Proceedings of the 6^th World Congress
on Recent Advances in Nanotechnology (RAN 2021)

Dr. Elena Batrakova
The University of North Carolina, USA
NDDTE 2021 Plenary Speaker

Elena V. Batrakova obtained Ph.D. in Polymer chemistry at the Department of Polymers, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia. Since 2012, she is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. For more than twenty years, she has been studying the assembly and applications of drug-loaded nanocarriers. Recently, the main focus of Dr. Batrakova’s group is on the development of personalized drug delivery systems by loading therapeutics into immune response cells or extracellular vesicles (EVs) released from these cells. Specifically, her group developed and characterized EV-based drug delivery systems for therapeutic proteins, nucleic acids, and low molecular chemotherapeutics to treat Parkinson’s disease, stroke, ALS, HIV-related dementia, and cancer. Overall, she has published over 130 papers and filed 20+ US and foreign patents on the application of drug delivery systems of biologically active molecules. She is a highly cited of total 10 scientists at UNC, and a Thomson Reuters agency named her top 1% Highly Cited Researcher.

Topic of Keynote: Using Extracellular Vesicles for Brain Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins

Dr. Jonathan Coulter
Queen's University Belfast, UK
NDDTE 2021 Keynote

Dr. Coulter is a Senior Lecturer, working within the Nanomedicine and Biotherapeutics research group at the School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast. His research has always had a focus on developing strategies to overcome treatment resistance in cancer, with a specific focus on radiotherapy. His work has spanned approaches that include the use of suicide gene therapy and more recently exploiting the unique physical properties of high atomic number nanoparticles as radiosensitisers. Recent iterations have been developed as biologically active formulations, designed to overcome tumour microenvironment properties which are known to confer treatment resistance, in addition to the core particle acting as a radiation dose modifier. This presentation aims to outline some of the successes we have experienced in this space while looking to spark discussion around the key challenges that have limited clinical translation to date.

Topic of Keynote: Development And Pre-Clinical Validation Of Multi-Functional Radiosensitising Nanoparticles - Successes And Challenges

Dr. Swadeshmukul Santra
University Of Central Florida, USA
NDDTE 2021 Keynote

Swadeshmukul Santra, PhD received his Ph. D. degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India and postdoctoral study at the University of Florida.

Dr. Santra is a Professor at UCF holding a joint appointment with the NanoScience Technology Center and the Department of Chemistry. He is the Director of UCF Materials Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) Center. He has been actively working in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for over 20 years. He has published 78 peer-reviewed research articles, 7 review articles, 11 book chapters and delivered 96 invited talks. He has been awarded 31 patents including 26 US patents. His research has been funded by NSF, USDA, Citrus Research and Development Foundation, Environmental Research and Education Foundation and several industries with a portfolio of over $5.6M research funding.

Dr. Santra is a Steering Committee Member of NanoFlorida International Conference 2019. He is serving as the Vice President of Florida Association for Nanobiotechnology (FAN), 2019-2021. He is the founding faculty member of NanoFlorida and UCF MISA Center. He is a member of several professional societies including ACS, MRS, AVS and AAAS.

Topic of Keynote: Quantum Dot Nanotechnology for Bioimaging and Drug Delivery Applications

Dr. Dejian Zhou
Leeds University, UK
NDDTE 2021 Keynote

Dejian Zhou is full Professor of Nanochemistry at University of Leeds, UK. He obtained his BSc and PhD in Chemistry both from Peking University, China. Following postdoctoral research at Cranfield University and University of Cambridge, he was appointed to a Senior Lecturer at University of Leeds in 2007 and promoted to Professor of Nanochemistry in 2018.

He is pursuing a polyvalent multifunctional nanoparticle strategy to address some important biomedical challenges, e.g. early detection and targeted multimodal treatment of cancer; probing structural mechanisms and developing new therapeutics targeting specific lectin-glycan interactions. He has published 4 book chapters and ~150 research papers (including 2 research highlights on the BBC) in some leading journals, e.g. Nature Nanotech., Adv. Mater., JACS, Angew. Chem.

He has received several awards and recognitions, Young Chemist Award (Chinese Chemical Society, 1996), National Excellent PhD Thesis Award (Ministry of Education, China, 1999) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2016). He is an Associate Editor of Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (Elsevier, IF: 6.02), and sits on the Editorial Board of Sensors (MDPI, IF: 3.28) and Advisory Board of Particle & Particle System Characterization (Wiley-VCH, IF: 3.83).

Topic of Keynote:Polyvalent Multifunctional Nanoparticles: A Powerful Tool to Address Various Biomedical Challenges

Dr. Seongtae Bae
University of South Carolina, USA
NDDTE 2021 Keynote

Prof. Seongtae Bae received Ph. D degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA in 2003.

He is currently working as an assistant professor and a director of “Nanobiomagnetics and Bioelectronics Laboratory (NB2L)” in the department of electrical engineering at the University of South Carolina (UofSC), Columbia, USA. In addition, he has a joint appointment with biomedical engineering program in the college of engineering and computing at UofSC. Prior to joining the UofSC, he was an associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at the Seoul National University (SNU) college of medicine, Seoul, KOREA, and he was also an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) (Singapore) for 9 years before joining SNU. While he was at the SNU, he was doing clinically translatable biomedical researches to develop magnetic nanofluid hyperthermia systems for brain tumors and bioelectronics engineering researches to design and commercialize new types of bioinstrumentations and medical devices/electronics for neurodegenerative diseases, neuromodulation, and cancers. Furthermore, while he was at the NUS, he established “Biomagnetics Laboratory (BML)” in 2005 to support basic applied researches and education in the field of biomagnetics, nanomedicine, and applied biospintronics. Prof. Bae’s current research interests are focused on 1) Magnetic nanofluid hyperthermia and its clinical applications in nanomedicine, 2) Nanomagnetic biometerials and ferrite nanoparticles/Nanofluids for biomedical applications, 3) Nano-/Microstructures magnetic biosensors and bioMEMS for bioelectronics, 4) Extremely low frequency electomagnetic devices for therapeutics and healing, 5) Bioelectromagnetism and bioelectricity for neural engineering and neuromodulation, 6) Bioinstrumentation/medical electronics & devices for neurodegenerative diseases, 7) Nano-scale spintronics structures and devices for active/passive digital/analog electronics, 8) Nanostructured magnetic/electronics thin films and devices, 9) Designing and processing of materials for spintronics for advanced electronic devices, and 10) Bioelectric/spintronic based hybrid power generators for energy sustainability.

Prof. Bae is currently members/board member/editorial board member of IEEE Magnetics Society, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, American Physics Society (APS), Korean Society for Nanomedicine, Society for Thermal Medicine (STM), International Society of Hyperthermic Oncology, and EC Ophthalmology.

Topic of Keynote: Colossal magnetic heat induction of Magnesium shallow doped γ-Fe2O3 nanofluids and somatically safe AC magnetic field generator system for clinical safe hyperthermia

Dr. Ian Manners
University of Victoria, Canada
ICNNFC 2021 Keynote

Ian Manners is Canadian and British. He was born in London, England and, after receiving his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in the UK he conducted postdoctoral work in Germany and then in the USA. He joined the University of Toronto, Canada as an Assistant Professor in 1990 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1995 and was made a Canada Research Chair in 2001. In 2006 he returned to the UK to take up a Chair at the University of Bristol in Inorganic, Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry supported by an EU Marie Curie Chair. In 2018 he was awarded a Canada 150 Research Chair at the University of Victoria, Canada on Vancouver Island where he has set up a new research group.

Ian’s research interests broadly focus on synthetic problems at molecular, macromolecular, and longer length scales. His current research projects include: catalytic main group chemistry and main group polymers, functional metallopolymers, crystallization-driven self-assembly of polymers, and nanoelectronics, catalysis, and nanomedicine with soft materials. He is the recipient of a wide range of national and international awards including a Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (from the US), the Steacie Prize (from Canada), the RSC Award in Main Group Chemistry, and a Humboldt Research Award from Germany. Most recently he received the RSC de Gennes Prize (2017) and a 1000 Talents Award from China (2018) to support a Distinguished Visiting Professorship and satellite lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Ian’s work is documented in ca. 750 career publications and 4 books and has been presented in ca. 560 invited lectures worldwide. He is an elected member of both the Canadian and the British National Academies of Science.

Topic of Keynote: Functional Nanoparticles via “Living” Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly

Dr. Dongyang Li
University of Alberta, Canada
ICNNFC 2021 Keynote

Dr. Dongyang Li is a Professor at Dept. of Chemical & Materials Eng., University of Alberta. His interests of research include materials design, nano-materials, wear and corrosion, and computational materials science. Dr. Li is on the editorial board for eighteen technical journals and is the recipient of MetSoc 2020 Distinguished Materials Scientist Award in recognition as a renowned scientist and innovative researcher in tribo-materials (The Metallurgy and Materials Society). Dr. Li has in excess of 370 technical publications, including more than 330 journal publications. He is an invited contributor for authoritative handbooks (Elsevier, Springer, and ASM International). Dr. Li is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FMMM) and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP).

Topic of Keynote: Explore the Application of Electron Work Function in Material Design towards “Electronic Metallurgy”