NEWS & EVENTS
Events
2012
April
11 Wednesday
Gold Nanoparticles as Vascular Disruptive Agents During Radiotherapy
Speaker: Ross I. Berbeco, Ph.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Brigham and Womens Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
March
28 Wednesday
MR guided focused ultrasound of the brain and targeted delivery of therapeutics
Speaker: Rivka R. Colen, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dept. of Radiology
14 Wednesday
Nanoparticles for delivery of imaging probes through the blood-brain-barrier in vivo in Alzheimers disease model mice
Speaker: Tara L. Spires-Jones, DPhil, Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Neuroscience, MGH
February
29 Wednesday
Molecular Imaging with MRI
Speaker: Dr. Ravi Teja Seethamraju, MR R&D, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
15 Wednesday
Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Microfluidic Cell Separation
Speaker: Brian Plouffe, Ph.D., MIT
08 Wednesday
Nanomedicine Seminar
Speaker: Shifalika Tangutoori, Ph.D., MGH, Wellman Center for Photomedicine
2011
December
02 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Philip Demokritou, Assistant Professor of Aerosol Physics, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health
November
18 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Lajos Balogh, Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at NEU and Editor-in-Chief of Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
15 Tuesday
IGERT Nanomedicine E-Lecture
Speaker: Amit Joshi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine
04 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Tyrone Porter, Assistant Professor, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and Associate Director, Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology, Boston University
01 Tuesday
IGERT Nanomedicine E-Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Rajesh R. Naik, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
October
21 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Rohit Karnik, D’Arbeloff Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
04 Tuesday
IGERT Nanomedicine E-Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Anu Puri, CCR Nanobiology Program, NCI-Frederick, NIH, Frederick, MD
September
30 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Mukesh Harisinghani, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School & Director Abdominal MRI, Massachusetts General Hospital
April
22 Friday
Designer Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery: Physical Answers to Biological Questions
Speaker: Dr. Samir Mitragotri, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of California
08 Friday
Nanotechnology for Medical Applications
Speaker: Dr, Anuj Bellare, Director, Orthopedic Nanotechnology Laboratory, Brigham & Womens Hospital and Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
February
04 Friday
Flame synthesis of functional nanoparticles: Non-toxic nanosilver for biosensors
Speaker: Dr. Sotiris E. Pratsinis, Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2010
November
19 Friday
Self-assembly of DNA into Nanoscale Three-Dimensional Shapes
Speaker: William M. Shih, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
08 Monday
Control of Magnetic Drug Delivery: from magnets that push, to simulations that predict in-vivo behavior, to autopsy studies
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Shapiro, Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, Institute for Systems Research
October
22 Friday
Nanomedicine and Cardiovascular Disease
Speaker: Jason R. McCarthy, Ph.D., Center for Molecular Imaging Research and The Center for Systems Biology, MGH and Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
February
11 Thursday
Synthesis and Characterization of Nanodevices for Targeting Tumor Microvasculature
Speaker: Wojciech Lesniak, Ph.D. , Instructor of Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Medicine, NanoBiotechnology Center
2009
November
06 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Omid Farokhzad, Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology
October
30 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Mukesh Harisinghani, Director Abdominal MRI, Massachusetts General Hospital
2008
December
15 Monday
Triggered Release of Doxorubicin from Nanoparticles
Speaker: Erin Pritchard, IGERT Undergarduate Phsyics Assocaite
05 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Anita Goel, Harvard/MIT, Founder Nanobiosym, Inc
November
05 Wednesday
Luis Brito Dissertation Defense
Speaker: Luis Brito, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and IGERT Nanomedicine Fellow
October
24 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Lee Josephson, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
September
26 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Lev Perelman, Ph.D, Professor, Department of Physics and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
19 Friday
Polymeric Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug and Gene Delivery
Speaker: Luis Brito, IGERT Nanomedicine Trainee and PhD Candidate, Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences
16 Tuesday
Introduction to Nanomedicine
Speaker: Dr. Mansoor Amiji , Associate Professor, Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences
August
11 Monday
Nanomed Discussion with Yogesh Patel
Speaker: Yogesh Patel, PhD Candidate, ECE Department, and IGERT Nanomedicine Trainee
July
21 Monday
Nanomed Discussion with Sucharita Saha
Speaker: Sucharita Saha, PhD Candidate, Department of Biology, and IGERT Nanomedicine Trainee
June
16 Monday
Nanomed Discussion with Luis Brito
Speaker: Luis Brito, PhD Candidate, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and IGERT Nanomedicine Trainee
May
12 Monday
Nanomed Discussion with Lara Milane
Speaker: Lara Milane, PhD Candidate, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and IGERT Nanomedicine Trainee
01 Thursday
Application of Aptamer Technology in Protein Domain-Specific Targeting and Nanomedicine
Speaker: Wei Duan, Ph.D, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
April
18 Friday
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Cynthia Bamdad, Founder & C.S.O. Minerva Biotechnologies
07 Monday
Nanomedicine Discussion with Mattia Migliore
Speaker: Mattia Migliore, PhD Candidate of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and former IGERT Nanomedicine Fellow
March
24 Monday
Nanomedicine Discussion with Paula Lampton
Speaker: Paula Lampton, PhD candidate of Biology, and former IGERT Nanomedicine Fellow
10 Monday
Nanomedicine Discussion with Lara Jabr Milane
Speaker: Lara Jabr Milane, PhD candidate of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and IGERT Nanomedicine Fellow
February
25 Monday
Nanomedicine Discussion with Christian Matthaeus
Speaker: Postdoc, Diem Lab
2007
December
12 Wednesday
07 Friday
Nanoparticle-based Antimicrobial Photochemotherapy in Biofilms
Speaker: Dr. Nikos Soukos, Director, Applied Molecular Photomedicine Laboratory, Forsyth Institute
November
27 Tuesday
Engineering of Highly-Organized Tissue
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Ruberti, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
20 Tuesday
Transport Phenomenon in Drug Delivery Systems
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Carrier, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
09 Friday
Early detection, prognosis and customized therapy for breast cancer using quartz crystal nanobalance technology
Speaker: Dr. Susan Braunhut, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, UMass Lowell
02 Friday
Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium
Speaker: Dr. Robert Langer of MIT
October
23 Tuesday
Nanotechnology and Societal Impact
Speaker: Dr. Chris Bosso, Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University
19 Friday
Microengineering the Cellular Environment for Tissue Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Ali Khademhosseini, Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Harvard-MIT
16 Tuesday
Biophysics of DNA Interactions
Speaker: Dr. Mark Williams, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Northeastern University
12 Friday
Entrepreneurship in Nanotechnology
Speaker: Dr. Paul Zavracky, Dean, School of Technological Entrepreneurship, Northeastern University
09 Tuesday
Nanoparticles and Optics in Imaging
Speaker: Dr. Charles DiMarzio, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
05 Friday
Nanomedicinal Chemistry
Speaker: Dr. Robert Hanson, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University
02 Tuesday
fMRI and Neural Network Imaging
Speaker: Dr. Marcelo Febo, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University
September
21 Friday
Nanomedicine for Treating Organ Failure
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Webster, Divisions of Engineering and Orthopedics, Brown University
August
29 Wednesday
Amphiphilic Core-Shell Nanoparticles with Poly(ethylenimine) Shells as Potential Gene and Drug Delivery Carriers
Speaker: Dr. Pauline Pei Li, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
22 Wednesday
New Technologies for Directing and Analyzing Cell Response to Engineered 3D Environments
Speaker: Jennie B. Leach, University of Maryland, Baltimore City
02 Thursday
Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase (eNOS) Gene Therapy with lipid / polymer based nanovectors
Speaker: Luis Brito, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, IGERT Nanomedicine Fellow
July
17 Tuesday
IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Ravi Kumar, Nanotechnology-Drug Delivery Group, INDIA, Department of Pharmaceutics & Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)
June
28 Thursday
Application of Nanotemplates and Nanoparticles in Nanomedicine
Speaker: Evin Gultepe, PhD Candidate, Physics Department, Northeastern University
14 Thursday
HER2/neu Receptor-Targeted Gelatin-Based Nanovectors for Pancreatic Cancer Gene Therapy
Speaker: Padmaja Magadala, IGERT Nanomedicine Fellow
May
27 Sunday
The Mechanosensitivity of Type I Collagen to MMP Cleavage
Speaker: Robert Camp, IGERT Nanomedicine Fellow
11 Friday
Molecular Response and Imaging-Based Combination Strategies for Optimal PDT
Speaker: Dr. Tayyaba Hasan, Professor, Dermatology, Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
April
13 Friday
Commercializing Nanotechnology for Biopharma Applications
Speaker: Dr. Michael Helmus, Sr. VP Biopharma, Advance Nanotech, Inc.
02 Monday
Barry A. Berkowitz Symposium on Biotechnology
Speaker: Dr. Judah Folkman, "Angiogenesis in Biology and Medicine"
March
16 Friday
Hybrid Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy
Speaker: Dr. Shiladitya Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard-MIT Division of Heath Sciences and Technology
February
23 Friday
16 Friday
Biodendrimers for Medical Applications
Speaker: Dr. Mark Grinstaff, Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, Boston University
2006
December
08 Friday
Combination Thermal Medicine and Drug Delivery in Cancer
Speaker: Dr. Nahum Goldberg, Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
01 Friday
Liposomes and Micelles
Speaker: Dr. Vladimir Torchilin, Professor and Chair, Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University
November
21 Tuesday
Mitochondrial Nanomedicine
Speaker: Dr. Volkmar Weissig, Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University
17 Friday
The Nano-Photomedicine Initiative in Oral Disease
Speaker: Dr. Nikos Soukos, Director, Applied Molecular Photomedicine Laboratory
07 Tuesday
Bio-Nano-Robotics
Speaker: Dr. Constantinos Mavroidis, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
03 Friday
Aptamers and Cancer Nanotechnology
Speaker: Dr. Omid Farokhzad, M.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
October
20 Friday
Dr. Lee Josephson
Speaker: Dr. Lee Josephson, Associate Professor, Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
17 Tuesday
"Tissue Engineering and Nanotechnology"
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Ruberti, Associate Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, Northeastern University
13 Friday
"Precision-Guided Nanoparticles: Design and Synthesis"
Speaker: Dr. Robert Hanson, CAS Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Norheastern University
06 Friday
"Microfluidics"
Speaker: Dr. Shashi Murthy, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
03 Tuesday
"Polymeric Nanoparticles"
Speaker: Dr. Mansoor Amiji, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University
September
29 Friday
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Mansoor Amiji, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University
26 Tuesday
"Magnetic Nanoparticles and Energy Delivery for Therapy"
Speaker: Dr. Sri Sridhar, Vice Provost for Research, CAS Distinguished Professor of Physics, Director IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology, Northeastern University
22 Friday
"Overview of Nanotechnology II: Imaging"
Speaker: Dr. Latika Menon, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Northeastern University
19 Tuesday
Overview of Nanotechnology I : Nanofabrication
Speaker: Dr. Latika Menon, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Northeastern University
August
16 Wednesday
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Mary Jo Ondrechen, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University
02 Wednesday
Convergent Synthesis of Precision Guided Bifunctional Nanoparticles
Speaker: Adam Hendricks, IGERT PhD fellow
July
19 Wednesday
Roles of Two Processivity Clamps in Resistance to DNA Damage and DNA Replication Stress
Speaker: Dr. Penny Beuning, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University
June
07 Wednesday
Alumina and Titania Nanotemplates in Nanomanufacturing and Nanomedicine
Speaker: Evin Gultepe, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Physics, Northeastern University
May
26 Friday
19 Friday
12 Friday
Biomedical Applications of Microfluidics and Nanoscale Surface Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Shashi Murthi, Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
05 Friday
Adherent Leukocytes Capture Sickle Erythrocytes in an In Vitro Flow Model of Vaso-occlusion in Sickle Cell Disease
Speaker: Eileen Finnegan, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
April
28 Friday
21 Friday
14 Friday
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Mary Shann, Professor, Department of Administration, Training, and Policy, Boston Univeristy
07 Friday
Approaches to Novel Bivalent Linkers for Functionalized Nanoparticles
Speaker: Dr. Robert Hanson, Professor of Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Northeastern University
March
30 Thursday
Application of Micro- and Nanotechnology Tools to Tissue Dysfunction
Speaker: Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia, Associate Professor, Health Sciences & Technology/Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer West, Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University
24 Friday
Keck 3D Fusion Microscpe Facility for Nanomedicine Research
Speaker: Dr Gary Laevsky, Keck Facility Manager, CenSSIS, Northeastern University
03 Friday
Nanoparticulate Carriers for Mitochondrial Gene Therapy
Speaker: Carol Kycia, IGERT undergraduate Fellow
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Volkmar Weissig, Professor of Pharmaceutical Science, Northeastern University
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Gerard D'Souza, rofessor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, West Virginia University
February
24 Friday
Intranasal delivery of GDNF for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease
Speaker: Mattia Migliore, IGERT PhD fellow
Using Nanoparticles to Analyze Key Immune System Molecules in Embryonic Stem Cells
Speaker: Paula Lampton, IGERT PhD fellow
17 Friday
Computationally Guided Protein-Specific Labeling with Nanoparticles
Speaker: Heather Brodkin, IGERT PhD fellow
Magnetic Bacterial NanoProbes
Speaker: Anthony D’Onofrio, IGERT PhD fellow
10 Friday
IGERT Outreach
Speaker: Claire Duggan, Outreach Coordinator, Northeastern University
03 Friday
Development of a Polymeric Nanoparticle Formulation to Overcome Multidrug Resistance of Cancer via a Multifunctional Therapy
Speaker: Lilian van Vlerken, IGERT PhD fellow
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Sri Sridhar, Director, IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology
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