Posted: November 1, 2007 |
Institute for NanoBioTechnology awards seed grants for nanotechnology diagnostics |
(Nanowerk News) Last August Johns hopkins University's Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) placed a call for proposals in the area of Diagnostics. This was the fourth funding opportunity supported by INBT in one of it’s core research areas.
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The call for proposals related to diagnostics, which focussed on promising nanotechnology in the imaging of a specific disease, concluded the first year of the INBT seed grants. Five winning proposals by Johns Hopkins faculty have been selected to receive $20,000 each.
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“Tumor imaging by silica nanoparticles: binding to prostate specific membrane antigen” Howard Katz (MatSc) and Ronnie Mease (Radiology)
“Diagnosing colon cancer risk through direct experimentation on biopsied cells” Andre Levchenko (BioMed) and Andrew Feinberg (Medicine/Oncology)
“Nanomechanical techniques for cancer diagnosis” Sean Sun (MechE), Greg Bowman (Biophysics) & Peter Searson (MatSc)
“Innovative technologies to study mechanisms of inflammation-induced CNS axonal degeneration” Nitish Thakor (BioMed), Arun Venkatesan (Neurology) & Avindra Nath (Neurology)
“An integrated microfluidic nanosensor platform for point mutation detection of cancers” Jeff Wang (MechE) and Ie-Ming Shih (Pathology)
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Source: INBT
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