Re: Nanomaterials in drug delivery and cancer
About the Organizers : Hamid Zaman is an Asst. Prof. in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Cell and Molecular Biology and member of Institute of Theoretical Chemistry as well as Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and of Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology at UT Austin. He obtained his PhD from the Chemistry Department at the University of Chicago, focusing on the protein folding, dynamics and interactions. His current research focuses on developing interdisciplinary tools to study interaction of cells with extra-cellular matrices, particularly in cancer progression and metastasis. He has developed new techniques, both theoretically and experimentally to study this problem. Hamid has and continues to publish extensively in highly prestigious international journals. His research has been recognized broadly through various international awards. In 2007, he was awarded the FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) Young Investigator Award in Matrix Biology, an award rarely given to anyone outside the European Union. Recently, he was also named International Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. His work on cell migration in 3D, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was hailed world-wide as one of the major breakthroughs in cancer in 2006. Prior to his position at UT Austin, Hamid was Hermann and Margaret Sokol Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT and was a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Graduate Fellow at the University of Chicago during his Ph.D. During his undergraduate, Hamid was also the awarded Alfred Crabaugh Outstanding Senior Award, given to the best undergraduate student at the entire University. More information about Hamid’s work at UT Austin is available at zlabs.bme.utexas.edu.