244 th American Chemical Society National Meeting August 19-23, 2012, Philadelphia, PA Materials in Health and Medicine Theme Organizer: Xinqiao Jia University of Delaware 8/23/2011

Theme Organizer Xinqiao Jia Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Affiliated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering Secondary Appointment, Biological Sciences University of Delaware Newark, DE Education: Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical Engineering, MIT, Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2002 BS, Applied Chemistry, Fudan University, China, 1995 Research interest: Biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering

Materials in Health and Medicine Sub-theme: Developmental biology, complexity of biological systems Novel biomaterials (responsive materials, self-assembled materials, new chemistries for materials synthesis) Biomaterials in drug delivery/tissue engineering Biomaterials in imaging and diagnosis In vivo and in vitro responses of materials Micro-fabricated medical devices

The Kavli Foundation Innovations in Chemistry Lecture The Kavli Foundation ( is sponsoring the Kavli Foundation Innovation in Chemistry Lectures for the 2011 – 2013 national meetings. Funding provided by The Kavli Foundation will help: –Support the thematic program of the meeting –Recruit the best keynote speakers –Attract greater attendance to the national meetings The Kavli Lecturer is selected by the Kavli Selection Committee chaired by the ACS- President Elect during the year preceding the national meeting. For the San Diego national meeting in 2012: –ACS President-Elect Bassam Shakhashiri, Kavli Selection Committee Chair –Peter Stang, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Chemical Society –Robert McMahon, Editor, Journal of Organic Chemistry –Peter Senter, Thematic Program Chair for San Diego and Senior Editor, Bioconjugate Chemistry –David Lohse, MPPG Chair –Mark Sessa, COMSCI Representative Similar Kavli Selection Committee, with the addition of Xinqiao Jia, will be assembled after the Denver meeting to select the Kavli Lecturer for the Philadelphia meeting

Bob Langer (MIT) MIT Institute Professor Member of 3 national academies Most cited engineer in history 1,130 articles, 800 issued and pending patents worldwide. Patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 220 pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and medical device companies. Pioneer of the fields of drug delivery and tissue engineering Nanotechnology and biomaterials First circulating nanoparticles Intelligent microchips with nanowells Switchable surfaces Nanoliter-based synthesis approach for creating materials to control stem cell differentiation Proposed Speakers for The Kavli Lecture

Don Ingber (Children’s hospital and Harvard Medical School) Judah Folkman Professor in Vascular Biology Founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering 300 publications and 40 patents Tissue engineering, angiogenesis, cancer, system biology, nanobiotechnology Pioneering contributions to the fields of angiogenesis, tissue engineering, mechanobiology, and systems biology. His work on how blood vessels form led to the development of TNP-470, one of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to enter clinical trials Tensegrity model: a system stabilizes itself mechanically by balancing local compression with continuous tension, fundamental principle in the way living organisms are structured at the nanometer scale Ultra-sensitive clinical diagnostics to nanoscale medical devices, engineered tissues, and biologically-inspired materials for tissue repair and reconstruction Proposed Speakers for The Kavli Lecture

Kristi Anseth (University of Colorado) Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Member, Institute of Medicine Member, National Academy of engineering Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Biomaterials with controlled architecture and chemistries Photo-initiated reactions in the fabrication of biomaterials Stem cell niche, tunable microenvironment, spatial/temporal regulated hydrogels Plenary Symposium, Monday, 3-6 PM

Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University) Member, National Academy of Sciences Member, National academy of engineering Member, Institute of Medicine NIH director’s pioneer award National inventor hall of fame 430 manuscripts, 370 patents and applications Founder of Nanospheres, Nanoink, and Aurasense Most cited chemist in the world President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology Nanoparticle-based materials for biosensing Material's nanochemistry and its biological function in: (1) gene regulation, (2) intracellular detection, (3) extracellular diagnostics, and (4) synthetic high density lipoprotein (HDL).

Mark Davis (Caltech) Member, National academy of sciences Member, National academy of engineering NSF: Alan T. Waterman Award Molecular therapeutics Design and synthesize new polymetric materials that allow assembly with therapeutic molecules. Cyclodextrin-containing polymeric conjugates of camptothecin Targeted delivery of siRNA via self-assembled cyclodextrin polymer-based nanoparticles Two systems currently used in human clinical trials Plenary Symposium, Monday, 3-6 PM

ANYL: –Medical diagnosis/bioimaging –Nanotechnology for biosensing BIOL: –Chemical approaches to the understanding of embryonic development, morphogenesis and angiogenesis BIOT: –Stem cell and regenerative medicine –Biosynthesis/chemoenzymatic synthesis of biomaterials CARB: –Carbohydrate based materials in regenerative medicine CELL: –Biomaterials from natural resources CHAS: –Safety and fate of nanomaterials COLL: –Surface modification of biomaterials –Nanoparticles for drug delivery and bioimaging Relevant technical divisions

COMP: –Modeling of cell-materials interaction –Structure-property relationship of biomaterials –Responsiveness of natural proteins INOR: –Chemistry of bone and dental implant materials –Transition metal catalyzed polymerization MEDI: –Molecular therapeutics ORGN: –Application of new chemoselective chemistries in materials synthesis –Peptide synthesis, assembly and application in medicine PMSE: –Polymers in biomedical applications –Polymeric materials for cell differentiation POLY: –New chemistries for materials synthesis –Synthetic microenvironment for stem cell differentiation Relevant technical divisions