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Biomedical Nanoscience

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Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative News

"USC Hosts Nanoscience Research Conference," USC News, March 31, 2008.

"USC Provost Unveils Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative," USC News, Nov. 11, 2005.

Vision

Our vision is to take a revolutionary approach toward human disease through the integration of nanoscience and medicine in order to detect disease at the earliest time, treat with the greatest specificity and to restore and regenerate function.

Our vision will be accomplished by developing and deploying devices, systems and materials at the nanoscale, by exploiting their unique advantages of size, physical properties and ability to interact with living tissue.

Mission

The mission of the USC Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative is to take a highly integrative, multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to three over-arching themes:

  • To detect disease at the earliest possible time, prior to its ability to cause damage
  • To deliver treatment at the right place and at the right time
  • To re-establish tissue and organ function through innovative biotic and abiotic approaches

These themes will be attacked by multidisciplinary teams, which will develop nanoscale systems and materials, integrating them into the programmatic and clinical strengths of the biomedical community at USC.

Contact Information

Co-Chairs, Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative:

Richard Cote
Professor of Pathology and Urology
Keck School of Medicine
NOR 2424F
1441 Eastlake Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9092
(323) 865-3270

Mark Thompson
Professor of Chemistry
LJS 370
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-0744
(213) 740-8549

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