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Biomaterials and Nanomaterials &
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Thomas J Webster
Northeastern University, USA
Say goodbye to hospitals and hello to implantable sensors
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here is an acute shortage of organs due to disease,
trauma, congenital defects, and most importantly,
age related maladies. While tissue engineering (and
nanotechnology) has made great strides towards improving
tissue growth, infection control has been largely forgotten.
Critically, therefore, the Centers for Disease Control have
predicted more deaths from antibiotic-resistant bacteria
than all cancers combined by 2050. Moreover, there has
been a lack of translation to real commercial products.
This talk will summarize how nanotechnology can be
used to increase tissue growth and decrease implant
infection without using antibiotics but using sensors
(while getting regulatory approval). Our group has shown
that nanofeatures, nano-modifications, nanoparticles,
and most importantly, nanosensors can reduce bacterial
growth without using antibiotics. This talk will summarize
techniques and efforts to create nanosensors for a wide
range of medical and tissue engineering applications,
particularly those that have received FDA approval and are
currently being implanted in humans.
Speaker Biography
Thomas J Webster’s (H index: 86) degrees are in chemical engineering
from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995) and in biomedical
engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S., 1997;
Ph.D., 2000). He has graduated/supervised over 149 visiting faculty,
clinical fellows, post-doctoral students, and thesis completing B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D. students. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the
International Journal of Nanomedicine (pioneering the open-access
format). He currently directs or co-directs several centers in the area
of biomaterials: The Center for Natural and Tropical Biomaterials
(Medellin, Colombia), The Center for Pico and Nanomedicine (Wenzhou
China), and The International Materials Research Center (Soochow,
China). He regularly appears on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, National
Geographic, Discovery Channel, and BBC News talking about science
and medicine. He has received numerous honors and is current a fellow
of AANM, AIMBE, BMES, NAI, and FSBE.
e:
th.webster@neu.edu