Delivery of Therapeutics for Biogerontological Interventions

Dr. Wing-Fu Lai received his MSc degree in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology from the City University of Hong Kong, and earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Professor in School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds. He is also an Honorary Professor at Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital. Dr. Lai has been qualified as a Licensed Pharmacist and a Registered Dietitian in People's Republic of China, in which he has also been accredited as “Overseas High-caliber Personnel” by Shenzhen Municipal People's Government. Dr. Lai is a Registered Nutritionist in the UK, and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, and has received his Certified Food Scientist credential from the International Food Science Certification Commission in the United States. His research interests focus on the development of functional polymer materials for food and pharmaceutical applications, dietary interventions, prebiotics and the modulation of the gut microbiota. Dr. Lai has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for over 110 international journals.

• 1. Theoretical frameworks of lifespan prolongation 2. Delivery of therapeutics for regenerative innovations: an overview Section II: From Plans to Technologies3. Design of cyclodextrin-based molecular probes, and the potential use in anti-aging medicine4. Fabrication of polymeric vectors for gene therapy of age-related diseases5. Design of upconversion nanoparticles for theranostic interventions in anti-aging medicine6. Preparation of hydrogel-based nanoparticulate systems for biogerontological interventions 7. Electrospray techniques to engineer microgels for multi-drug therapy of age-related diseases8. Microfluidic methods for gene therapy of age-related diseases9. Methods to apply cyclodextrins for gene therapy in anti-aging medicine10. Manipulation of protein kinases for interventive biogerontology 11. Modulation of microRNA expression for tissue regeneration12. Hydrogel-mediated delivery of herbal medicines to combat aging13. Adenosine triphosphate as a potential mediator of the aging process