Category Archives: Nanotechnology
TEDxFIU Talk on Nanotechnology to Treat Cancer
On November 9, 2015, Sakhrat Khizroev and Carolyn Runowicz gave a TEDxFIU talk on their research to use multifunctional nanoparticles to treat cancer.
Related Papers
- A. Rodzinski, R. Guduru, P. Liang, A. Hadjikhani, T. Stewart, E. Stimphil, C. Runowicz, R. Cote, N. Altman, R. Datar, and S. Khizroev (2016). Targeted and controlled anticancer drug delivery and release with magnetoelectric nanoparticles. Scientific Reports 6, 20867.
- R. Guduru, P. Liang, C. Runowicz, M. Nair, V. Alturi, and S. Khizroev (2013). Magnetoelectric nanoparticles to enable field-controlled high-specificity drug delivery to eradicate ovarian cancer cells. Scientific Reports 3, 2953.
The Remote-Controlled Brain
The Center’s research on using magnetoelectric nanoparticles (MENs) to enable wireless deep-brain stimulation has landed on a list of Discover magazine’s top 100 science stories of 2015. A groundbreaking nanotechnology procedure directed by the FIU team has earned spot no. 48 on a comprehensive listing that covers fields from space exploration to medicine, technology, paleontology and environment. The study conducted on mice has for the first time proven that multifunctional nanoparticles allow to externally connect to the complex electric circuitry in the brain and thus open many new possibilities to treat neurological diseases and disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease, Autism, and many others as well as pave a way to reverse-engineering the brain.
In the News
- Article in New Scientist by Hal Hadson. 20 Billion Nanoparticles Talk to the Brain Using Electricity, June 8, 2015.
Related Papers
- R. Guduru, P. Liang, J. Hong, A. Rodzinski, A. Hadjikhani, J. Horstmer, E. Levister, and S. Khizroev (2015). Magnetoelectric “spin” on stimulating the brain. Nanomedicine (London) 10 (13), 2051-2061.
- K. Yue, R. Guduru, J. Hong, P. Liang, M. Nair, and S. Khizroev (2012). Magneto-electric nanoparticles for non-invasive brain stimulation. PLoS 7(9), e44040.
- M. Nair, R. Guduru, P. Liang, J. Hong, V. Sagar, and S. Khizroev (2013). Externally-controlled on-demand release of anti-HIV drug AZTTP using magneto-electric nanoparticles as carriers. Nature Communications 4, 1707.