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Magneto-electric Nanoparticles for Enabling Personalized NanoMedicine

Speaker: Sakhrat Khizroev, Florida International University

Talk Title: Magneto-electric Nanoparticles for Enabling Personalized NanoMedicine

Abstract: The use of nanoparticles is often considered as an enabling force of personalized nanomedicine (PNM). Using nanoparticles to precisely navigate a drug through the patient’s body and control its dosage and composition as well as to detect even minute disease-caused changes in the surrounding cellular microenvironment can make personalized treatment a reality. However, the fundamental physics that underlies the nanoparticles’ characteristics in the perspective of the intrinsic interaction with the patient’s body in the aforementioned applications is poorly exploited. Our recent discovery of the unprecedented capabilities of magneto-electric nanoparticles (MENs) helps fill this gap. MENs could be used as energy-efficient and dissipation-free field-controlled nano-vehicles for targeted delivery and on-demand release of anti-Cancer and anti-HIV drugs as well as nano-stimulators for field-controlled non-invasive treatment of patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders. Further, the intrinsic coupling between electric and magnetic forces within MENs enables molecular specificity that provides an entirely new dimension even to conventional state-of-the-art diagnostic methods such as MRI, PET-CT, the emerging diagnostic technique of magnetic nanoparticle imaging (MNI), and others. The talk will present the MEN applications developed in the Khizroev laboratory to treat and diagnose Cancer, HIV, Parkinsons Diseases and other dementia.

Biography: 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 tenured Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Professor and Vice Chair at the Department of Immunology of Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at FIU. 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 among 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 many 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.

Host: Mary Eshaghian-Wilner, Alice C. Parker

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Annie Yu