NanoBio Seattle 2012 was chaired by University of Washington Professor Pat Stayton and held at the Bell Harbor International Convention Center in downtown Seattle on July 23 – 26, 2012.

 

It followed NanoBio Tokyo 2006 (chaired by Prof. Kazunori Kataoka), NanoBio Seoul 2008 (chaired by Prof. Kyung-Hwa Yoo) and NanoBio Zürich 2010 (chaired by Prof. Marcus Textor).

Congratulations to the winners of the NanoBio 2012 poster competition!

Biomaterials Science 1st prize winner:
Jinzi Zheng, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto (Canada)
PET/CT Imaging of the Heterogeneous Distribution of [64Cu]-Iodine Liposomes in Orthotopic Mouse Cervical Tumors

2nd prize winner:
Daria Zelasko-Leon, Northwestern University (USA)
Mussel-inspired surface functionalization of gold nanorods with polydopamine, albumin, and anti-mucin 1 for the targeted photothermal therapy of oral and breast cancers.

3rd prize winner:
Hye-Nam Son, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine (S. Korea)
Development of Antibody-free Immunodiagnostics