Nano-Devices for Next Generation Stem Cell Therapeutics, Medical Adhesives, and Drug Delivery Systems

Date: 10/19/2012
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: 333 Curry Student Center
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Karp, Professor in Medicine, Brigham and Womens/Harvard Medical School

This talk will explore platform nano-technologies that are currently being developed in the KarpLab to tackle some of the most challenging medical problems. Namely, controlling and monitoring cell fate and function following transplantation, sealing tissues/closing wounds, achieving long term local drug delivery for treatment of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and glioblastoma, development of surfaces to separate cells for disposable point of care diagnostics and for cell therapy, and needles that sense different levels of tissue for the delivery of cells and drugs.