Projects by Subject Area

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Biosensors

• Development of Microfluidics integrated Nanoelectronic Sensors as a Diagnostic Tool for Pathologic Analysis of Cancer Tissues (Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC))
• Discrete Sensor Devices for Determining Cancer Targets (MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Ex vivo Sensors and Phenotypes for Cancer cells (Center of Nanotechnology for Treatment, Understanding, and Monitoring of Cancer (NANO-TUMOR))
• Molecular Beacons and Activatable Probes for Cancer Detection and Analysis (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)
• Multiparameter Nanoparticle Detection of Phosphoproteins (Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response)
• Tumor Activated Amplification System (Center of Nanotechnology for Treatment, Understanding, and Monitoring of Cancer (NANO-TUMOR))

Early Detection

• An Informative Diagnosis of Prostate and Ovarian Cancers through Multiparameter Serum Analysis (Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC))
• Development of BarCode Assays for the Detection of Ovarian Cancer (Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics)
• Longitudinal Tumor Monitoring with Nanodevices (Center of Nanotechnology for Treatment, Understanding, and Monitoring of Cancer (NANO-TUMOR))
• Magneto Nano Protein Chip and Multiplex Sorter for Monitoring Tumor Markers (Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response)
• Multiplexed Nanoparticle Probes for Therapeutic Translational Oncology (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)
• Nanotechnologies for Quantitating Pi3-kinase Pathway Biomarkers in Mice and Humans Treated with Kinase Inhibitors (Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC))
• Proteomic Predictors of Clinical Outcome of Targeted Therapies in Prostate Cancer (Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response)
• Single Cell Micro/Nano-Immunochip for Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Mediated Cancer Immunotherapy (Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC))

Medical Imaging

• Biological Modification of Quantum Dots for in vivo Imaging (Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response)
• Brain Tumor Imaging and Therapy Using Magnetic Nanoparticles (Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Carbon Nanotube X-Ray for In-vivo Cancer Detection and Treatment (Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Development of Clinical-Grade, Targeted Magnetic Nanoparticles (MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Development of “Smart” Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy and Imaging (Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Evaluation of the Applications of “Smart” Nanoparticles to Cancer Therapy and Imaging (Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Mouse Cancer Models for Integrated Tissue/Serum Proteomics and Molecular Imaging (Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response)
• Nanoparticle Imaging and Co-targeting of Cancer and Bone Stroma (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)
• Neovascular-Directed Nanoparticles for Detection, Characterization, and Treatment of Neoplasia with MRI (The Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Novel Semiconducting Nanocrystals for Cancer Detection (MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)

Molecular and Cellular Imaging

• Bioactivated Nanoprobes for Molecular Imaging of Cancer (Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics)
• Multimodal In Vivo Cell Imaging Nano Array (The Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Nanotechnology-derived probes for Molecular Imaging Positron (Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC))
• Quantum Dots and Targeted Nanoparticle Probes for Cancer Imaging (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)

Multiplexing

• Magneto Nano Protein Chip and Multiplex Sorter for Monitoring Tumor Markers (Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response)
• Multimodal In Vivo Cell Imaging Nano Array (The Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Multiplexed Nanoparticle Probes for Therapeutic Translational Oncology (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)
• Multiplex Nanotube Based Protein Nano-Arrays for Cancer Research (Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response)
• Single Cell Micro/Nano-Immunochip for Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Mediated Cancer Immunotherapy (Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC))

Nanofluidics

• Development of Microfluidics integrated Nanoelectronic Sensors as a Diagnostic Tool for Pathologic Analysis of Cancer Tissues (Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC))
• Nanofluidics Devices for Rapid Single Cell Analysis of Protein Expression (Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)

Nanomanufacturing

• Engineering of Cancer Nanotechnologies for High-Throughput Fabrication (Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC))

Nanopatterning

• Deconstructing Directional Cell Motility in Metastasis through Nanopatterning (Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics)
• Nanopatterned Surfaces for the Analysis of Tumor Cell Signaling & Migration (Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)

Nanotags

• Development of BarCode Assays for the Detection of Ovarian Cancer (Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics)
• Multiplexed Raman Nanotags for Cancer Molecular Profiling (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)

Targeting

• Nanoparticles In vivo: Interactions with Cells and Tissues (Center of Nanotechnology for Treatment, Understanding, and Monitoring of Cancer (NANO-TUMOR))
• Targeted In vivo micro Platform for Nano Devices (Center of Nanotechnology for Treatment, Understanding, and Monitoring of Cancer (NANO-TUMOR))

Therapeutics

• Acoustic Nanobeacons for Targeted Detection and Treatment of Tumor Angiogenesis (The Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• An Informatics Resource for Targeted Nanoparticle Therapeutics (The Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Development of “Smart” Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy and Imaging (Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Evaluation of the Applications of “Smart” Nanoparticles to Cancer Therapy and Imaging (Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Multifunctional Nanostructures for Therapeutic Targeting of Breast Cancer (Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics)
• Nanoscale Encasement and Targeted Delivery of Multifunctional Therapeutic Agents for Hematological Cancer and Solid Tumors (Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics)
• Nanotherapeutics: Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Targeting (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)
• Targeted Polymeric Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapeutic Applications (MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• TiO2 Nanocomposites for Targeted Treatment and Imaging of Prostate Cancer (Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics)
• Treatment of Cancer with siRNA Delivered by Nanoparticles (MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Tumor Therapy/Annihilation Using a Smart Nanoplatform (Center of Nanotechnology for Treatment, Understanding, and Monitoring of Cancer (NANO-TUMOR))

Quantum Dots

• Biological Modification of Quantum Dots for in vivo Imaging (Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response)
• Multiplexed Nanoparticle Probes for Therapeutic Translational Oncology (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)
• Novel Semiconducting Nanocrystals for Cancer Detection (MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence)
• Quantum Dots and Targeted Nanoparticle Probes for Cancer Imaging (Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology)