The COLOTAN 4th Symposium
TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
Current status, emerging techniques and blue sky thinking
10th January 2024
Cork, Ireland
Location: School of Pharmacy, UCC / LG52 / LG01, University College Cork
Session 1: Targeted Drug Delivery in the GIT – Current State of the Art
Chair: Brendan Griffin
8:45am – 9:00am
9:00am – 9:45am
Gut feelings 2.0: Navigating Drug Absorption and Delivery in the 3D frontier
Uppsala University
09:45am - 10:30am
Evaluation of the Enteric Delivery Performance of a Two-layer Functional Capsule
Lonza Capsules & Health Ingredients
Session 2: Emergent platforms in regional drug delivery
Chair: Joey O’Shea
11:00am – 11:45am
Oral delivery of peptide drugs – impact of dosage form in preclinical studies
Prof. Hanne Mørck Nielsen
University of Copenhagen
11:45am – 12:30pm
Drug delivery to the large intestine with xyloglucan-based tablets: In vitro, in vivo, in silico
Prof. Georgios Imanidis
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
12:30pm – 13:15pm
Lunch Break
13:15pm – 14:00pm
Inflamed Gut Feelings: Story of Crohn Disease and Implications for Bioavailability and Bioequivalence
University of Manchester & Certara
14:00pm – 14:45pm
Engineering functional nanocarriers for diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases
Associate Prof. Alexandra Teleki
Uppsala University
Session 3: Novel targets and therapeutics in gastrointestinal disease
Chair: Caitriona O’Driscoll
15:15pm - 16:00pm
Gut Feelings: Targeting the Brain through the Gastrointestinal Tract
University College Cork & APC Microbiome Ireland
16:00pm – 16:45pm
Do we really understand the colon for drug delivery? – A gastroenterologist view
University College Cork & APC Microbiome Ireland
16:45pm – 17:00pm
Closing
Prof. Brendan Griffins
UCC