PMSEWednesday, 13 September 2006

1:30 PM-5:30 PM San Francisco Marriott -- Salon B1, Oral
Polymers for Biomedical Applications
Charactrization of Polymeric Biomaterials
Organizer:Ankur S. Kulshrestha
Presiding:Peter Maziarz
Organizer, Presiding:Anil Mahapatro
1:30 PMAnalysis of medical implant device polymers by MALDI and ESI Mass spectrometry methods
Peter Maziarz, Kelly Chen, Yunmai Xu, Yijun Lu
1:50 PMUse of synthetic absorbable biomaterials as scaffolds in tissue engineering
Dhanuraj S. Shetty
2:10 PMReducing the complexity of analyzing cell-material interactions using combinatorial fabrication methods
Matthew L. Becker, Nathan D. Gallant, Kristen E. Roskov, Joachim Kohn, Eric J. Amis
2:30 PMNovel method for characterization of poly(D,L-lactide) degradation based on dielectric spectroscopy
Mohammad K. Hassan, Jeffrey S. Wiggins, Robson F. Storey, Kenneth A. Mauritz
2:50 PMBeyond trial and error: Tools required to advance engineering design principles for polymeric scaffolds
Lori A. Henderson, Matt J. Kipper, Tithi Dutta Roy
3:10 PMIntermission
3:30 PMCharacterization of the hydrophobic core environment in three amphiphilic drug delivery polymers by coumarin 153 fluorescence
Karen E. Steege, Jinzhong Wang, Kathryn E. Uhrich, Edward W. Castner Jr.
3:50 PMCombinatorial characterization of micropatterned polyurethane cell-biomaterial interfaces
Gracy A Wingkono, J. Carson Meredith
4:10 PMDesigning porous scaffolds of aliphatic polyester copolymers
Ann-Christine Albertsson, Peter Plikk
4:30 PMDetermination of minimum contact lens oxygen transmissibility for maintaining corneal health
Mahendra Chhabra, Clayton J. Radke
4:50 PMAFM study of block copolymer coatings for biomedical applications
Jinping Dong, Greg D. Haugstad
5:10 PMEffect of preparation methods on properties of chitosan/poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels
Guanghua He Sr., Hua Zheng Sr.

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