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NIH Transporter Elucidation Network Meeting 

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September 14, 2026

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Host: MiNED Center,

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

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Detailed Program and Poster Abstracts

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8:30 – 9:00 AM.       Welcome and Introduction to the NIH Transporter Elucidation Network

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9:00 – 10:30 AM.     Advancing Translation in Perinatal Transporter Science
  • Predicting Gestational Ontogeny of Maternal-Fetal Drug Exposure: A Path Forward
  • Defining the Placenta Transporter Proteome in Health and Disease
  • Transporters from Mammary Organoids and Human Milk
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10:45 – 12:00 PM.    ‘Omics Approaches to Study Perinatal Transporters
  • Placental Transcriptomics and Proteomics
  • Ontogeny of Human Intestinal Transporters
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12:00 –  1:00 PM.     Computational and Structural Biology Approaches to Transporter Science
  • Structures of Blood Brain Barrier Transporters
  • Advanced Machine Learning Models for Transport and Placental Transfer
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1:00 –  2:00 PM.       Poster Session

 

2:00 –  3:30 PM.       New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for Perinatal Science
  • Vectorial Transport in Human Intestinal Enteroids
  • Organoids for Investigating Brain Transporters and MDCK Cysts for Polarized Localization – Recorded Video
  • Human Placenta-on-a-Chip to Study Maternal-Fetal Transfer and Health
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3:30 –  4:30 PM.      Panel Discussion
  • What’s Next?  Challenges and Charting New Directions in Perinatal Transporter Science

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Posters from trainees and early career scientists will be available online for viewing during the lunch break.

Speakers and Panelists

Kathy Giacomini

 

University of California, San Francisco

Aaron Pawlyk

 

NIH/NICHD

Jashvant Unadkat

 

University of Washington

Joanne Wang

 

University of Washington

Rajini Rao

 

Johns Hopkins University

Elimika Pfuma Fletcher

US Food and Drug Administration

 

Sejeong Kim

 

University of Pennsylvania

Hao Zhu

 

 

Tulane University

Robert Stroud

 

University of California, San Francisco

 

Lauren Aleksunes

 

Rutgers University

Svetlana Lutsenko

 

Johns Hopkins University

Micheline Piquette-Miller

University of Toronto

Sam Arnold

University of Washington

Jacqueline Tiley

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ed Kelly

 

University of Washington

Jia Yang

 

University of California, San Francisco

Aarzoo Thakur

University of Washington

Joanna Melia

Johns Hopkins University