IEEE Miami Section in Conjunction with Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University is pleased to invite you to lecture on

Multi-Functional Nanoparticles to Enable Personalized Nano Medicine

by Sakhrat Khizroev
Fellow, National Academy of Investors, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Immunology, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Co-Director, Center for Personalized Nano Medicine Nano Medicine, Institute of Neuro-Immune Pharmacology, Florida International University

Date: Friday, March 1st, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Place: Room EC-2300 in the second floor of FIU College of Engineering and Computing
10555 W. Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, 33174.

Abstract: Personalized NanoMedicine (PNM) has recently emerged as a multi-disciplinary field that leverages nanotechnology to enable disease- and patient-specific medical diagnostics and treatment. However, in spite of its unprecedented potential, PNM is at its very early stage of development and no viable PNM technologies exist today. The use of nanoparticles is often considered as the main driving force of nanomedicine and especially of PNM. Because of their unique size, shape, and environment dependent properties, nanoparticles promise superior applications in diverse areas such as cancer relief, drug delivery and targeting, immunoassays, functional MRI, PET-CT, and fluorescence imaging, enzyme mobility, catalysis, chemical separation, and many others. For ideal medical treatment, every patient requires his or her own optimal combination of drugs and environment that can be controlled at the sub-cellular level. Using nanoparticles to precisely control drug dosage and composition as well as to detect and trigger on demand minute environmental changes can make such personalized treatment a reality. However, the physics that underlies the nanoparticles’ characteristics in the perspective of their intrinsic interaction with the human body in the aforementioned applications is extremely poorly understood. Revealing and controlling the interaction of nanoparticles with the patient’s body at the nanoscale, whether it is electric field-, magnetic spin- , photon-, or phonon-triggered, is vital for enabling perfect diagnostics and/or recovery/regeneration of all the medical functions. The goal of the new FIU Center for Personalized NanoMedicine (CPNM) is to fill this gap via a focused cross-disciplinary study by experts in medical fields, physics and engineering of nanostructures, and signal processing and bio-imaging. The unique research direction of CPNM is towards creation of groundbreaking nanotechnologies based on the most recently discovered multi-functional nanoparticles with a wide range of physical and chemical properties to meet the infinite spectrum of patient and disease scenarios. The presentation will give an overview of the most recent technologies that have been pioneered and developed at the FIU Center.
Short Bio:Sakhrat Khizroev is an inventor with an expertise in nanomagnetic/spintronic devices with a current
research focus on nanotechnology applications in Personalized Nanomedicine and Information Processing. He is a Professor and Vice Chair at the Department of Immunology of Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also the founding Director of Center for Personalized NanoMedicine at the Institute of Neuro-Immune Pharmacology. From 2006 to 2010, Dr. Khizroev was a tenured Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside (UCR), where his group conducted several groundbreaking demonstrations in the area of nanoelectronics and nanodiagnostics. Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), three-dimensional (3-D) magnetic memory and Nanolasers for 5-nm diagnostics, low-damping spin-oscillator devices are some of the pioneering and patented technologies which emerged under the supervision of Professor Khizroev.
Prior to his academic career, Prof. Khizroev spent almost four years as a Research Staff Member with Seagate Research (1999-2003) and one year as a Doctoral Intern with IBM Almaden Research Center. (1997-1998). He holds over 30 granted US patents and more international patents. He has authored over 120 refereed papers, 1 book and many book chapters in the broad area of nanomagnetic/spintronic devices. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He has acted as a guest science and technology commentator on television and radio programs across the globe. He has served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and sits on editorial boards of several Science and Technology journals. Khizroev received a BS in Quantum Electronics and Applied Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a MS in Physics from the University of Miami, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, 1994, and 1999, respectively.