1. Bhagya Abeygunasekara – The University of Western Australia – Intracellular Protein Corona Dynamics of DNA Origami Nanostructures
  2. Jingqu Chen – The University of Melbourne – Bioactive Metal–Organic Nanoparticles: A Versatile Platform for Therapeutic Delivery
  3. Bill Cheng – National Chung-Hsing University – Engineering Immune Cell–Guided Nanomedicine to Reshape the Tumour Microenvironment
  4. Jiuyu Cui – UNSW Sydney – Using Liquid Biopsy to Track Cancer Dynamics in Lab-grown Tissues
  5. Varshini D. Venkata – Children’s Cancer Institute – Development of a 3D ex vivo Bioprinted Immunocompetent Model of Neuroblastoma
  6. Peter Davis – ATA Scientific – The Next Revolution in Sovereign DNA Production isn’t Coming – it’s already here
  7. Fei Deng – UNSW Sydney – Autocatalytic Cas13a Biosensor Enabled by RNA-Nanocircles for Ultrasensitive RNA Detection
  8. Duong Dinh – UNSW Sydney – Photo-responsive Peptide Hydrogel for Spatiotemporal Control of Embryoid Morphogenesis
  9. Shu Geng – UNSW Sydney – High throughput screening of NO-generating polymers via PET-RAFT polymerisation
  10. Zifei Han – UNSW Sydney – Deployable 3D-Printed Vascular Stent with Surface-Catalysed Endogenous Nitric Oxide Generation
  11. Xie (Kate) He – The University of Queensland – Affinity-Tuned Albumin Hitchhiking Extends the Bioorthogonal Capture Window in Pretargeting Radiotheranostics
  12. Åsa Jämting – National Measurement Institute – Building Trust in Particle Size Measurements: the Challenge of Lipid Nanoparticles
  13. Lucy Johnston – UNSW Sydney – Stretchable Nanoporous Thin Film Gold via Liquid-metal-driven Synthesis for Wearable Applications
  14. Jordan Kambanis – The University of Sydney – Lipid Nanoparticle-Extracellular Vesicle Hybrids for Enhanced Delivery to Retinal Cells
  15. Christoph Kugler – University of Vienna – Tri-modal Longitudinal Tomographic Imaging of Tumor Growth in vivo by Nanoparticle-loaded Microcapsules
  16. Elisa Sophia Kulterer – University of Vienna – DNA-stuffer in mRNA-polyplexes Improves Endosomal Escape and Functional mRNA Delivery In Vitro and In Vivo
  17. Hyeon Hae Lee – The University of Melbourne – Towards Predicting Cellular Lipid Nanoparticle Uptake Across Doses with Transferable Kinetics
  18. Jiaying Li – Monash University – Polymer Nanorods Formed by Selectively Hydrolysed Block Co-Poly(2-oxazoline)s: Stimuli-responsive Disassembly and Tuneable Cell Interactions
  19. Shiyao Li – Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute – Engineering Lipid Nanoparticles with Crystalline Mesophases
  20. Jie Lay Lim – UNSW Sydney – Biomimetic Nanomotor in Drug Delivery Towards Pancreatic Cancer
  21. Kang Lin – UNSW Sydney – Synthetic Polymer-Induced Reprogramming Suppresses Malignancy in Cancer Cells
  22. Tesi Liu – Adelaide University – A Novel Pumpless Microphysiological Platform for Long-term Glioblastoma Tissue Slice Culture and Personalized Radiotherapy
  23. Amy Logan – Children’s Cancer Institute – 3D‑Bioprinted Tumouroids for Predictive Drug Delivery Testing
  24. Zihnil Mazrad – Monash University – Design of a Sustainable mRNA Delivery Platform Using Lipid–Polyhydroxyalkanoate Hybrid Nanoparticles
  25. Kelly Mint – Monash University – Chiral Poly(2,4-dialkyl-2-oxazoline) Cryogel Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
  26. Timen Mooren – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Red Blood Cell-Inspired CD47 Proteoliposomes Enable Immune-Evasive Nanocarriers
  27. Reina Ogino (Tanaka) – Showa Medical University – Defect-Engineered TiO₂ for Coupling Biofunction and Electrochemical Stability
  28. James Paoloni – UNSW Sydney – Decoding Endothelial Glycocalyx-nanoparticle Interactions via a Systematic Polymeric Nanoparticle Library and High-content Characterization
  29. Vittorio Picchio – Sapienza University of Rome – Killing of Gold Nanorods-loaded Human Cardiac Fibroblasts Mediated by Photo-thermal Activation
  30. Shakil Polash – RMIT University – Bioinspired Gold Nanoparticles Enhance Cell Adhesion
  31. Alireza Sarkar Lotfabadi – Children’s Cancer Institute – Targeted mRNA–LNPs for In Vivo Generation of CAR T Cells in Syngeneic Mouse Models of Diffuse Midline Glioma
  32. Bram Soliman – UNSW Sydney – Interfacial Stress-driven Drug Resistance is Affected by Breast Cancer Shape
  33. Shevanuja Theivendran – The University of Queensland – Silica Nanoparticle-Mediated Oral DNA Delivery: A pharmacokinetic understanding
  34. Linqing Tian – UNSW Sydney – Controlled Formation of Ultrasmall Nanoparticles with Direct Cytosolic Access
  35. Peilin Tian – UNSW Sydney – Drop-on-demand 3D Bioprinting of Patient-derived Colorectal Cancer Spheroids Enables High-throughput Screening of a CEACAM5-targeted SN-38 ADC
  36. Maria Victorova – The University of Queensland – Enzymatically and Chemically Synthesised mRNA as a Therapeutic Agent
  37. Qiaoyun Wang – UNSW Sydney – PEG–Fructose Ratio Engineering in SCNPs for Tumor Selectivity and Immunometabolic Modulation
  38. Nirasha Wickramasinghe – UNSW Sydney – Inhibiting TOPORS Activity to Sensitise Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells to Hypomethylating Agents
  39. Yuan Zhang – UNSW Sydney – Broad-Spectrum Intranasal LNP-siRNA Therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2: Targeted Nasopharyngeal Delivery and In Vivo Antiviral Efficacy
  40. Lingqing Zong – UNSW Sydney – Geobacter Sulfurreducens Armed with Biosynthetic Gold Nanoparticles for Tumor-Selective Cascade Catalytic Cancer Therapy