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.



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