Integrated Cancer Research Center Seminar Series

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Event Details
Contact

John McDonald, PhD

Summaries

Summary Sentence: "Engineering Cellular Mechanical Systems to Study and Diagnose Oncologic and Hematologic Disorders" - Wilbur A. Lam, MD, PhD - Georgia Tech & Emory University

Full Summary: Georgia Tech has been a leader in the development of collaborative approaches to both cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. The mission of the Integrated Cancer Research Center (ICRC) is to facilitate integration of the diversity of technological, computational, scientific and medical expertise at Georgia Tech and partner institutions in a coordinated effort to develop improved cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.

"Engineering Cellular Mechanical Systems to Study and Diagnose Oncologic and Hematologic Disorders"

Wilbur A. Lam, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Department of Pediatrics
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta / Emory University School of Medicine
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

Our interdisciplinary laboratory, comprising clinicians, engineers, and biologists, is dedicated to applying and developing micro/nanotechnologies to study, diagnose, and treat blood disorders, cancer, and childhood diseases. This unique "basement to bench to bedside" approach to biomedical research is enabled by our lab’s dual locations at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Georgia Institute of Technology and our affiliations with the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta hospitals.

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), Bioengineering Graduate Program

Invited Audience
Undergraduate students, Faculty/Staff, Graduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
IBB, ICRC Seminar
Status
  • Created By: Colly Mitchell
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Aug 1, 2013 - 10:13am
  • Last Updated: Apr 13, 2017 - 5:24pm