Biological, Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Complex Fluids IV
Confirmed Speakers
Simone Aleandri, University of Bern, Switzerland
Iris Da Luz Batalha, Associate Professor, University of Bath, UK
Giuseppe Battaglia, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
Angela Develin, Boehringer Ingelheim, USA
James Harden, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jan Jazek, Arecor, UK
Helena Mateos, University of Bari, Italy
Hanne Mørck Nielsen, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware, USA
Marco Polimeni, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Alberto Saiani, Professor, University of Manchester, UK
Florian Schelter, Roche, Germany
Davide Schirone, Lund University, Sweden
Emanuela Zaccarelli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Zhenyu Zhang, University of Birmingham, UK
Session Descriptions
Protein/Peptide Self Assembly Aggregation
Proteins and peptides undergo different self-assembly and aggregation pathways that strongly influence stability, manufacturability, sensory properties, and delivery performance in biotherapeutic, food, and cosmetic formulations. These pathways arise from a combination of interactions including hydrophobic forces, electrostatics, hydrogen bonding, excipient competition, exposure to interfaces, mechanical or thermal stresses, and interactions with formulation conditions such as pH or salt that can shift association equilibria.
This session will explore recent insights into the thermodynamics, kinetics, and molecular mechanisms behind protein and peptide aggregation in biological complex fluids.
Protein/Peptides at Surfaces and Interfaces
Interfacial phenomena are key to describe the behavior of biological complex fluids where adsorption, unfolding, restructuring, and interfacial film formation influence stability, manufacturability, and delivery. Whether in an air/water or solid/water environment proteins and peptides often behave differently at interfaces than in bulk, leading to challenges such as interfacial aggregation, foaming, or undesirable texture. These interfacial behaviors can be further modulated by the presence of surfactants and polymers that compete for the interface or alter interfacial structure.
This session focuses on understanding how proteins and peptides interact with interfaces and how these interfacial properties shape product performance across biopharma, food, and cosmetic applications.
Formulation Rheology and Delivery of Proteins/Peptides/Exosomes
Formulating proteins, peptides, and exosomes presents shared challenges across different industries. These challenges include stabilizing delicate structures, managing viscosity, controlling self-association, and ensuring effective delivery whether by injection, topical deposition, or incorporation into formulation matrices. Interactions with surfactants, polymers, oils, and salts often determine rheological behavior, aggregation resistance, and overall physicochemical performance.
This session highlights advancements in formulation design, bulk and microrheology, stability enhancement, and delivery vehicles. We welcome contributions that connect molecular level interactions to macroscopic behaviors such as viscosity, flow, injectability, sensory attributes, and delivery efficiency.
AI ML Self Driving Labs to Accelerate Formulation Development and Optimization
As protein and peptide-based products become more complex, AI and ML approaches offer powerful methods to accelerate formulation design and understand high dimensional formulation spaces. Digital models and self-driving laboratory systems can enhance predictive capabilities, reduce experimental load, and uncover nonlinear structure property relationships.
This session will spotlight advances in AI driven formulation development including predictive modeling, Bayesian optimization, digital twins, automated experimental platforms, and hybrid physical and data driven approaches tailored to biological complex fluids.
Advanced Characterization of Biological Complex Fluids
Biological complex fluids such as proteins, peptides, and exosomes exhibit multiscale structure and dynamic behavior that require advanced characterization across molecular, colloidal, and macroscopic levels. Understanding these systems is essential for improving stability, guiding formulation, and enhancing delivery performance in biopharma, food, and cosmetic applications. Characterization approaches that capture the influence of formulation variables such as pH, salt, or excipients often shed new light on aggregation, interfacial structure, and rheological behavior.
This session will highlight state of the art tools and analytical frameworks that reveal structure, dynamics, and interactions in complex biological formulations.
Call for Abstracts
Please choose one or more of the following topics of interest to pre-select up to three areas where you believe your work fits best:
- Protein/Peptide Self Assembly/Aggregation
- Protein/Peptides at Surfaces and Interfaces
- Formulation, Rheology and Delivery of Proteins/Peptides/Exosomes
- AI/ML/Self Driving Labs to Accelerate Formulation Development and Optimization
- Advanced Characterization of Biological Complex Fluids
Abstracts (one page maximum) that include specific results and conclusions to allow a scientific assessment of the proposed oral presentation are invited. Please prepare your abstract according to this template: docx or doc.
Oral abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2026
Poster abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2026
Poster size: Your poster should be no larger than 1.5 meter high and 1.0 meter wide (Portrait Style)
Abstracts of all presentations will be made available to conference participants prior to the start of the conference.
Note: Only a limited number of oral presentation slots are available and thus all submissions for oral sessions will be considered for both oral and poster presentation.
Awards will be presented to the top student posters.