The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Sciences at NDSU has invited distinguished scientist Ratneshwar Lal to deliver a research lecture and to meet with department faculty and graduate students. He will present “Emerging Nanoscience and Technology for Nanomedicine” on Tuesday, March 2, at 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Sudro Hall Room 26.
Lal earned a master's degree and master of philosophy in physics and biophysics from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and a doctorate in neurobiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. After postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, he was a faculty member at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Santa Barbara before assuming his current position as professor and director of the newly established Center of Nanomedicine at the University of Chicago.
Lal is an authority on biomedical applications of atomic force microscopy and nanoscale imaging of complex biological systems. He has presented many international keynote lectures and his work has been featured in many popular magazines and news media, including Time, Smithsonian and UPI. Lal was an invited professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, for a BioNanotechnology initiative and a New Zealand Government International Science Scholar. Lal is on advisory boards for several entrepreneurial companies, including RC Nano LLC and Be Green Packaging LLC.
His research involves the development of nanotechnologies for nanomedicine, energy and biomaterials. In addition to seminal research publications in the field of nanomedicine, Lal holds several patents based on atomic force microscopy cantilever arrays, microfluidics, optoelectronics and nanotubes for medical diagnostics and medical nanodevices, nanoscale fluid behavior and new total internal reflection fluorescence, fluorescence resonance energy transfer and related optical microscopy.
The seminar is open to anyone interested in pharmaceutical and biomedical research. For more information, contact Jagdish Singh at 1-7943.
