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Distinguished Speaker |
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| 01/14/08 |
Ivan El-Sayed, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Otolaryngology
UCSF |
"The Modern Gold Rush: Applications of Gold Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy and Imaging" |
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| 02/11/08 |
John Frangioni, M.D., Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor of Medicine
Assoc. Professor of Radiology
Dept. of Medicine
Harvard Medical School |
"Near-Infrared Flourescent Quantum Dots for Image-guided Surgery" |
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| 02/25/08 |
Alexander Kabanov, Ph.D.
Parke-Davis Professor
Director, Center for Drug Delvery and Nanomedicine
College of Pharmacy
University of Nebraska |
"Polymer Genomics" |
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| 03/10/08 |
Allan Hoffman, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering
Dept. of Bioengineering
University of Washington |
"Applications of Small Bioconjugates and Smart Nanoparticles in "Point of Care" Screening Assays in Microfluidic Devices" |
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| 03/24/08 |
Hongjie Dai, Ph.D.
J.G. Jackson-C.J. Wood Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
Stanford University |
"Carbon Nanomaterial for Biological Applications" |
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| 04/15/08 |
Chad Mirkin, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Dept. of Chemistry
Northwestern University |
"The Polyvalent Oligonucleotide Nanoparticle Conjugate: A New Frontier iin In Vitro Diagnostics and Intracellular Gene Regulation" |
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| 05/02/08 |
Celina Kleer, M.D.
Harold A. Oberman Collegiate
Professor of Pathology
University of Michigan |
TBA |
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| 05/12/08 |
Vladimir Torchilin, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor & Chair
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & Nanomedicine
Northwestern University |
"Multfunctional Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy" |
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| 07/07/08 |
Mostafa El-Sayed, Ph.D.
Julius Brown Chair & Regents Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology |
"Metallic Gold is More Precious on the Nanometer Size Scale: Some Properties & Applications of Gold Nanoparticles of Different Shapes in Nanophotonics, Nanomotors, Nanomedicine, & Nanobiology" |
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| 08/11/08 |
King Li, Ph.D.
Chair of Radiology
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX |
TBA |
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| 10/13/08 |
Dennis Liotta, Ph.D.
Professor of Organic Chemistry
Dept. of Chemistry
Emory University |
"Novel Cancer Therapeutics" |
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| 11/10/08 |
Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D.
William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
Depts. of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
University of North Carolina |
TBA |
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| 12/08/08 |
Charles Lieber, Ph.D.
Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University |
TBA |
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