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SUMMARY:Nanotechnology for Medicine - Professor James Tour\, Rice Universi
 ty\, USA
DTSTART:20131023T130000Z
DTEND:20131023T140000Z
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CONTACT:Sian Bunnage
DESCRIPTION:Nanometer-sized carbon carriers\, hydrophilic carbon clusters 
 (HCCs)\, have been developed for targeted drug delivery for cancer chemoth
 erapy.  In vitro and in vivo applications in head and neck\, breast and br
 ain (glioblastoma) cancers will be shown.  The HCCs and related carbon nan
 oparticles are also potent and selective antioxidants\, able to annihilate
  large amounts of superoxide while converting the superoxide to molecular 
 oxygen with no downstream radical formation.  Moreover\, the nanoparticles
  do not react with the important vasodilator nitric oxide.  Extensive in v
 itro\, electron paramagnetic resonance and in vivo studies have been done.
   Applications in the treatment of traumatic brain injury/haemorrhagic sho
 ck and stroke will be discussed.
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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