Input Sought from USU Faculty, Students for USTAR Nanobiotech Research
The convergence of recent advances in nanotechnology with modern biology and medicine has created the new research domain of nanobiotechnology. Utah State University faculty and students are invited to submit their ideas for research in this field and explore possible collaborations between USU and USTAR researchers at the University of Utah.
Hamid Ghandehari and Marc D. Porter, both recruited to the U. as part of the Utah Science, Technology and Research — USTAR — initiative, visit the USU campus Monday, March 17. All are invited to hear about their research and discuss collaborative opportunities at the USU nano-Bio Symposium at 1:15 p.m. in the Merrill-Cazier Library Auditorium, room 101.
USU faculty and students are invited to submit a brief presentation for possible inclusion in the symposium. Presentations must be limited to two or three PowerPoint slides and submitted to USU chemistry professor Tapas Kar via email, tapas.kar@usu.edu, by March 15.
At the symposium, Porter, an expert in the development of biosensors for early disease detection, presents “Nanometric Materials in Optical and Magnetic Strategies for Disease Diagnosis.”
Porter joined the U of U’s departments of chemistry and chemical engineering as a USTAR professor from Arizona State University, where he was founder and director of the Center for Combinatorial Science at the BioDesign Institute.
Ghandehari, an expert in drug delivery innovation, presents “Targeted Delivery: Does Higher Definition at Nanoscale Matter?” A USTAR faculty member in the U.’s colleges of pharmacy and engineering, he previously served as a professor and director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery, the Greenebaum Cancer Center and the Maryland Bioengineering Program.
Presentations by USU researchers and roundtable discussions will follow the guest speakers’ talks.
For more information, contact Kar at 797-7230 or Glenn Whichard, senior commercialization associate, physical science, in USU’s Technology Commercialization Office, at 797-9604, glenn.whichard@usu.edu.
Related links:
Dr. Kar’s Web site
Contact: Tapas Kar [tapas.kar@usu.edu], 435-797-7230
Writer: Mary-Ann Muffoletto [maryann.muffoletto@usu.edu], 435-797-3517
Writer: Mary-Ann Muffoletto [maryann.muffoletto@usu.edu], 435-797-3517
USTAR researcher Hamid Ghandehari is a featured speaker at the USU nano-Bio Symposium March 17 on the USU campus.
Marc D. Porter, a USTAR researcher at the University of Utah, will discuss the use of nanometric materials for disease diagnosis. USU researchers will discuss possible collaborative research with the U. of U. at the gathering.
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