Main Topics

1. Innovative polymers for controlled drug delivery
2. Development of  stimuli-sensitive (such as pH-, thermo-, reduction-, and enzyme-sensitive) polymers and nano-vehicles; controlled drug delivery; intracellular drug delivery; targeted drug delivery
3. Novel hydrogels for protein and cell delivery
4. Design of biocompatible, injectable, and/or in-situ forming hydrogels; biodegradable hydrogels for controlled protein delivery; hydrogels as three dimensional tissue scaffolds.
5. Multifunctional gene delivery systems
6. Novel design of biodegradable polymeric gene carriers; targeted and/or intracellular delivery of nucleic acids including siRNA, plasmid DNA and antisense oligonucleotides.
7. Innovative polymer-based diagnostic systems
8. Development of long-circulating biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles, fluorescent nanoparticles, quantum dots, gold nanoparticles/rods, and carbon nanotubes; design and applications of biochips.
9. Advanced polymers for tissue engineering
10. Design of bioactive porous scaffolds; cell-biomaterials interactions; stem cells; tissue engineering of bone, cartilage, skin, etc.