Nanotechnology applications for treatment and research in cancer, neuroscience, and radiology will be the focus of a new workshop program planned for the second annual Johns Hopkins University Nano-Bio Symposium, scheduled for May 1-2. 2008, at the School of Medicine on the East Baltimore campus.

Academic and clinical faculty members are invited to join students, staff, and representatives from nanobiotechnology related business and industry for a stimulating and enriching two-day event. The 2008 symposium also features talks by the world’s leading experts in nanobiotechnology, a poster session representing research from four Hopkins divisions, and the newly added Thursday afternoon workshop.

“The 2007 inaugural Nano-Bio Symposium drew nearly 400 attendees, and the 2008 event is expected to draw even more participants,” says Peter Searson, a professor of Materials Science in the Whiting School of Engineering and director of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, which organizes the symposium.

To date, confirmed speakers for the 2008 Johns Hopkins University Nano-Bio Symposium include:

Donald E. Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Vascular Biology Program, Children’s Hospital

Andrew D. Maynard, Ph.D.
Chief Science Advisor, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Jennifer L. West, Ph.D.
Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering
Rice University

Participant registration and guidelines for poster submission will be available soon at INBT’s Web site, http://inbt.jhu.edu.

Sponsorships opportunities are available now. For information about sponsorship opportunities, contact Mary Spiro, INBT’s media relations coordinator, at mspiro@jhu.edu, or call 410-516-4802