| 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. |
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Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. |
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Welcome and Introduction
Ari Requicha
Gordon Marshall Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, and Fellow of USC's Center for Interdisciplinary Research |
| 8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. |
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The Biology of Human Cancer
Peter Jones
Distinguished Professor, Director of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
USC Keck School of Medicine |
| 9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. |
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BioNEMS for Single-Cell and Single-Molecule Sensing
Michael Roukes
Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, and Professor of Physics, Applied Physics and Bioengineering
Caltech |
| 10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
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Coffee Break |
| 10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
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From Molecules to Devices: The Perspective from the Living System
Walter Wolf
Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
USC School of Pharmacy |
| 10:50 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. |
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Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Nanotubes
Chongwu Zhou
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
USC Viterbi School of Engineering |
| 11:10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
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Nanoparticles and Their Applications in vivo
Mihri Ozkan
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
University of California at Riverside |
| 11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
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Computer Simulation of Cancer Progression and Response to Chemotherapy
Vittorio Cristini
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of California at Irvine |
| 11:50 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. |
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Nanoactuator Survey
Ari Requicha |
| 12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
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Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. |
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The Cancer Nanotechnology Plan
Mauro Ferrari
Special Expert on Nanotechnology, NCI
Edgar C. Hendrickson
Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology;
Associate Vice President, Health Sciences Technology and Commercialization
Ohio State University (OSU)
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| 2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
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From DNA to Transistors by Genetic Recombination
Erez Braun
Professor of Physics
Technion, Haifa, Israel |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
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Coffee Break |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:35 p.m. |
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Arthritis and Auto-Immune Diseases
Glenn Ehresmann, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
USC Keck School of Medicine |
| 3:35 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. |
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Distributed Sensor/Actuator Networks
Deborah Estrin
Professor of Computer Science
UCLA
Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Systems (CENS) |
| 3:55 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. |
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Directed Assembly in the LMR: Sensing and Manipulation at the Nanometer Scale under Ambient Conditions with AFM
Bruce Koel
Professor of Chemistry
USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Professor of Materials Science
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and Laboratory for Molecular Robotics |
| 4:15 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. |
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Survival Strategies for Millimeter-Scale Injectable Stimulators
Jerry Loeb, MD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Deputy Director of the NSF Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems |
| 4:35 p.m. - 4:55 p.m. |
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Nanotechnology for Cardiovascular Applications
Tzung Hsiai, MD
Assistant Professor of Cardiology
USC Keck School of Medicine, and of Biomedical Engineering
USC Viterbi School of Engineering |
| 4:55 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. |
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Nanobiotechnology Funding Opportunities at NCI
Greg Downing
Director, Office of Technology and Industrial Relations
National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
| 5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
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Where do we go from here? - Discussion. |
| 5:30 p.m. |
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Adjournment |
| 6:00 p.m. |
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Dinner with the Speakers (by invitation) |
