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

    • Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Workshop

  • 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

    • Graduate Materials Links Symposium on Interdisciplinary Graduate Research

  • 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

    • IGERT seminar: open discussions

  • 19 Friday

    • Department of Pharmaceutical Science Research Showcase: "Emerging Therapeutics

  • 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

    • IGERT seminar: open discussions

  • 21 Friday

    • Karl Weiss Symposium on Membranes and Membrane Systems

  • 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