{"62758":{"#nid":"62758","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Katherine Whittaker Ferrara, PhD - Image-Guided Drug Delivery","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ferrara will discuss her work in image-guided drug delivery, including:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- synthesis of drug-loaded nanoparticles\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- development of imaging systems for guided interventions\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- development of  protocols using nanotechnologies for the  treatment of cancer, cardiovascular disease and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- neurodegenerative diseases \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ferrara served as the founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis. She is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis with research interests in imaging and drug delivery. She is a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Acoustical Society of America and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and is currently a member of the National Advisory Council for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ferrrara\u2019s research was featured on CNN:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/ferraralab.bme.ucdavis.edu\/ferrara.cnn.wmv\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/ferraralab.bme.ucdavis.edu\/ferrara.cnn.wmv\u003C\/a\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Distinguished Lecturer:\n\nKatherine Whittaker Ferrara, PhD\nDepartment of Biomedical Engineering\nUniversity of California, Davis","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Katherine Whittaker Ferrara, PhD - Image-Guided Drug Delivery"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2010-09-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:53:28","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-09-16T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-09-16T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-09-16T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-09-16 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-09-16 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-09-16 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"10690","name":"katherine Ferrara"},{"id":"10691","name":"Univ. of California Davis"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EMegan McDevitt\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mcdevitt@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Megan McDevitt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-7001\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}