UNC IAM-News

Fall 2007

>Current Materials Science Seminars [pdf]

Departmental Seminar Links:
>APPLIED MATH SEMINARS
>CHEMISTRY SEMINARS
>MATH SEMINARS
>PHYSICS SEMINARS
>LINEBERGER CANCER CENTER SEMINARS

Dec 17, 2007

CHANL Job Openings

Nov 30 , 2007

Ramsey Elected Fellow of AIMBE:
J. Michael Ramsey, UNC Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, AIMBE. According to College of Fellows Chair Nicholas Peppas, Sc.D., the fellows represent some of the most imaginative and distinguished bioengineers in the field. Their contributions have had a major impact in biomedical devices and processes, treatment of diseases, and public policy related to all aspects of bioengineering. Professor Ramsey was cited in particular for his pioneering efforts in the development and commercialization of lab-on-a-chip devices for drug discovery, healthcare and environmental monitoring.

Nov 11, 2007

Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Advanced Materials are hosting Professor Justin Hanes for a seminar and discussions on Friday, 30 Nov. 2007. Professor Hanes is an internationally recognized expert in bioengineering, materials science and medicine at John Hopkins University.

His research is focused in particular on the lung, with initiatives in inhalation drug delivery of new polymers and aerosols, gene delivery in the lung, cell models of the lung, mucosal barriers in cystic fibrosis, and cancer research of the lung and brain.
The seminar will be:

Nanoparticulate Drug Carriers that Penetrate Human Mucus Barriers
Prof. Justin Hanes
Johns Hopkins University
9:00-10:00 am, Friday, 11/30/07

1131 Bioinformatics Bldg

August 23, 2007

DeSimone Delivers Nanotechnology and Imaging Lecture at ISSSR Symposium: Joseph DeSimone, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at UNC and Founder of Liquidia Technologies, presented an invited to lecture “Nanosystems Biology, Nanotechnology, and Opportunities for Imaging,” to an international audience of leading scientists and the CEOs of the leading imaging equipment manufacturers at the International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology (IS3R) symposium in Munich, Germany. The talk focused on producing precisely engineered nanoparticles, made by proprietary PRINT™ technology, for combined molecular imaging and therapeutic purposes. This exciting new area is being developed at UNC and at Liquidia Technologies Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company founded to design, develop, and manufacture such precisely engineered particles and films for life science and materials applications.

August 19, 2007

Jason Rolland, UNC Graduate and Liquidia Co-Founder, Receives Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. Jason Rolland, a 2005 doctoral graduate of UNC, is the recipient of the prestigious 2007 National Starch & Chemical Company Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science and Engineering. Dr. Rolland’s winning thesis, which he wrote under the direction of Professor Joseph DeSimone, examined novel applications of perfluoropolyether (PFPE) materials. Dr. Rolland is a co-founder and now Senior Scientist at Liquidia Technologies, which is commercializing the PFPE technology for wide ranging applications including antifouling coatings, microfluidics, mold-based lithography for nano-patterned films, and nanoparticle fabrication.

August 1, 2007

General Assembly establishes University Cancer Research Fund at UNC: The fund, established to accelerate the battle against cancer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine and its Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will receive $25 million in 2007-2008 and is slated to increase to $50 million per year beginning in 2009.

July 26, 2007

The Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology
Excellence announces two new programs:

1) A new Graduate Certificate in Nanomedicine being offered through the UNC Graduate School beginning this Fall, which is available to students and postdocs.

For more information contact:
ccne@med.unc.edu

2) A new Nanomedicine Course being offered Fall semester. Enrollment in the certificate program is not required to take the course.

To register go to the UNC Registrar webpage: http://regweb.oit.unc.edu.

For more information contact RL Juliano:
arjay@med.unc.edu.

July 10, 2007

Associate Professor Peter J. Mucha wins NSF Career Award

March 11 , 2007

UNC Material Science and Engineering Program Ranked 2nd in the Nation

March 8 , 2007

IAM Director Joseph M. DeSimone featured in Nature article investigating the therapeutic uses of nanotechnology in the treatment and diagnosis of cancer (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 6, 174-175 (March 2007)).

Spring 2007

>Current Materials Science Seminars [pdf]

Departmental Seminar Links:
>APPLIED MATH SEMINARS
>CHEMISTRY SEMINARS
>MATH SEMINARS
>PHYSICS SEMINARS

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