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

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9:00 – 10:45 AM.     Advancing Translation in Perinatal Transporter Science
  • Maternal Metabolomics throughout Pregnancy
  • Defining the Placenta Transporter Proteome in Health and Disease
  • Insights on Transporters from Human Milk
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11:00 – 12:00 PM.    ‘Omics Approaches to Study Perinatal Transporters
  • Placental Transcriptomics and Proteomics
  • Ontogeny of Human Intestinal Transporters
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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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
  • Human Placenta-on-a-Chip to Study Maternal-Fetal Transfer and Health
3:30 –  4:15 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

Robert Stroud

University of California, San Francisco

Jashvant Unadkat

University of Washington

Joanne Wang

University of Washington

Rajini Rao

 

Johns Hopkins University

Dongeun Huh

University of Pennsylvania

Hao Zhu

 

Tulane University

Lauren Aleksunes

Rutgers University

Svetlana Lutsenko

Johns Hopkins University

Ed Kelly

 

University of Washington

Sam Arnold

 

University of Washington

Jacqueline Tiley

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jia Yang

 

University of California, San Francisco

Aarzoo Thakur

University of Washington