Emerging Therapies

Session Chair(s)

• GH

  Geelsu Hwang, PhD (he/him/his)

  Associate Professor
  University of Pennsylvania, United States
• RW

  Richard Willson, MS, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  University of Houston
  Houston, Texas, United States

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Limei Tian, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Associate professor
  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas, United States
• 

  Donghui Zhu, PhD

  Professor
  Stony Brook University

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EST

  Optimized combinatorial strategy for Age- and Obese-dependent Treatments COVID-19 Recurrence
  

  Presenting Author: Jiayu Liao, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside

  Co-Author: Song Zhai (he/him/his) – Merck

  Co-Author: Xinping Cui – University of California
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST

  Oral Administration of a Nano-Enabled Anti-antibiotic Prevents Vancomycin Resistance in the GI Tract
  

  Presenting Author: Roya Koshani, Dr. (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Shang-Lin Yeh – The Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Landon G. vom Steeg, PhD, MSPH (he/him/his) – Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

  Co-Author: Mica L. Pitcher – The Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Min Ju Park – The Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Robert J. Woods – Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

  Co-Author: Andrew read – The Pennsylvania State University

  Primary Investigator: Amir Sheikhi, PhD (he/him/his) – Penn State University
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST

  THP-1 Monocyte Extracellular Vesicles Exhibit Antibiofilm Effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  

  Presenting Author: Talia Solomon (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Casey Byrne (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, College Park

  Co-Author: Seth S. Boledovic (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park

  Co-Author: Eila Flumen (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, College Park

  Last Author: Steven Jay, PhD – University of Maryland
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EST

  A new strategy to combat biofilm antibiotic tolerance by targeting bacterial dormancy
  

  Presenting Author: Sweta Roy, PhD – Syracuse University

  Co-Author: Zeynep Cakmak – Syracuse University

  Co-Author: Shikha Nangia, PhD (she/her/hers) – Syracuse Univeristy

  Co-Author: Guirong Wang – Upstate Medical University

  Co-Author: Salma Mahmoud – Upstate Medical University

  Co-Author: Masha Sadeghzadeh – Upstate Medical University

  Co-Author: Juntao Luo – Upstate Medical University

  Primary Investigator: Dacheng Ren, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering,Syracuse University
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

  Antimicrobial blue light-bathing therapy for wound infection control
  

  Presenting Author: Jie Hui, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Wonjoon Moon – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Pu-Ting Dong (she/her/hers) – The ADA Forsyth Institute

  Co-Author: Carolina dos Anjos – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Laisa Negri – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Hao Yao – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Ying Wang – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Joshua Tam, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Tianhong Dai (he/him/his) – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: R. Rox Anderson – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Jeremy Goverman – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Jeffrey Gelfand – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Last Author: Seok-Hyun Yun – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Dual plasmonic nanocages for photothermal ablation and photoacoustic imaging of skin and oral infections
  

  Presenting Author: Maryam Hajfathalian, PhD – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: David Cormode – University of pennsylvania