The National Institute of Standards and Technology

US Measurement System Workshop on NanoBiotechnology

Jesse Jones Graduate School of Management, McNair Hall in the Shell Auditorium
Rice University - Houston, Texas
January 19, 2006

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8:00     Coffee/breakfast/registration - Anderson Commons in McNair Hall

8:30     Welcome - Dr. Kathleen Matthews, Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences and the Stewart Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

8:35     Dr. S. Ward Casscells, The John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professor of Medicine Cardiology) and Public Health, and Vice President for Biotechnology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

8:40     Dr. Hratch Semerjian, Deputy Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology

8:50     Dr. Scott McNeil, Director, Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD

9:25     Dr. David Luzzi, Director, Nanotechnology Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

10:00    Dr. Nakissa Sadrieh, Associate Director for Research Policy and Implementation, Office of Pharmaceutical Science, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA, Rockville, MD

10:35   Coffee break - Anderson Commons in McNair Hall

11:00   Dr. Nigel Walker, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Toxicology Operations, Research Triangle Park, NC   

11:35   Dr. Vicki Colvin, Director, Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN), Rice University, and Chair of ASTM Committee E56 on Nanotechnology

12:10   Dr. James Whetstone, NIST US Measurement System

12:30   Lunch - Anderson Commons - McNair Hall

1:30     Break out sessions – various locations in McNair Hall

-Shell Audtorium in McNair Hall
A) Medical/Clinical/Pharmaceutical (drug delivery, targeted therapeutic agents, nanomaterials devices drug discovery)

-McNair Hall Room 217
B) Medical Imaging (nanobased contrast agents, other imaging modalities)

-McNair Hall Room 218
C) Manufacturing (nanoparticles handling, manufacturing, safety, scale-up)

-McNair Hall Room 317
D) Basic science (structure & dynamics of biomolecules, sensing at the single molecule level)

-Anderson Commons in McNair Hall
E) Physical Characterization (dimension, composition, purity, surface chemistry, instrumentation)

3:00     Break

3:30     Report from Breakout Sessions – Shell Auditorium in McNair Hall

4:30     Wrap-up

4:45     Reception