NanoSystems Biology and New Technologies for in vitro and in vivo Diagnostics of Cancer

THE MORK FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCEPresents the The First
William G. Spitzer LecturebyProfessor James R. Heath
Department of Chemistry
The California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CAonNanoSystems Biology and New Technologies for
in vitro and in vivo Diagnostics of Cancer
Wednesday, Feb 21, 2007
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Andrus Gerontology Center (GER 124)
University Park Campus
The emerging world of personalized, preventative, predictive, and
participatory (P4) medicine will likely be enabled by the developing field of
systems biology. Systems biology and P4 medicine are both data driven and,
accordingly, both require new tools for making large numbers of measurements
rapidly, quantitatively, and inexpensively. Microfluidics, chemical, and
nanotechnologies will revolutionize our ability to generate comprehensive data sets
that span from individual cells to patients, and will allow us to build
multiparameter analysis tools (quantitating genes, proteins, and cells) for achieving
an informative in vitro disease diagnosis, as well as in vivo molecular imaging
probes for spatially localizing specific diseases. Using cancer as a theme, I will
describe the state-of-the-art in terms of network models of human diseases, and I
will describe how those models may be harnessed for information that can impact
clinical care of cancer. I will then describe a suite of in vitro and in vivo
multiparameter diagnostics technologies that we are developing in my lab in
concert with other groups, in the context of both near term and far term
applications.Reception 5:00-5:45 PM
Host: Anupam Madhukar, (213) 740-4325.

Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium, GER 124

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Petra Pearce