Sentences with phrase «as nanomedicine»

As nanomedicine advances from passive technologies, in which nanoparticles act as vehicles for drugs, to active treatments that involve more complex cellular interactions, specialized oversight may become ever more necessary, says Roco.

Not exact matches

In his first few years as a principal investigator (PI), working with stem cells and emerging nanotechnologies to develop nanomedicines, Ferreira was able to make do by licensing some of his technologies and securing industry funding and Portuguese government grants.

Further work needs to be done, too, in determining how best to deliver the treatment and in other areas, such as modifying the size and surface chemistry of the nanomedicine so that the body can accommodate it safely.

In a study published online October 10 in Nanomedicine the researchers report that the liquid controlled bleeding in rodents within 15 seconds in seven other wound types, including cuts to the spinal cord, liver [view video here] and femoral artery as well as skin punctures.

The country's 2006 — 2010 Science & Technology Plan identified nanotechnology and new materials as part of eight promotion areas and helped establish a new section of Japan's National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) that focuses on nanomedicine.

Singapore has shown to be a powerhouse of nanotech research as «it is pouring lots of money into recruiting high - level scientists in nanomedicine and nanotechnology,» says Scott McNeil, who heads the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL).

Lal serves as co-director for the Center of Excellence for Nanomedicine and Engineering, a subcenter of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at UC San Diego.

The work was funded by a nine - year grant from the National Institutes of Health for the Nanomedicine Development Center for the Optical Control of Biological Function (PN2EY018241), as well a NIH grants RO1EY06855 and P30EY001583, and by a grant from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, USA.

Co-lead scientist Associate Professor Tina Wong, who is the head of the Ocular Therapeutics and Drug Delivery Research Group at the Singapore Eye Research Institute, said the new nanomedicine will benefit the elderly, as they often forget to use the daily eye drops, leading to the worsening of their conditions.

Oregon State University scientists have developed a nanomedicine platform for cancer that can help doctors know which tissue to cut out as well as kill any malignant cells that can't be surgically removed.

I re-joined Johns Hopkins as a faculty member of the Center for Nanomedicine in the Wilmer Eye Institute, in 2016, after serving as chair and a faculty member of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Hopkins, and thereafter as Ohio Eminent Scholar in Nanobiotechnology and Molecular Self - Assembly at Ohio State University.

March 23, 2018 - These characteristics greatly influence their utility for drug delivery as they influence how they interact with biological systems and a greater understanding of these relationships is urgently required for nanomedicines to reach their full utility.

As one of six GRA universities, Emory has benefited from this unique partnership in numerous ways: through its 11 Eminent Scholars, multidisciplinary university and industry collaborations, and support for research in vaccines, nanomedicine, transplantation, neurosciences, pediatrics, biomedical engineering, clinical research, and drug discovery.

Nanomedicine varieties from the medical solicitations of Nano materials and biological devices, to Nanoelectronic biosensors, and even potential future applications of molecular nanotechnology such as biological machineries.

As such, it is the beginning of an experiment in itself to rethink nanomedicine in the making.