email invitation

Dear Dr,

We would like to invite you to deliver an invited presentation at the NCI workshop on ‘Enhancing Systemic Drug Delivery to Tumors’, which will be held virtually on April 27-28, 2021. This workshop is organized under Cancer Moonshot initiative (https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative), which aims to accelerate cancer research and to make more therapies available to more patients.

Cancer treatments are continuously improving, however, delivering drugs effectively and controlling their biodistribution, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics still poses significant challenges. Several methods to enhance the delivery and accumulation of drugs to a tumor have been developed and used with varying success.

The goal of this upcoming workshop on ‘Enhancing Systemic Drug Delivery to Tumors’ will be to assess currently available drug delivery technologies and consider strategies for their further improvement. To facilitate an effective discussion, we plan on organizing two ‘orthogonal’ presentation and discussion sessions covering 1) different cancer treatment modalities and their requirements on delivery approaches and 2) available delivery methodologies and their suitability to support current and emerging cancer therapies.

We will be grateful, if you could focus your talk on …... Your 25 minutes (including 5 minutes for questions) talk is tentatively scheduled for ………….

We hope that you will be able to join us for this important discussion and will be looking forward to your response and participation.

With kind regards,

Organizing Committee

Rose Aurigemma, PhD, Developmental Therapeutics Program/Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis/NCI

Piotr Grodzinski, PhD, Cancer Imaging Program/Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis/NCI

Lalitha Shankar, MD, PhD, Cancer Imaging Program/Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis/NCI

Stephan Stern, PhD, Nanotechnology Characterization Lab/Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research