Ghodsieh and Jianhui attended first Controlled Released Asia meeting  which was held in Singapore,  24-25 Sep. 2018.

 
Prof. Ying Chau, Dr Rong Ni, Laurence, Andrea and Grace attended the controlled released society annual meeting at New York, NY, USA on 22-24 July 2018.
Presentations:
Prof. Chau:
Engineering hydrogels for ocular drug delivery
Dr Ni:
Nature-inspired peptide-based virus mimics for plasmid DNA delivery
Laurence:
Tunable protein release from injectable, hydrolasable intraocular hydrogel depot over multiple months
Posters:
Grace:
1-Effect of The surface Charge Of intravitreal Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) On their intraocular distribution
2-Investigation of the Impacts of pegylation on The intraocular distribution Of The intravitreal nanocarriers
Andrea:
Intracellular uptake mechanism of multi-ligand polymeric nanoparticles

​Grace attended 2nd bioengineering and translational Medicine Conference on Oct 28-29. Held in Hilton, Minneapolis by SBE (society for biological Engineering), AICHE. 
Presentation title: Investigating the Impact of the Surface Properties of Intravitreally Injected Carriers on Their Retinal Bio-Distribution in a Single Nanoplatform

Ghodsieh gave birth to a baby girl (Sidratalmuntaha  سدرة المنتهی  ) on 26 Sep. 2017.

​Woojin and Emmie presented their posters at the 17th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE) Congress, held in Hong Kong Convention Centre (23 to 27 August, 2017). 

Prof. Ying Chau, Dr Rong Ni, Dr Yu Yu, Laurence, Andrea and Ghodsieh attended the controlled released society annual meeting at Boston, MA, USA on 16-19 July 2017.
Presentations:
Dr Ni:
Controlling the inter-nanofibril interaction to regulate the morphology and function of peptide/DNA co-assembled nanococoons
Dr Yu:
Release of Avastin from polysaccharides based in situ hydrogel and its therapeutic effect on recurrent choroidal neovascularization model in monkey eyes
Ghodsieh:
Stochastic modeling of macromolecular therapeutics delivery from hydrolytically degradable intracocular hydrogel depot
Posters:
Dr Ni:
Temperature and organic solvent-controlled polymeric nanoparticle morphology through nanoprecipitation
Andrea:
Ligand-modified Polymeric Nanoparticles for Targeting Specific Brain Regions
Laurence:
Controlling Degradation of Injectable Hydrogel Towards A Long-term Intraocular Depot

​Dr Yu Yu attended the Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO 2017) at  BALTIMORE, MARYLAND on 7-11 May 2017