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Participants*

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems

Pre-Conference

Videoconference between the Keck Center of the National Academies (Washington, DC) and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies (Irvine, CA)

September 18–19, 2004

Conference

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies (Irvine, CA)

November 18–21, 2004

Invited Research Participants:

Rigoberto Advincula

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

University of Houston

Daniel Akins

Center for Analysis of Structures and Interfaces

The City College of New York

Andreas Andreou

Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Ananth Annapragada

Associate Professor

Department of Bioinformatics

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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Most, but not all, attended both the Pre-Conference and Conference.

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Raymond Dean Astumian

Professor

Department of Physics

University of Maine

Orlando Auciello

Senior Scientist

Materials Science Division

Argonne National Laboratory

Robert Austin

Professor

Department of Physics

Princeton University

James R. Baker, Jr.

Ruth Dow Doan Professor

Internal Medicine-Allergy Division

Center for Biological Nanotechnology

University of Michigan

Nathan Baker

Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Washington University in St. Louis

Mark Banaszak Holl

Professsor

Department of Chemistry

University of Michigan

Prabhakar Bandaru

Assistant Professor

Materials Science Program

University of California, San Diego

Allen Bard

Professor (Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair)

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Texas at Austin

Andrew Barron

Charles W. Duncan, Jr., Welch Chair of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Rice University

Angela Belcher

John Chipman Career Development Associate Professor of Materials Science

Department of Materials Science, Engineering and Bioengineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stephen Boppart

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois, Urbana

Ronald Breslow

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Columbia University

Clemens Burda

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

Case Western Reserve University

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Peter Burke

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility

University of California, Irvine

Jennifer Cha

Research Staff Member

Department of Advanced Organic Materials

IBM Almaden Research Center

Mary Jane Cunningham

Associate Director

Department of Life Sciences & Health

Houston Advanced Research Center

Michael Darby

Warren C. Cordner Professor of Money and Financial Markets and Policy Studies

Department of Public Policy

University of California, Los Angeles

Tejal Desai

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Boston University

Andrew Ellington

Professor

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology

University of Texas at Austin

Andres Garcia

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Sharon Glotzer

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Michigan

Rachel S. Goldman

Associate Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Michigan

David S. Goodsell

Associate Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

The Scripps Research Institute

Richard Groff

Postdoctoral Research Engineer

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Jason Hafner

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Rice University

Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineeering & Biological Engineering Division

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Brian P. Helmke

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

University of Virginia

Mark Hersam

Assistant Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Northwestern University

Evelyn Hu

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Materials, UCSB

Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)

California NanoSystems Institute, University of California

Mark Humayan

Professor

University of Southern California School of Medicine

Gyeong Hwang

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Texas at Austin

Donald Ingber

Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology

Department of Pathology and Surgery

Harvard Medical School-Children’s Hospital

Shana Kelley

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

Boston College

Andrew Kent

Professor

Department of Physics

New York University

William King

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Kent Kirshenbaum

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

New York University

Michael Koonce

Research Scientist

Department of Molecular Medicine

Wadsworth Center

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Kurt Krause

Associate Professor

Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry

University of Houston

Way Kuo

Dean of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor

College of Engineering

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Yue Kuo

Dow Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Texas A&M University

Greg Lanza

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

Washington University Medical Center

Cato Laurencin

University Professor

Department of Orthopedic Surgery

University of Virginia Health System

David LaVan

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Yale University

Philip LeDuc

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

Abraham Lee

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

University of California, Irvine

Luke Lee

Professor

Department of Bioengineering

University of California, Berkeley

Woo Lee

Professor and Director

Department of Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology

Randolph Lewis

Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

University of Wyoming

Shuang Fang Lim

Postdoc

Princeton University

Jan Liphardt

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics

University of California, Berkeley

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Christopher Love

Post Doctoral Fellow

Department of Pathology

Harvard Medical School

Dan Luo

Assistant Professor

Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering

Cornell University

David Lynn

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Andrew Lyon

Associate Professor

School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Georgia Institute of Technology

Peter Ma

Associate Professor

School of Dentistry

University of Michigan

Hari Manoharan

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics

Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials

Stanford University

Chengde Mao

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

Purdue University

Hiroshi Matsui

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Hunter College

Andy McCammon

J. E. Mayer Professor of Theoretical Chemistry

Department of Theoretical Chemistry

University of California, San Diego

Adrienne Minerick

Assistant Professor

Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering

Mississippi State University

Nancy Monteiro-Riviere

Professor of Investigative Dermatology and Toxicology

Center for Chemical Toxicology Research and Pharmacokinetics

North Carolina State University

Liviu Movileanu

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics

Syracuse University

Cherry Murray

Deputy Director for Science and Technology

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Pennsylvania State University

Paul Nealey

Professor

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

University of Wisconsin

Shuming Nie

Professor

Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering

Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

James Noyes

Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Computational Science Minor

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Whittenberg University

Bradford Orr

Professor of Physics, Director of Applied Physics

Department of Physics

University of Michigan

Sean Palecek

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Babak Parviz

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Washington

Thomas Perkins

Associate JILA Fellow

National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado at Boulder

Thomas Pollard

Eugene Higgins Professor

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Yale University

Jon Pratt

Manufacturing Metrology Division

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Suzie Pun

Assistant Professor

Department of Bioengineering

University of Washington

G. Ramanath

Associate Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Robert Raphael

Law Assistant Professor

Department of Bioengineering

Rice University

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Mark Ratner

Morrison Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Northwestern University

Mark Reed

Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science

Department of Engineering

Yale University

Vincent Rotello

Professor

Department of Chemistry

University of Massachusetts

Michael Roukes

Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute

Professor, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering

Condensed Matter Physics

California Institute of Technology

Gary W. Rubloff

Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Maryland

Erkki Ruoslahti

Distinguished Professor

The Burnham Institute

Alan Russell

Director

McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

University of Pittsburgh

Michael Sailor

Professor

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of California, San Diego

Edward (Ted) Sargent

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Toronto

Holger Schmidt

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

School of Engineering

University of California, Santa Cruz

Joel Schnur

Director

Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering

Naval Research Laboratory

Ali Shakouri

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Baskin School of Engineering

University of California, Santa Cruz

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Michael Simpson

Distinguished Scientist and Professor

Department of Molecular-Scale Engineering

Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee

Peter Singer

Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

University of Toronto

Meera Sitharam

Associate Professor

Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering

University of Florida

Henry I. Smith

Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniel Sodickson

Director

Laboratory for Biomedical Imaging Research

Harvard Medical School

Lydia L. Sohn

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

Judith Stein

Chief Technologist—Emerging Technologies

Department of Polymer and Specialty Materials

GE Global Research

John V Stone

Applied Anthropologist

Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards

Michigan State University

Samuel Stupp

Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemisty and Medicine

Director, Institute for Bioengineering and Nanoscience in Advanced Medicine (IBNAM)

Northwestern University

Xing Su

Senior Staff Scientist

Intel Research

Intel Corporation

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Judith Swain, M.D.

Chair, Department of Medicine; Arthur L. Bloomfield and George E. Becker Professors of Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Todd Thorsen

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Victor Ugaz

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Texas A&M University

Peter Vikesland

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Virginia Tech

George Whitesides

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Harvard University

Samuel Wickline

Professor of Medicine, Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Washington School of Medicine Cardiovascular Division

University School of Medicine

Erik Winfree

Assistant Professor

Computer Science and Computation Neural Systems

California Institute of Technology

Patrick Winter

Research Instructor

Cardiovascular Division

Washington University

Peter Wolynes

Principal Investigator

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of California, San Diego

Michael Wong

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Rice University

Hao Yan

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Arizona State University

Minami Yoda

Associate Professor

School of Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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Bi-Botti Youan

Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Bernard Yurke

Optical Physics Research Department

Bell Labs

Markus Zahn

Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lynne Zucker

Professor

Department of Sociology

University of California, Los Angeles

Representatives from public and private funding organizations, nanotechnology centers, industry, universities, professional societies, and the science media

Ivan Amato

Associate Editor, Science News; Freelance Writer; Book Author

David Auston

President

Kavli Foundation

Barbara Baird

NBTC Director

Nanobiotechnology Center

Cornell University

Marcia Bartusiak

Author

Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Maria Bellantone

Editor

Nature

Ted Braun

Associate Editor

FNH News Service

Susan Brown

Science Writer

Science Communication Program

University of California, Santa Cruz

Kevin Bullis

Graduate Science Communication Student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suggested Citation:"Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems: Conference Focus Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11317.
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William Bunney, Jr.

Distinguished Professor, Della Martin Chair of Psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

University of California, Irvine

Denis Buxton

Associate Program Director

Heart Research Program, DHVD

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

National Institutes of Health

Jeff Byers

Doctor

Institute for Nanoscience

Naval Research Laboratory

Denise Caruso

Executive Director

The Hybrid Vigor Institute

David Clark

Producer

David Clark Inc.

2004 National Academies Communication Award Winner

Tonya Clayton

Science Communication Program

University of California, Santa Cruz

Barbara Culliton

Vice President for Publishing

The Center for the Advancement of Genomics

Editor in Chief

Genome News Network

Jim Dawson

Senior News Editor

Physics Today

Bill Douthitt

Senior Editor

National Geographic Magazine

David Eaglesham

Chemistry and Materials Science Chief Technologist

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Placid Ferreira

Director

Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Richard Foster

Chief Executive Officer

Caxton Health Holdings

Board Member

W.M. Keck Foundation

Susan Hackwood

Executive Director

California Council on Science and Technology

Robert Lee Hotz

Reporter

The Los Angeles Times

2004 National Academies Communication Award Winner

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Stu Hutson

Graduate Science Writing Student

Boston University

Bob Hwang

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Eric Isaacs

Argonne National Laboratory

Eric Jakobsson

Director

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

National Institutes of Health, NIGMS

Richard Kelley

Office of Basic Energy

U.S. Department of Energy

Aravinda Kini

Program Manager

Office of Basic Energy Sciences

U.S. Department of Energy

Eleni Kousvelari

Acting Director

Center for Biotechnology & Innovation

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

National Institutes of Health

Robert Leheny

Deputy Director

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Microsystems Technology Office

Gloria Lubkin

Editor at Large

Physics Today

John Mangels

Science Writer

The Plain Dealer

Jessica Marshall

Graduate Student

Science Communication Program

University of California, Santa Cruz

Scott Martindale

M.A. Candidate, Print Journalism

Annenberg School for Communication

University of Southern California

Conrad Masterson, Jr.

Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas

Maureen McDonough

Graduate Science Writing Student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Anatoli Melechko

Doctor

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Peter Moy

Division of Discovery Science and Technology

National Institutes of Health, NIBIB

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Andrew Noyes

Reporter

Research USA, L.L.C.

Jeff Osborn

National Geographic Art

National Geographic Magazine

Joe Palca

Correspondent

National Public Radio

Jeremy Paul

Director

Frontiers of Science

New York Academy of Sciences

Maria Pelligrini

Program Director

W.M. Keck Foundation

Pat Phibbs

Reporter

Bureau of National Affairs

Daily Environment Report

Wolfgang Porod

Director

Center for NanoScience and Technology

Department of Electrical Engineering

Notre Dame University

Matt Ridley

Author

2004 National Academies Communication Award Winner

Jeff Schloss

Program Director, Technology Development

National Human Genome Research Institute

National Institutes of Health

Richard J. Schwartz

Co-Director

Purdue University/Birck Nanotechnology Center

John Softcheck

Washington Fax

Goody L. Solomon

Exectutive Editor

FNH News Service

Fraser Stoddart

Director

California NanoSystems Institute

Jonathan Stroud

Graduate Student

Science Writing Program

University of Southern California

Ivan Suleiman

Special Assistant for the Chief Strategy Officer

Director External Affairs

American Chemical Society

Philip Szuromi

Supervisory Senior Editor

Science Magazine

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Mercedes Talley

Program Director

W. M. Keck Foundation

David Tennenhouse

Vice President, Corporate Technology Group

Director of Research

Intel Corporation

Mark Thiessen

Photographer

National Geographic Magazine

Dan Vergano

Reporter

USA Today

Andreas von Bubnoff

Graduate Science Writing Student

University of California, Santa Cruz

Peter Weiss

Physics/Technology Reporter

Science News

Robert Westervelt

Director

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center

Harvard University

The National Academies

Bruce Alberts

President

National Academy of Sciences

Megan Atkinson

Senior Program Specialist

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Ginger Clark

Senior Program Specialist

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Alex Cohen

Senior Program Specialist

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

E. William Colglazier

Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer

National Research Council

Harvey Fineberg

President

Institute of Medicine

Ken Fulton

Executive Director

National Academy of Sciences

Maureen O’Leary

Director

Broadcast & Special Projects

Office of News & Public Information

Marty Perreault

Program Director

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

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Alan Porter

Evaluation Coordinating Consultant

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Dave Roessner

Evaluation Consultant

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Bill Skane

Executive Director

Office of News & Public Information

Sarah Tegen

Editorial Associate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Wm. A. Wulf

President

National Academy of Engineering

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Last November, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative held the Designing Nanostructures at the Interface Between Biomedical and Physical Systems conference at which researchers from science, engineering and medicine discussed recent developments in nanotechnology, directions for future research, and possible biomedical applications. The centerpiece of the conference was breakout sessions in which ten focus groups of researchers from different fields spent eight hours developing research plans to solve various problems in the field of nanotechnology. Among the challenges were:

  • Building a nanosystem that can isolate, sequence and identify RNA or DNA
  • Developing a system to detect disease in vivo
  • Sequencing a single molecule of protein
  • Creating a biological system that will create a local hydrogen fuel source, and
  • Growing a biological in vivo power source.

Representatives from public and private funding organizations, government, industry, and the science media also participated in the focus groups. This book provides a summary of the conference focus groups. For more information about the conference, visit Keck Futures Initiative.

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative was launched in 2003 to stimulate new modes of scientific inquiry and break down the conceptual and institutional barriers to interdisciplinary research. The National Academies and the W.M. Keck Foundation believe considerable scientific progress and social benefit will be achieved by providing a counterbalance to the tendency to isolate research within academic fields. The Futures Initiative is designed to enable researchers from different disciplines to focus on new questions upon which they can base entirely new research, and to encourage better communication between scientists as well as between the scientific community and the public.

Funded by a $40 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative is a 15-year effort to catalyze interdisciplinary inquiry and to enhance communication among researchers, funding agencies, universities, and the general public–with the object of stimulating interdisciplinary research at the most exciting frontiers. The Futures Initiative builds on three pillars of vital and sustained research: interdisciplinary encounters that counterbalance specialization and isolation; the identification and exploration of new research topics; and communication that bridges languages, cultures, habits of thought, and institutions. Toward these goals, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative incorporates three core activities each year: Futures conferences, Futures grants, and National Academies Communication Awards.

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