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Nanomaterials in Biology and Medicine:  Promises and Perils

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Session 1: New technologies to create functional nanomaterials 
Opening Remarks - Robert Austin (Princeton University)

Shuang-Fang Lim (Princeton University) Nano-upconversion phosphors

Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University) Nanotechnological approaches to amplification in chemical and biological systems

Charles Lieber (Harvard University) Designed Nano-biosensors

Angela Belcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Evolution of biometic nanomaterials

Session 2: Societal and ethical concerns of nanotechnology in biology

Jeffery Schloss (The National Human Genome Research Institute) Genomic information for individuals opportunities and challenges for nanotechnology

Oleg Salata (Oxford University) Nanoparticles known and unknown health risks

Vikki Colvin (Rice University) Sustainability for nanotechnology

K. Eric Drexler (Nanorex, Inc.) The road to advanced nanotechnologies: health issues and applications

Sackler Lecture 
George Whitesides (Harvard UniversityNanoscience and Nanotechnology: A Portrait in Early Adolescence

Session 3: Functional nanomaterials in biology
Lisa Brannon-Peppas (University of Texas, Austin) Targeted Delivery of Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery Systems

Uwe B. Sleytr (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna) A molecular construction kit for nanobiotechnological applications

Barbara Baird (Cornell University) Engineered Materials to Investigate Spatial Control of Cellular Signaling

Herc Neves (BioMEMS, IMEC, Belgium) Micro/Nanosystem integration in healthcare

Robert Prod’homme (Princeton University) How size matters in the retention of nanomaterials in tissue

Session 4:  Frontiers of nanotechnology

Nadrian Seeman (New York University) DNA: not merely the secret of life

Olgica Bakajin (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)  Bio-Inspired and biocompatible carbon nanotube Materials

Steve Chou (Princeton University) 10nm large area patterning for bio sending and analysis

Closing Remarks Robert Austin (Princeton University)
     

 

 

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