Microfluidics for Pharmaceutical Applications

Prof. Santos (D.Sc. Tech., Chem. Eng.) is a Full Professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Groningen. He is also Research Director at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Pharmacy. Prof. Santos is also the co-founder of the startups Capsamedix Oy and Medixmicro Oy, and Coordinator of MSCA-ITN P4 FIT network in tendon repair (~4.1 m€). He holds Visiting Professorships at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and University of Tartu. Prof. Santos research interests include the development of nanoparticles/nanomedicines and biomaterials for biomedical applications, particularly cancer and heart diseases. His lab makes the unique bridge between medical engineering, pharmaceutical nanotechnology and tissue engineering by combining unique techniques to develop novel therapeutic formulations for translation into the clinic. He is also in Editorial board member of several international journals, and Associate Editor of Nano Select, Smart Materials in Medicine, and Drug Delivery and Translational Research, among others. Prof. Santos has received prestigious awards/grants, for example, the "Talent Prize in Science" in 2010 attributed by the Portuguese Government, ERC Starting Grant in 2013 and ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2018, Young Researcher Award in 2013 attributed by Faculty of Pharmacy, the Academy of Finland Award for Social Impact in 2016, and the CRS Young Investigator Award 2021. Dongfei Liu is a Postdoctoral Fellow and PI at the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, University of Helsinki, Finland. He has developed a versatile and robust microfluidics platform to prepare extremely stable drug nanocrystals. Hongbo Zhang is an Assistant Professor at Åbo Akademi, Finland. His research focuses on nanostructured materials prepared by microfluidics for drug delivery applications.

• Section I: Principle of microfluidics 1. Lab-on-a-Chip technology and microfluidics2. Fluid properties and hydrodynamics of microfluidic systems3. Diffusion and mixing in microfluidic device4. Microfluidic production of multicomponent multiple emulsionsSection II: Microfluidics for drug delivery applications 5. Microfabrication and Microfluidic Devices for Drug Delivery6. Lab-on-a-chip preparation routes for organic nanomaterials for drug delivery7. Microfluidic mixing and devices for preparing nanoparticulate drug delivery systems8. Microfluidic production of inorganic nanomaterials for biomedical applications9. Lab-on-a-chip synthesis of microparticles for drug encapsulation and controlled release10. Microfluidic technologies for local drug delivery11. Droplet-based microfluidics for cell encapsulation and delivery12. Antibody discovery using microfluidic systems13. Single-cell screening using microfluidic systems Section III: Microfluidics for analysis and drug delivery14. Lab-on-a-chip techniques for high throughput proteomics and drug discovery15. Microfluidics for chemical analysis and sample manipulation for pharmaceutical applicationsSection IV: Future prospective and commercialization of microfluidic techniques16. Future of microfluidics in research and in the market