Note: All lectures, except where indicated, will be held from 10:30-11:30am in the Radiology Education Conference Room, MC Level of the Annenberg Building, Room AMC 330.

Nanomedicine, Molecular Imaging and Neuroimaging Seminar Series 2011-2012

September 27^th, 2011, 10:00 am
Thomas E. Yankeelov, PhD
Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS), Cancer Imaging Research
"Quantitative MRI and PET Methods for Predicting Therapy Response in Cancer"

September 30^th, 2011, 10:30 am
Roland Bammer, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology
"Advances in Diffusion and Perfusion Imaging: New Opportunities for Quantitative Neuroimaging"

October 18^th, 2011, 10:00 am
D. S. Fahmeed Hyder, PhD
Yale University, School of Medicine, Magnetic Resonance Research Center
"Components of functional brain activity and their energy demands: Implications for fMRI"

October 21^st, 2011, 10:30 am
Rudolph L. Juliano, PhD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
"The pharmacology and delivery of antisense and siRNA oligonucleotides"

Friday, December 2^nd, 2011, 10:30 am
Vasilis Ntziachristos, MSc, PhD
School of Medicine and School of Electrical Engineering
Helmholtz Zentrum München
Munich Germany
"Illuminating biomedical discovery with advanced photonic imaging"

December 6^th, 2011, 10:00 am
Allen W. Song, PhD
Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering
"High-resolution DTI and fMRI"

December 16^th, 2011, 10:30 am
Jan Grimm, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Faster than the speed of light for Oncology Imaging..."

Tuesday, January 10^th, 2012, 10:00 am
Todd Constable, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine, Magnetic Resonance Research Center
"Recent Advanced in Accelerated MRI and its Applications in Neuroimaging"

Friday, January 20^th, 2012, 10:30 am
Daniel G. Anderson, PhD
MIT
"Combinatorial development of biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery"

Friday, February 17^th, 2012, 10:30 am
Vladimir Muzykantov, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Targeted nanodevices for drug delivery to endothelium"

Friday, March 16^th, 2012, 10:30 am
Christine Payne, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Probing nanoparticle-cell interactions with fluorescence microscopy and single particle tracking"

Friday, April 27^th, 2012, 10:30 am
Lance C. Kam, PhD
Columbia University
"Spatially Resolved Signaling and Nano-engineering of Immunity"

Friday, May 18^th, 2012, 10:30 am
Michael J. Sailor, PhD
University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"Medical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nanomaterials Based on Porous Silicon Particles"

Friday, July 20^th, 2012, 10:30 am
Jason McCarthy, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Center for Systems Biology
"The applicability of nanomaterials to the imaging and therapy of thrombosis"

Friday, August 17^th, 2012, 10:30 am
Nicholas A. Peppas, ScD
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Biomedical Engineering
"Intelligent Nanoscale Systems for Protein Delivery, Diagnostic and Recognitive Medical Devices"

Friday, September 21^st, 2012, 10:30 am
Liangfang Zhang, PhD
University of California, San Diego, Department of Nanoengineering and Moores Cancer Center "Biomimetic Nanoparticles Disguised as Living Cells for Combinatorial Drug Delivery"

Friday, October 19^th, 2012, 10:30 am
Kam W. Leong, PhD
Duke University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
"Nanotherapeutics: application to regenerative medicine"