Education and Outreach

TCCN has organized the following educational seminars as a part of the Education/Training and Outreach activities. These educational seminars were open to all of the Texas Medical Center and were in collaboration with the 2011 Scholarly Research Project Seminar Series, at the department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering, UT Health Science Center.

Biological Applications of Nanoparticles. Presenter: Anil Sood, MD. Professor, Gynecologic Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Venue: UT Health Science Center; June 23, 2011
Targeted delivery of nanoparticles to solid tumors what it takes for successful homing. Presenter: Chun Li, Ph.D. Professor, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Venue: UT Health Science Center;
July 07, 2011

TCCN has developed webinars in nanotechnology research. Currently, there are two available, based on the above two seminars; and a third one on computational techniques in nanotechnology is being developed.
Educational courses in nanotechnology research are being planned for graduate students. Currently, we are working to include the following courses: Cancer Biology for Nanotechnology applications at MDACC; Computational Biology applications at TMHRI; Biostatistics at MDACC; Aptamers technology for Nanotech applications – UTHSC-H
TCCN has sponsored students and postdocs to attend national level conferences in nanotechnology.

SEMINARS & INVITED TALKS BY EXTERNAL AND TCCN MEMBERS

Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Co-Opting Moore’s Law to Design Better Therapeutics and Vaccines“ January 25, 2012,
Marcel Dinger, Ph.D., NHMRC Research Fellow, University of Queensland, "Through a transcriptome, darkly: emerging roles for long noncoding RNAs in disease and development“ September 26, 2011
Frank Slack, Ph.D., Professor, Yale University, "A functional SNP in a microRNA complementary site in the KRAS 3’UTR affects cancer risk and outcome“ March 24, 2011
Eric Olson, Ph.D., Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, "microRNAs connect cardiomyopathy and cancer” January 11, 2011
Anil Sood, M.D. Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, “Small interfering RNA: Promises for treatment and problems in delivery.” Delivering on the Promise of the Human Genome Project. 178th
Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vancouver, Canada, 2012.”

Education: Courses

Nanomedicine in Healthcare, Course taught by UT-BME/TCCN members
Cancer Cell Signaling (GS04 0133), University of Texas, Houston, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Course taught by Anil Sood, M.D. Professor, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bio-behavioral research methods in cancer prevention and addiction (GS219921/PH), University of Texas, Houston, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Course taught by Anil Sood, M.D.
Professor, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Anil Sood, M.D. Professor, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center “Biological Applications of Nanoparticles” June 23, 2011

RESEARCH PROJECT SEMINARS & HANDS ON DEMOS

Anil Sood, MD Professor, U. T. MD Anderson Cancer Center “Biological Applications of Nanoparticles” June 23
David Volk, PhD Assistant Professor, Institute for Molecular Medicine, UTHSC-Houston “Aptamers for Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Multi-Stage Drug Delivery” June 30
Gabe Lopez-Berestein, MD, Professor, U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
“Formulations” June 30
Chun Li, PhD Professor, U. T. MD Anderson Cancer Center “Targeted Delivery of Nanoparticles to Solid Tumors-What it takes for Successful Homing” July 7
Anoma Somasunderam, PhD Research Scientist, Institute for Molecular Medicine, UTHSC-H “Nanoparticle Imaging- cell and tissues” – hands on demo July 14
Lokesh Rao, PhD Research Scientist, Institute for Molecular Medicine, UTHSC-H “Nanoparticle Flow Cytometry & LaserMD” – hands on demo July 2
Ana Maria Zaske, PhD AFM core facility operator, UTHSC-Houston “Atomic Force Microscopy” – hands on demo July 28

STUDENTS INTERNSHIPS

POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING