On February 15th, 2007 the Academic and Corporate Relations Center hosted the Life Science Business Workshop at the McNamara Alumni Center.  The event featured University research presentations on topics ranging from drug delivery devices to Alzheimer’s imaging to tissue engineering.  Companies from all across the state came together to hear the speakers and to explore collaboration opportunities.

Ultra Sensitive Technology: Monitoring Cancer Treatment-Induced Bone Disease

Susanta Hui, Ph.D., Radiation Therapy Department

M.D Stroke Center

Afshin Andre Divani, Ph.D. and Adnan Qureshi, M.D., Deptartment of Neurology

Drug Delivery Devices

Ron Siegel, Ph.D., Pharmaceutics

Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development

Vadim Gurvich, Ph.D., Institute for Therapeutics Discover

Alzheimer’s Imaging

Michael Garwood, Ph.D., Radiology-CMRR

Stem Cells for Treating Ischemic Brain Injury

Walter Low, Ph.D., Neurosurgery

Embryonic Stem Cells and Blood Cell Therapies

Dan Kaufman, MD, Ph.D., Translational Research Facility

Cardiac Stem Cells

Doris Taylor, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering Institute

Cardiac Devices

Paul Iaizzo, Ph.D., Department of Surgery

Experimental Surgical Services

Richard Bianco, Department of Surgery

Digital Design Consortium
Gary Meyer, Computer Science/Engineering

VR Surgery
Rob Sweet, Urology

Data Mining Consortium
Jaideep Srivastava, Computer Science/Engineering

Data Mining Topic
Gedas Adomavicius, Carlson Information/Decision Sciences

Wireless
Ahmed Tewfik, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distributed Robotics and Surveillance
Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Computer Science/ Engineering

Safety Security and Rescue Research Center
Maria Gini, Computer Science/ Engineering

Human Factors
Joe Konstan, Computer Science/ Engineering

Usability at the University of Minnesota
Alice de la Cova, Enterprise Applications Development
Kari Branjord, Enterprise Applications Development

Intelligent Storage Consortium
David Du, Computer Science/ Engineering

On May 3, 2006, the UM Office of Business Development sponsored a Nanotech Investment Community Workshop. This workshop aimed to attract and bring together individuals from the business and science community to stimulate conversation about research being done at the University of Minnesota in the field of nanotechnology.

Silicon nanocrystals for cancer imaging

Allison Hubel, PhD and Uwe Kortshagen, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Nanobioconjugate Chemistry

T. Andrew Taton, Chemistry Department

Nanoscale Magnetism

Dan Dahlberg, School of Physics and Astronomy

Methods for Improved Delivery of Nanoparticles on Functional Surfaces

David Y. H. Pui, Particle Technology Laboratory

Nanowire solar cells

Eray S. Aydil, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Directed Self-Assembly Across Lengths Scales: From Nano to Macro

Heiko O. Jacobs, ECE Department

Nano-Structured Microbial Coatings:  Reactive, Cell Preservation and Bioelectrochemical Applications

Michael C. Flickinger, Alptekin Aksan, Daniel Bond, and L.E. Scriven

Self-Assembly of Nanocomponent Arrays by 2D DNA Scaffolding

Richard A. Kiehl, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Toward Self-Assembling Protein Based Nanostructures for Cancer Detection and Therapy

Carston R. Wagner, Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Hard/Soft Microfabrication for Biosensing and Drug Delivery

Ronald A. Siegel, Pharmaceutics and Biomedical Engineering

Nanoparticle-Mediated Gene Therapy

R. Scott McIvor, Ph.D., Genetics, Cell Biology and Development Discovery Genomics, Inc.

Nanotechnology and the University

Steve Campbell

Nanoparticles and Nanophase Coatings

Steven L. Girshick, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Plasma synthesis of semiconductor nanocrystals for luminescence, photovoltaics, and electronics

Uwe Kortshagen, Mechanical Engineering

Nanomagnetism and Spintronics Research

Jian-Ping Wang,  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Paul Crowell,  School of Physics and Astronomy

Reliable Metrics for Emerging Nanotechnologies

W.W. Gerberich, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science