Welcome to the Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology (IAM) website. IAM is an interdisciplinary research institute coordinating research in polymer science, nanomaterials, and nanobiosciences - areas of critical and growing importance to society.
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Friday, 30 October 2009 16:23 |
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Joe DeSimone received a North Carolina Award, the state's highest civilian honor, at a celebration in Raleigh this week. According to Governor Perdue, "The award celebrates creativity and innovation, two values which sustain our economy, our culture and our people, [and is] bestowed upon individuals whose contributions to our state are enduring and significant." See details here.
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 16:18 |
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IAM faculty member and Debreczeny Distinguished Professor Nancy Allbritton recently won two National Institutes of Health grants for developing rapid tests for cancer. Under an existing University Cancer Research Fund with David Lawrence, Eschelman, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, the researchers produced a new and more rapid tool targetting a simple blood test for leukemia. Based on these exciting results, the two have now won new NIH grants to extend their work. Professor Allbritton is the Prinicpal Investigator, along with Professor Lawrence and cancer experts Channing Der and Jen Jen Yeh, professors in Phamacology and Surgery, respectively, to develop breast and pancreatic cancer tests. Professor Lawrence is the PI, along with Professors Allbritton and Young Whang (Medical School), on a grant focused on prostate cancer. The grants are worth almost $5M over five years. For more on this exciting work see UNC-CAS. |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:31 |
The National Institutes of Health announced today that IAM Director Joseph DeSimone has been selected for a prestigious Pioneer Award. One of only 18 conferred this year, the Pioneer Award supports ‘individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering-- and possibly transforming approaches - to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research'. The Pioneer Award includes a grant of $2.5 million over five years to encourage and enable investigators to explore bold ideas that have the potential to catapult fields forward and speed the translation of research into improved health.
DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, will use the award to develop new methods for delivering promising biological therapeutics, such as proteins, antibodies and nucleic acids, selectively to specific locations in the body in a safe and effective fashion. This work will combine DeSimone's existing technology for producing precisely engineered particles with novel delivery techniques.
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:22 |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under Professor Tom Meyer’s leadership, was selected to receive a prestigious five year Energy Frontiers Research Center (EFRC) grant. One of only 46 EFRCs funded by the Department of Energy and President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the “Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics EFRC” at Carolina will focus on innovative interdisciplinary research, including the synthesis of new molecular catalysts and light absorbers and integration into nanoscale architectures for improved generation of fuels and electricity from sunlight. The Carolina led EFRC will involve over 20 faculty and include collaborations with scientists at Duke University, University of Florida, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina State University. The center will support a mix of about 30 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. It will become a central part of the newly formed Solar Energy Research Center (SERC).
The EFRC will be housed initially within the Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology (IAM) at Carolina.
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