Carbon Nanostructures in Medicine and Biology II

Monday, May 12, 2014: 10:00-12:00
Bonnet Creek Ballroom X, Lobby Level (Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek)
Chair:
Lon J. Wilson
10:20
Double Impact of Modified Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Nanomedicine: Vehicles for Gene Therapy and Theranostic Agents
S. Alidori, J. J. Mulvey, M. R. McDevitt, and D. A. Scheinberg (Departments of Medicine, Radiology, and the Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065.)
10:40
Carbon Nanostructures Used for Screening in Biomedicine
R. I. Stefan-van Staden (Laboratory of Electrochemistry and PATLAB Bucharest, National Institute of Research for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter)
11:00
Carbon Nanotubes As Photoluminescent Quantitative Bioanalytical Sensors
D. A. Heller (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
11:20
Invited Presentation: SWCNT-Based Fluorescent Immunoprobes for Short-Wave Infrared Cancer Detection
K. Beckingham, M. Vu, C. W. Lin, A. Williams (Rice University), R. C. Bast Jr. (Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center), and R. B. Weisman (Rice University)
11:40
Carbon and Inorganic Nanostructure Reinforced Polymeric Nanocomposites for Bone Tissue Engineering
G. Lalwani, B. Farshid (Stony Brook University), A. M. Henslee (Rice University), L. Lin (Stony Brook University), K. Kasper (Rice University), Y. X. Qin (Stony Brook University), A. G. Mikos (Rice University), and B. Sitharaman (Stony Brook University)