Biomedical Nanoscience
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Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative News
"Nano Initiative Rolls Threes," USC News, Dec. 3, 2008.
Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative Retreat Agenda Descanso Gardens, Nov. 21, 2008.
"USC Hosts Nanoscience Research Conference," USC News, March 31, 2008.
"Little Big Science," USC Trojan Family Magazine, Spring 2007.
"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
Chair, Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative:
Mark Thompson
Professor of Chemistry
LJS 370
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-0744
(213) 740-8549
met@usc.edu
Last updated: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 3:34pm PDT
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