Environmental and Health Aspects
Sarah Larsen, co-director of the UI’s Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute, is being honored for her educational outreach and for increasing the public’s understanding of nanoscience and nanotechnology. More information on the College of Liberal Arts website
Prof. Jennifer Fiegel, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics & Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, was awarded a NIH R21 grant titled “Development of LOS-Modified Nanoparticles for Improved Airway Epithelial Uptake” on April 1, 2012. The goal of this 2 year grant is to optimize the physicochemical properties of nanoparticle carriers to achieve low mucosal binding, while retaining epithelial uptake in respiratory environments. Prof. Julie Jessop, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, will serve as a co-Investigator on the grant.
The Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute
at The University of Iowa (NNI@UI) was established by The University
of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research in 2006. NNI@UI focuses
on issues related to applications and implications of nanoscience and
nanotechnology in environmental processes and human health, as well
as the fundamental properties of nanomaterials.
The institute includes a core group of faculty and staff from the colleges
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy, Medicine and Public
Health involved in nanoscience and nanotechnology. NNI@UI provides a
venue where researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering
can gather to share ideas and discuss their views and prospects of nanoscience,
nanoengineering, nanomedicine and nanotechnology.
NNI@UI has partnered with a number of interdisciplinary institutes and
centers on campus on a number of cutting edge research areas, including
those related to translational medicine and the societal implications
of nanoscience and nanotechnology.