Next NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Conference Set for April

The organizing committee for the ASME 2015 4th Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB 2015) is accepting abstracts from researchers interested in presenting technical papers and posters at the conference, to be held April 19-22, 2015, in Minneapolis, Minn. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 5.

Next year's event in Minneapolis follows a very successful 2014 conference, held in San Francisco last February, which attracted more than 300 attendees and featured 45 technical sessions, 40 keynote and featured speakers, and a number of plenary talks and tutorials.

NEMB 2015 is gearing up to be just as exciting, with a number of luminaries from the field of nanoengineering for medicine and biology already on board as conference presenters. Speakers already confirmed for NEMB 2015 include Rashid Bashir, professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and director of the university's Micro and NanoTechnology Laboratory and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology; Shuichi Takayama, professor of bioengineering at the University of Michigan; Lihong Wang, professor of bioengineering at Washington University in St. Louis; Paul Weiss, the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences and director of the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Denis Wirtz, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and vice provost for research at Johns Hopkins University.

Tours of the Minnesota Nano Center at the University of Minnesota, a state-of-the art facility for nanotechnology R&D, will be conducted on Sunday, April 19, during the ASME 2015 4th Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB 2015).

The NEMB 2015 technical program will be divided in six topical tracks, covering the areas of nano-imaging and nanophotonics; nano-therapeutics; nano and microfluidics; nano-to-macro multiscale modeling; nanotoxicology in public health and the environment; and biomimetic materials.

Several tutorials will be presented on Sunday, April 19, covering such topics as opportunities for women and under-represented minorities in nanoscience and technology for medicine and biology; National Cancer Institute funding in nanotechnology; cardiotoxicity of emerging cancer nano-therapies; and integrated multiscale biomedical modeling and experiments. Tours of the University of Minnesota Nano Center also will be offered on April 19.

The conference will feature a special ASME NEMB Poster Competition, which will give students the opportunity to network with leaders from the field of nanomedicine, present their research in front of hundreds of attendees, and discuss their ideas with peers, professors and representatives from government and industry. Selected finalists will take part in the competition's lightning round, during which cash prizes and certificates will be awarded. Award winners will also be featured in a series of videos to be posted on ASME.org and other ASME social media outlets.

Caroline Cvetkovic, one of the poster presenters from NEMB 2014, is featured in a video clip that was recently posted on ASME.org. Cvetkovic's video is one of several interviews with NEMB 2014 poster presenters now available on the ASME website.

Several interview clips featuring poster presenters from NEMB 2014 were recently posted on the ASME website. Visit ASME.org to watch an interview with Caroline Cvetkovic, a participant from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and for links to other interviews.

To submit a paper or poster abstract, visit www.asmeconferences.org, and follow the instructions on the webpage. For more information on the 4th Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology, visit www.asmeconferences.org/NEMB2015 or contact Christine Reilley, Engineering Sciences, at (212) 591-8486 or reilleyc@asme.org.