[Illinois] CMMB IGERT and M-CNTC Annual Symposium 2013
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The CMMB IGERT is training the next generation of leaders who will define the new frontiers of cellular and molecular mechanics and bionanotechnology.
Integrating biology and medicine with micro and nanotechnology can be categorized into two broad areas, namely how micro/nano-fabrication can help solve problems in life sciences (such as diagnostics, therapeutics, and tissue engineering) and how we can learn more from life science to solve important problems in micro/nano-science and engineering (such as bio-inspired self-assembly).
The M-CNTC is Training the next generation of leaders who will define the new frontiers and applications of nanotechnology in cancer research.
Integrating biology and medicine with micro and nanotechnology can be categorized into two broad areas, namely how micro/nanofabrication can help solve problems in life sciences (such as diagnostics, therapeutics, and tissue engineering) and how we can learn more from life science to solve important problems in micro/nano-science and engineering (such as bio-inspired self-assembly).
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Midwest Cancer Nanotechnology Traning Center (M-CNTC)
Training the next generation of leaders who will define the new frontiers and applications of nanotechnology in cancer research
It is known that more than 1.5 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer during 2010, and half a million have died (Cancer Statistics 2010, ACS). In spite of considerable effort, there has been limited success in reducing per capita deaths from cancer since 1950. This calls for a paradigm shift in the understanding, detection, and intervention of the evolution of cancer from a single cell to tumor scale.
In response to this challenge the M-CNTC has assembled a preeminent interdisciplinary team of researchers and educators across the University of Illinois and clinical collaborators in the Midwest to train the next generation of engineers, physical scientists, and biologists to address the challenge of understanding, managing, diagnosing, and treating cancer using the most recent advancements in nanotechnology.
Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology (CMMB-IGERT)
Training the next generation of leaders who will define the new frontiers of cellular and molecular mechanics and bionanotechnology
Critical experiments during the last decade show a fundamental link between the micro- and macro-mechanical environment (i.e., intracellular forces, local shear, gravitational force) and a variety of cell functionalities, their lineage, and phenotype. These findings pose the grand challenge: what is the underlying molecular mechanism that cells employ to transduce mechanical signals to biochemical pathways?
In response to this challenge the CMMB IGERT launched an interdisciplinary research effort with national and international collaborators.
Conducted at molecular to inter-cellular scales, this research involves biological experiments, imaging, large scale computations, and development of new engineering methodologies to address the grand challenge in a quantitative way previously not available to the research community.
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