Gary L. Harris, Director, Howard Nanoscale Facility, Professor of Elec. & Comp Engineering, Howard University
Justin Hanes, Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Wilmer Eye Institute
Rutledge G. Ellis-Behnke, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine
Yawen L. Chiang, Director, Genentech
William C. Culp, Professor of Radiology Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Emilio R. Garrido-Sanabria, Faculty and Principal Invistigator, The University of Texas at Brownsville
Emily Day, Northwestern University
Raghuraman Kannan, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
ASNM Board of Directors
Esther Chang Professor of Oncology Georgetown University Medical Center
In addition to her work as Professor of Oncology with the Georgetown University Medical Center, Dr. Esther Chang has served as a member of a number of scientific advisory boards for the National Cancer Institute, NASA, the US Military Cancer Institute, and the Department of Energy. [more] ................................................................................................
Lajos Balogh Editor-in-Chief NanoMedicine: Nanotechnolgy, Biology & Medicine
Lajos (Lou) Balogh is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine (Elsevier). He is presently the CEO of AA NANOMED Consulting and a former Professor of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, of the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Raj Bawa Patent Agent, Bawa Biotech LLC, Ashburn Virginia Adj Professor, RPI, Troy, New York
Dr. Raj Bawa is President of Bawa Biotech LLC (founded 2002), a firm specializing in biotech/pharma consulting and patent law. He is a biochemist and microbiologist by training as well as a registered patent agent licensed to practice (since 2002) before the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). He specializes in all aspects of biotechnology, chemical, nanotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law, including prosecution, patent strategy... [more] ................................................................................................
Wah Chiu Distinguished Service Professor Baylor College of Medicine
Wah Chiu is the Director of the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, the Director for the Protein Folding Center, and the Codierctor of the W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Marianna Foldvari CRC Chair Bionanotechnology & Nanomedicine School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo
Dr Foldvari is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Canada Research Chair of Bionanotechnology and Nanomedicine at the School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo. [more] ................................................................................................
Howard Gendelman Larson Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious University of Nebraska Medical Center
Dr. Gendelman is the Larson Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is credited for making substantive contributions in the biology of mononuclear phagocytes and in describing how metabolic changes in the brain ultimately lead to neural cell damage. [more] ................................................................................................
Gary Harris Director, Howard Nanoscale Facility, Professor of El Howard University
Dr. Harris’ research interests have focused mainly on the growth and characterization of electronic and optical materials, the fabrication of semiconductor devices with special attention given to wide bandgap and compound semiconductor materials, and applications of nanotechnology to medical sensors. [more] ................................................................................................
Kuan Wang Director of Nanomedicine Program Institute of Biological Chemistry & Institute of Phy
Dr. Kuan Wang is currently Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and Lab Chief of the Laboratory of Muscle Biology and Section Head of the Muscle Proteomics and Nanotechnology Section at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health. [more] ................................................................................................
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Below are the ASNM Conference Programs from 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Esther H. Chang, Ph.D.
Lajos P. Balogh, Ph.D.
Raj Bawa, Ph.D.
Wah Chiu, Ph.D.
Marianna Foldvari, DPharm Sci, Ph.D.
Howard Gendelman, M.D.
Gary Harris, Ph.D., P.E.
Kuan Wang, Ph.D.
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