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Paul Joseph, senior research scientist at the Georgia Tech-Nanotechnology Research Center (NRC), will discuss his work focusing on using nano-scale devices to increase the chances of cancer detection at noon Friday, Oct. 23 in Hugel Science Center room 103.
The lecture is part of the College’s Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in the Life Sciences. Through the Dorflinger Summer Research Fund, Joseph has included neuroscience major Nafis Hasan ’11 (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and biology major Kevin Oswalt ’10 (Bellbrook, Ohio) in his research as summer interns. Peter d’Aubermont ’73, a dermatologist at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta, helped arrange the internships. The Dorflinger Fund, endowed by Laneta Dorflinger ’75 and Mark Graham, pays for summer internships for three students each year.
NRC is an interdisciplinary user research facility that is open to all research and development communities from academia and industry. In collaboration with Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at Emory University and other partners, NRC researchers employ a number of microfabrication and nanotechnology techniques to develop micro and nano-scale devices and imaging techniques to understand the cellular/inter-cellular processes in cancer cells. The focus of cancer research has been on ultrasensitive detection and accurate measurement of biologically relevant cancer molecules.