2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials hold significant potential to improve human health. This section focuses on the design and development of novel nanomaterials with potential in biomedical applications.

Chair

Agnes E. Ostafin, University of Utah

Co-Chair

William Pitt, Brigham Young University

Presentations

03:15 PM

Introductory Remarks

03:20 PM

(701a) Nanobiosensors
Ajit Sadana

03:40 PM

(701b) Use of Naturally-Occurring Halloysite Nanotubes for Enhanced Capture of Cancer Cells From Blood
Andrew D. Hughes, Michael R. King

04:00 PM

(701c) Functionalizable and Ultra Stable Nanoparticles Coated with Zwitterionic Poly(carboxybetaine) in Undiluted Blood Serum
Wei Yang, Shaoyi Jiang

04:20 PM

(701d) Negatively Charged Gold Nanoparticles Can Inhibit the Formation of Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid-β Protein Aggregates in a Mechanism-Specific Fashion
Deborah Soto-Ortega, Stephanie Paolini, Alaaldin Alkilany, Catherine Murphy, Melissa A. Moss, Rahina Mahtab

04:40 PM

(701e) Production of Robust Virus-Like Particles Via Disulfide-Bond Cross-Linking
Brad Bundy, James R. Swartz

05:00 PM

(701f) Novel Polyurethane/Carbon Nanofiber Composites for Bladder Cancer Applications
Young Wook Chun, Melissa Tsang, Thomas J. Webster

05:20 PM

(701g) Guanidylamided PEI as Ovarian Cancer Gene Therapy Vectors
Bo Zhang, Xinpeng Ma, Maohong Fan, Edward Van Kirk, William Murdoch, Jianbin Tang, Youqing Shen