James W. Tunnell - Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Phone: (512) 232-2110, Fax: (512) 471-0616, E-mail: jtunnell@mail.utexas.edu Dr. Tunnell's Web site. Dr. James W. Tunnell earned his Ph.D. in bioengineering from Rice University in 2002. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2005. | AUSTIN, Texas –A biomedical engineering assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute grant to conduct nanoparticle cancer research. Grant recipient James Tunnell says the five-year project will include collaboration with other researchers from the university, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University of California at Irvine. The project will focus on the development of molecular imaging technologies for the screening, diagnosis and therapy of cancer. Recent advancements in nanotechnologies have produced a class of optically active metal particles with highly desirable molecular and optical properties suitable for detection and treatment. "We will design nanoparticles that can be injected into the bloodstream where they will seek out and attach themselves to cancer cells within the body," Tunnell says. "In this case, the particles themselves are identifying the cancer cells, and we can then image the nanoparticles in order to find the cancer." |
"Our goal is to detect and treat cancer at the cellular level and at its earliest stage when survival rates are highest," Tunnell says. ###
The collaborators on the project include the university's Brian Korgel, chemical engineering professor, and Pengyu Ren, biomedical engineering assistant professor; M.D. Anderson's Sunil Krishnan and the University of California at Irvine's Anthony Durkin and David Cuccia.
Contact: James Tunnell jtunnell@mail.utexas.edu 512-232-2110 University of Texas at Austin
Tags: Nano or Nanotechnology and Nanotech
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Nice article. My Mother's Maiden name is Tunnell. My grandfather always said the Tunnell Family were very smart and gifted.
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