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SUMMARY:EPFL BioE Talks SERIES  "Engineering Next-Generation Drug Delivery
  Systems for Therapeutic Proteins in Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Immu
 notherapy"
DTSTART:20221128T160000
DTEND:20221128T170000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Priscilla Briquez\, Assistant Professor\, Medical Center\, U
 niversity of Freiburg (DE)\nWEEKLY EPFL BIOE TALKS SERIES\n\nAbstract:\nPr
 otein engineering is a very powerful tool to improve clinical delivery of 
 therapeutic protein drugs. Indeed\, the efficacy of a drug does not only r
 ely on its intrinsic bioactivity\, but is also strongly modulated by its i
 nteractions within the microenvironment\, as well as by its ability to rea
 ch the correct receptors and cellular compartments in targeted cells. In t
 his lecture\, we will discuss how protein engineering and drug delivery sy
 stems can substantially increase therapeutic effects of protein drugs\, ba
 sed on selected examples from regenerative medicine and cancer immunothera
 py applications. More specifically\, we will focus on the engineering of i
 nteractions between growth factors and the extracellular matrix to enhance
  tissue healing\, and the delivery of antigen to improve immunotherapy for
  melanoma cancer. \n\nBio:\nPriscilla Briquez received her master’s deg
 ree in Bioengineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 
 (EPFL) in Switzerland in 2011. She then continued her studies as a PhD stu
 dent in the laboratory of Prof. Jeffrey A. Hubbell at EPFL\, and specialis
 ed herself in protein engineering for applications in regenerative medicin
 e. Her PhD work got awarded by the Institute of Bioengineering Award in 20
 15 and the EPFL Thesis Award in 2017. During her PhD\, Priscilla co-funded
  and presided the Association of PhD Student in Life Sciences (ADSV\, EPFL
 ) and was involved in the school activities as a PhD student representativ
 e. After her PhD graduation in 2016\, she moved with the Hubbell laborator
 y in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at University of Chicago (Uni
 ted States of America)\, where she continued her post-doctoral research
  in the field of immunoengineering and cancer immunotherapy. Priscilla h
 as recently been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Medical Cente
 r - University of Freiburg in Germany. Her laboratory works in molecular
  immunoengineering for cancer and regenerative medicine. \n\nZoom link (w
 ith one-time registration for the whole series) for attending remotely: ht
 tps://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks\n\n\nInstructions for 1st-year Ph.D. studen
 ts who are under EDBB’s mandatory seminar attendance rule:\nIF you are n
 ot attending in-person in the room\, please make sure to\n\n	send D. Reinh
 ard a note before noon on seminar day\, informing that you plan to attend 
 the talk online\, and\n	be signed in on Zoom with a recognizable user name
  (not a pseudonym making it difficult or impossible to be identified).\n\n
 Students attending the seminar in-person should collect a confirmation sig
 nature after the talk - please print your own signature sheet beforehand (
 71 kB pdf available for download here).\n\n 
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717 https://go.epfl.ch/
 EPFLBioETalks
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