NANOPARTICLES AND NANOSTRUCTURES FOR BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND THERAPY

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NANOPARTICLES AND NANOSTRUCTURES FOR BIOMEDICAL
IMAGING AND THERAPY
Design and development of biocompatible and
target specific nanoparticles for disease
detection and therapy.
Participants All the four corner institutions
and members of the materials science and
nanotechnology working group

• MU research reactor (radioactive nanoparticles)
• MU Nanoparticle production core facility
• KU Medical center Howlung Brain Imaging
  Institute
• ISU-3D tomography (TEM and atom probe)
• UNL- BPDF and GM/GP facility of MU
• KSU-Nanoparticle processing (smart)

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Competitors Washington University (St.
Louis)-cancer nanotech center
Harvard/MIT U of North Carloina
UCLA Stanford
U of Georgia/Northwestern Added
value Synergy and joint
political power New business in
biotechnology Very timely project Seed
project/joint meetings (more specialized) Possible
external funding sources IGERT, NIRT, MURI,
COBRE, STC, NIH Centers, NSF, EPA,
DOD (UARC)
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Next stage Technical mini symposium on the
topic-two months
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NANOSTRUCTURES FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND
SENSORSNANOINFORMATICS AND MATERIALS
DESIGNNANOMATERIALS AND NANOCOMPOSITES FOR
MULTIFUNCTIONAL STRUCTURESNANOTECHNOLOGY FOR
ENERGY APPLICATIONS