This symposium will bring together scientists in material sciences, chemistry, medical sciences, nanotoxicology, and related fields from multiple Pacific rim countries to exchange the latest information on this emerging area of research, and to review and discuss what we have learned up-to-now and what we should pursue in future. The topical area is highly interdisciplinary and the sessions are designed to be of interest to multiple research communities. The first session will focus on the fabrication and novel biomedical applications of nanoparticles/nanostructures/nanosystems, including primarily the syntheses and characterization of biomedical nanomaterials, the basic biology of the nanoparticle/organism interface, such as non-specific protein adsorption, the consequences of the protein coats on particles and their reactivity towards biomolecules, etc, and finally, recent advances and future prospects for the novel biomedical functions of engineered nanoparticles, such as applications related to the therapeutic and diagnosis effects in the biomedical sciences. The second session will focus on the potential for health and environmental impacts from exposure to engineering nanoparticles. This session will mainly focus on nanotoxicological research, with an emphasis on whole organism studies, including absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity of the engineered nanoparticles, and any other aspects related to nanosafety. The third session will draw both of these subjects together and presenters will explain how computational models can be used to look for trends in these complex datasets, and finally in the fourth session the focus will be on QSAR-type approaches to predict biological effects of nanoparticles based on their physical and chemical properties. In addition, we intend to invite some decision makers from governmental agencies from Pacific Rim countries for face to face discussions with researchers about the regulation framework for responsible development and applications of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
The symposium has many internationally prominent and distingushed scientists who will deliver invited lectures at the symposium 11#, for example, Prof. Paul Weiss (UCLA, the editor-in-chief of ACS Nano), Prof. Paul Borm (Zuyd Univ., Holand, Editor-in-Chief of Particles and Fiber Toxicology), Prof. Shuming Nie (Emory Univ. USA), Prof. Yuliang Zhao (CAS,China), Prof. Andre Nel, (UCLA,USA), Prof. Kabanov Alexander (Univ. Nebraska Medical Center, USA), Prof. Ruhong Zhou (IBM Research Center, and Columbia Univ.), Prof. Metcalfe Chris (Trent Univ., Canada), Prof. Esther Chang (Georgetown Univ. Medical Center, USA),Prof. Tropsha Alexander (Univ. North Carolina, Harvard Univ. and MIT), Prof. Howard Kenneth (Aarhus Univ., Denmark),Prof.Xiaohong Fang (ICCAS, China),et al.
