Nano-biotechnology: from the lab to the marketplace

3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Stamp Student Union, Benjamin Banneker Room

Speakers and talk titles:
Anjan Nan, PhD
Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery
University of Maryland, Baltimore
"Nanoengineered drug delivery systems: A Bench to Bedside Approach"

Douglas S. English, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Maryland
Vice President of Research and Development, SD Nanosciences
"Big Ideas from Nanotechnology with Near-Term Products"

Qingrong Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
"Nanotechnology in Engineering Novel Biopolymeric Functional Films"

Anjan Nan, PhD, is a research assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a member of the Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery, University of Maryland, Baltimore. He received his BS in Pharmacy from Jadavpur University, India, and PhD in Pharmaceutics from University of Mississippi. His research interests include design and development of nanocarriers for drug delivery and imaging applications, focusing on water-soluble polymer-drug conjugates for targeted cancer therapy and engineered inorganic silica nanotubes for image-guided biomolecule delivery.

Doug English, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland. He earned his PhD at Iowa State University in 1998, where he studied the photophysics of light-activated antiviral compounds. For his postdoctoral work at the University of Texas, he continued working in spectroscopy and became interested in nanomaterials. He is currently a founder and the Vice President of Research and Development at SD Nanosciences, Inc.

Qingrong Huang, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Food Science Department at Rutgers University. He received a BS in Polymer Chemistry from Shanghai University of Science & Technology and a PhD in physical chemistry from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Indiana-Purdue University and Stanford University. His research focuses on the design of food nano- or micro-structures for improved quality and performance, self-assembly of food biopolymers at nanoscale, nanoencapsulation for food delivery applications, and fabrication of nanoscale biosensors.