Wednesday, 2 November 2005: 8:30 AM-11:15 AM

General Moorman (Peabody Hotel)

Symposium (SYMG)

Biomedical Applications of Polymers

Organizer:Richard D. Redfearn
Presider:Richard D. Redfearn
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
Richard D. Redfearn
8:35 AMPyrolysis GC-MS and transmission electron microscopy used to characterize annealing effects in UHMWPE
Richard D. Redfearn, Terese A. Holm, Carl W. Carlson, Ann M. Viano, Karyn E. Spence, Matt V. Shanks, M. Andrew Scott, Asit K. Ray
8:55 AMCharacterization of Structure/Property Relationships in the Fungal Cell Wall Carbohydrate (1-3)-beta-D-Glucan
Douglas W. Lowman
9:15 AMSynthesis, Chelate Control, and Characterization of AP5280, a Novel Polymer Platinum Conjugate in Clinical Development
Don R. Stewart, Jeremy E. Jacob, Kevin F. Shannon, E. Howard Callahan, John V. St. John, Jason A. Troutman, Paul Sood, John R. Rice, David P Nowotnik
9:35 AMBreak
9:55 AMSynthesis of Novel Antibacterial Polymers Containing Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
Bekir Dizman, Mohamed O. Elasri, Lon J. Mathias
10:15 AMExploring the Chemistry of Polymer Platinum Conjugates: Effects of Higher Molecular Weight Carriers, Other Polymers, Chelators, Linkers, and cis-Diamines
Don R. Stewart, John V. St. John, Paul Sood, Sergiy Shevchuk, Dan Q. Nguyen, Jeremy E. Jacob, Jason A. Troutman, John R. Rice, E. Howard Callahan, Kevin F. Shannon, David P. Nowotnik
10:35 AMNanofibers Via Electrospinning Process from Biodegradable Polymer
Gerardo A. Montero, Juan P. Hinestroza, Martin W. King, Jessica M. Gluck
10:55 AMElectrospun Bioactive Nanocomposite Scaffolds of Polycaprolatone and Hydroxyapatite
Derrick Dean, Sunita Jagani, Kolanda Johnson, Moncy Jose, Vinoy Thomas, Yogesh Vohra, Susan Bellis, Elijah Nyairo

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