August 8, 2007
MEDIA ADVISORY
Singapore – The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) will host the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE)’s 3rd International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (ICBN) at Biopolis on August 13 to 15, 2007.
The first conference in this series was also chaired by Prof Jackie Ying of IBN and was held in September 2004 at the Biopolis in Singapore. The second ICBN was held in September 2006 at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA.
Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr George Yeo, will be the Guest-of-Honor at the Official Opening of ICBN 2007, which will be held on Monday, August 13, from 9:30am to 10:45am. The opening program will also feature lectures by two keynote speakers.
The first Keynote Lecture on “Designing Nanocrystal Quantum Dots for Biological Imaging” will be delivered by Professor Moungi Bawendi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Bawendi is one of the original Bell Laboratories’ inventors of quantum dots, or fluorescent nanocrystals. His talk will focus on new methods of engineering quantum dots, which provide greater control of their particle size and functionality, thereby allowing them to be used not only for biological imaging, but also for biosensing applications.
The second Keynote Lecture on “NanoSystems Biology and New Technologies for In Vitro and In Vivo Diagnostics of Cancer” will be presented by Professor James R. Heath from the California Institute of Technology. Professor Heath received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1988 from Rice, where he was the principal student involved in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of C60 and the fullerenes. His talk will focus on network models of human diseases such as cancer, and how these models can be harnessed for information that will help the clinical treatment of the disease.
Co-sponsored by IBN and SBE, ICBN is the first international conference devoted to the interdisciplinary fields of bioengineering and nanotechnology and their impact at the interface of science, engineering and medicine. The three-day conference will feature an impressive line-up of 25 distinguished invited speakers, as well as 18 contributed oral presentations and 115 poster presentations. ICBN 2007 has also received strong industry support, with over 25 sponsors and exhibitors.
Conference topics include:
· Drug Delivery Systems and Devices
· Protein and Gene Delivery Systems
· Cell and Tissue Engineering
· Artificial Organs and Implants
· Bio-MEMS and Microbioreactors
· Medical and Biological Devices
· Biosensors and Molecular Diagnostics
· Drug Screening and Pharmaceuticals Synthesis
· Biocatalysis, Organocatalysis and Nanobiotechnology
· Biological and Biomedical Imaging
· Biomimetic and Self-Assembled Materials
· Nanoparticles, Nanocomposites and Nanoporous Materials for Bio-Applications
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Please contact Nidyah Sani (DID: 6824 7005 / [email protected]) if you or your colleagues are interested in attending the event or would like more information. We would appreciate a response by 12pm on Friday, August 10, 2007 for those interested in attending the event.
