Workshop Health and Innovation: Nanotechnology …...This panel will discuss the impact of nanotechnology on medicine and its implication for the future in healthcare in Europe and

Health and Innovation: Nanotechnology for Medicine Nanomedicine: the best practices—the latest technologies and opportunities

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 | 3:30 p.m.—5:00 p.m. | University of Miami |Medical Campus Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center -1475 N.W. 12th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136

Sylvester Support Services Building – Room 110

Under the framework of the EU Jean Monnet Project, European, American and University of Miami experts in Nanotechnology in medi-

cine will meet with faculty, scientists, and the Miami-Dade Community at large. This panel will discuss the impact of nanotechnology

on medicine and its implication for the future in healthcare in Europe and in the United States. During the workshop, participants will

have the opportunity to discover the latest calls on “Nanotechnology” offered by the European Commission under the framework

programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020.

Opening Remarks: - Christine I. Caly-Sanchez, Associate Director /Project Manager , Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, FIU - Dr. Alice A. Tomei, Assistant Professor , Dept. of Biomedical Engineer ing, University of Miami

- Workshop

European and American Panelists:

Dr. Serge Braun Chief Scientific Officer, AFM-Telethon

Member of the French National Academy of Pharmacy (France)

Dr. Tarek R. Fadel Assistant Director, The Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Insti-

tute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA

Dr. Babak Kateb Founding Chairman of the Board of SBMT, President of Brain Mapping Foun-dation, Scientific Director of SBMT and Brain Mapping Foundation, Director of National Center for Nano-Bio-Electronics, Senior Editor of SBMT-NeuroMapping & Therapeutics, Chairman of Neuroscience-20/G20 Summit Brain Mapping Initiative, Scientific Director and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), California Neurosurgical Institute, CA, USA

Presentation on Horizon 2020 by:

Henriette Krimphoff Senior Scientific Officer, German Aerospace Center, DLR Project Management Agency (Germany)

Viktoria Bodnarova, EURAXESS Links North America Regional Representative

University of Miami Panelists:

Dr. Agarwal Ashutosh Assistant Professor, Pathology & Biomedical Engineering Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Biomedical Nanotech-nology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Dr. Spana Deo Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Dr. Sung Jin Kim Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Miami College of Engineering

Dr. Francisco M. Raymo Professor of Chemistry

Laboratory of Molecular Photonics, Dept. of Chemistry

Dr. Alice A. Tomei Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Director, Islet Immunoengineering Laboratory

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This event is free but by invitation only. For more information and RSVP, please contact Christine I. Caly-Sanchez at [email protected] — To register, click here

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This event is jointly sponsored by the Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, FIU and the EU Jean Monnet Project;

and co-sponsored by the Dr. John T. MacDonald Foundation, Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute, BioNIUM, the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, the Miami Scientific Italian Communi-

ty; the Consulate General of France in Miami, the Embassy of France in the United States, Office of Science and Technology, Washington DC; AFT Téléthon; the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeu-

tics; the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, the Marble Center for Cancer NanoMedicine; BILAT USA 4.0.