45 - 18:00) Daniel Anthony (University of Oxford, UK
  Endogenous micro particles initiate the acute phase response to brain injury