http://www.ieee.org/nano | IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council
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http://www.ieee.org/nano | IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council
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Nanotechnology has the potential to provide solutions to some of the most challenging problems in the world of medicine. Dr. Loftus will present an overview of a number of nanotechnology projects with potential high impact in these areas, focusing on carbon nanotube based technologies that are under development at NASA Ames Research Center. These projects involve technologies for rapid molecular diagnosis of disease, novel therapeutic delivery systems, novel implantable materials and other bioengineering applications.
When: January 17, 2006, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Donation: IEEE members: $5.00, Non-members: $10.00
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Where: National Semiconductor, Building #31
955 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 95052
Directions from 101:
From 101, exit Lawrence Expressway South, drive over 101. Turn right on to Kifer Road (3 rd signal). Go thorough two signals on Kifer Road, turn right in drive way, park on the back of the building.
Agenda: Light lunch from 11:30 AM to 12:00 NOON
Noon to 12:45 PM – Dr. David Loftus speaks, 12:45 PM to 1:00 PM – Q/A
Speaker: DAVID J. LOFTUS, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Officer, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Ca
Dr. Loftus joined NASA Ames Research Center 5 years ago, and is affiliated with both the Center for Nanotechnology and the Life Sciences Division. Dr. Loftus serves as the Medical Director of Hematology Oncology Projects at NASA Ames, and holds an adjunct clinical faculty appointment at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Loftus received his undergraduate education in Chemistry at Pomona College. He attended graduate school and medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and an M.D. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Hematology at Stanford University.