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The Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences is a true multidisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, engineers, toxicologists, physicians, biologists, pharmacists, and (bio)informatics specialists collaborating on nanoscience in biology and medicine. The Institute involves approximately 60 faculty in a "no-walls" model using facilities in the Engineering, Medical and LS&A schools to enhance competitiveness for externally funded grants and contracts.

We have three goals:

~First, to facilitate interaction among diverse scientific disciplines to accelerate discovery in Nanomedicine.

~Second, to foster translational science with the goal to commercialize our discoveries. ~Third, we have an educational mission to build a multidisciplinary Rackham Certificate program in Nanobiology, and to design a minor in Nanobiology for undergraduate students.

Students: see our nanobiology graduate program.

Current News and Events:

September 21, 2009: 2 - 5:30 PM, The Herbert D. Doan Nanotechnology Symposium

We have a very exciting program with Key Note speaker: Eric Betzig, Ph.D., HHMI, Janelia Farm Research Campus and two other distinguished speakers:

Kathryn Uhrich, Ph.D., Biocompatible Polymers Program. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Gregory N. Tew, Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering , University of Massachusetts Amherst

The program will be concluded with a Ph.D. student poster session.

Please mark your calendar. Location: - BSRB Auditorium and Atrium. Program details will follow.

February 9, 2009: 8:30am, Chis V. Kelly will do his Final Oral Examination for his thesis: "The Biophysics of nanoparticles interacting with the plasma membrane."

Location: BSRB 1130-C.

Chair: Professor Brad Orr

January 19, 2009: Other Voices: U-M can take the lead in combating disease with technology

by John Prensner, Maggie Kober and Adam Castano in Mlive.com Maggie Kober is now a 2nd year medical student at UofM and is a former undergrad in MNiMBS for 3.5 years.

January 5, 2009: Mark Banaszak Holl, professor of chemistry and of macromolecular science and engineering at the University of Michigan, was elected as a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

"Banaszak Holl studies the development of polymer-based drug transport agents and their interactions with lipid bilayers, organelles and cells. He was honored by AAAS for distinguished contributions bridging disciplinary boundaries in studies of chemical and biochemical processes at the nanoscale." The University Record.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008; 2:30 PM, Paul Edward Makidon will do his Final Oral Examination for his thesis

OIL-IN-WATER NANOEMULSIONS AS MUCOSAL VACCINE ADJUVANTS:
CHARACTERIZATION, MECHANISM, FORMULATION, AND DEVELOPMENT OF A
NANOEMULSION-BASED BURKHOLDRERIA CENOCEPACIA VACCINE
Location: 1170A and 1150B BSRB
Chair: Professor James R. Baker, Jr.

August 13, 2008 Nano vaccine for hepatitis B produces strong immunity

April 21 , 2008 - Dr. James R. Baker Jr. has been named the Distinguished University Innovator for 2008.

Baker, a scientist in the Medical School and a successful entrepreneur, has conducted breakthrough research in nanotechnology materials and launched two startup companies based on the results.

On Monday afternoon, March 31, 2008, we held our endowed Nanotechnology Symposium named in honor of one of our benefactors, Mr. Herbert D. Doan, the former Chairman of the Dow Chemical Company. The program featured speakers who reflect the cross-disciplinary nature of the Institute: Charles Cantor, Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer, Sequenom, San Diego, CA and James W. Schneider, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Click for further information.

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