Program Plenary and Invited Speakers Final Program |
Plenary Speakers Stefano Bertozzi, Ph.D. Dean, School of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy & Management University of California, Berkeley, USA Title: PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT: KEYS TO FUTURE HEALTHCARE Chad Mirkin, Ph.D. Director of the International Institute of Nanotechnology Northwestern University, USA NANOTECHNOLOGY: DELIVERING THE PROMISE IN THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE Mark Zdeblick, Ph.D. Co-Founder, CTO Proteus Digital, USA Title: AN INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR WIRELESS HEALTHCARE INNOVATION Invited Speakers Mark Allen, Ph.D. Inaugural Scientific Director of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology, Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering and Mechanical & Applied Sciences University of Pennsylvania, USA Title: BIOMEDICAL MEMS IMPLANTS: INORGANIC-BASED, POLYMER-BASED, AND PROTEIN-BASED TRANSDUCERS Piotr Grodzinski NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, USA Title: NANOTECHNOLOGY-BASED THERAPEUTICS AND DIAGNOSTICS FOR CANCER - FROM ACADEMIC RESEARCH TO CLINICAL AND COMMERCIAL OUTCOMES - VIEW FROM THE NCI ALLIANCE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY IN CANCER Amy Herr, Ph.D. Lester John & Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor University of California, Berkeley, USA Title: SURMOUNTING THE DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKER CHALLENGE Stefanie Jeffrey, M.D. Professor of Surgery & Chief of Surgical Oncology Research Stanford University, USA Title: OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN ONCOLOGY Ellis Meng Professor and Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair University of Southern California Title: IMPLANTABLE MICRO INFUSION PUMPS FOR CHRONIC LOCALIZED DELIVERY OF ANTI-CANCER THERAPIES Jeffrey Rogers, Ph.D. Director of Engineering, Healthcare Technologies Google, USA Title: THE BATTLEFIELD-A DRIVER AND CRUCIBLE OF HEALTHCARE INNOVATION Mehmet Toner, Ph.D. Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor or Biomedical Engineering, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program, USA Title: FUTURE OF MANAGING CANCER PATIENTS: MICROFLUIDIC QUEST TO FIND EXTREMELY RARE CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS |