X-Message-Number: 27266 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:19:06 -0500 From: Jonathan Despres <> Subject: $6.5M nanomedicine center includes Yale engineer New Haven, Conn. --A Yale scientist is among the recipients of a special $6.5 million center grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, intended to rapidly launch revolutionary ideas in the use of nanomedicine and serve as the centerpiece of its Nanomedicine Roadmap Initiative. David A. LaVan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and member of Yale's Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, will participate in the National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors, one of the four centers funded. The center will be led by Professor Eric G. Jakobsson at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The five-year grant will support a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project to design, model, synthesize and fabricate nanomedical devices based on natural and synthetic ion transporters, proteins that control ion motion across the membrane of every living cell. Nanomedicine operates at the biological molecule scale of 100 nanometers or less to cure disease or repair damaged tissues. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. http://www.nanoaging.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1490&mode=&order=0&thold=0 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27266