2015 AIChE Annual Meeting Proceedings

Session: Diagnostics, Treatments and Theranostics

This session explores the contributions of chemical engineers to the development and commercialization of diagnostics, treatments and theranostics. Contributions from image contrast agents to the design of new medicines welcome.

Chair

David W. Grainger, University of Utah

Co-Chair

Leonard F. Pease, University of Utah

Presentations

08:30 AM

(465a) High-Throughput Biomimetic Assay Designed to Quantify Antimalarial Efficacy
Megan Ketchum, Jeffrey D. Rimer, Peter G. Vekilov

08:51 AM

(465b) Utility of DNA Capture Resins in the Development of Minimally Invasive Tools for Genetic Monitoring of Pancreatic Health
Andrew J. Hilmer, Chaitan Khosla, Walter Park, R. Brooke Jeffrey

09:12 AM

(465c) Fluorophore-Gold Nanoparticle Contrast Agent for Specific and Sensitive MMP-14 Detection
Mai-Dung Nguyen, Kyung A. Kang, Palaniappan Sethu

09:33 AM

(465d) Design and Simulation of an Automated Rare Blood Cell Detector
Zhixi Qian, Thomas R. Hanley, Paul W. Todd, Eugene Boland

09:54 AM

(465e) Biofilm Mitigation on Implanted Devices
Erica Ricker, Ann O'Toole, Bryce Hundley, Eric Nuxoll

10:15 AM

(465f) Second Window Near Infrared Fluorescent Imaging for Deep Tissue Animal Imaging
Angela M. Belcher, Xiangnan Dang

10:36 AM

(465g) Specifically Tuned Light Activated Nano-Therapeutics for Selective Killing of Multi Drug Resistant Bacterial Strains
Anushree Chatterjee, Colleen Courtney, Samuel Goodman, Prashant Nagpal