Jennifer L. West at Nobel Conference 50
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Channel: Gustavus Adolphus College · 2014 · Education
Jennifer L. West, biomedical engineer, presenting “Nanotechnology and Biomedical Engineering” at Nobel Conference 50. Biomedical engineer Jennifer L. West, PhD – Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering and professor, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, and Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, N.C.; member of the Pratt School of Engineering’s Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics. Subjects: -Beginning of Lecture (1:41) -The "Small" Scale of Biomedical Engineering (3:57) -Vasculogenesis in 3D Hydrogels (17:35) -Nanoparticles in Medicine (22:46) -Nanoparticles with Unique Optical Properties: Nanoshells (27:18) -Absorbtion in Tissue (28:42) -Targeting IL13Ra2 on Glioma Cells (35:07) -What Scientists Really Do (41:58) -Advances in Medicine (43:08)
