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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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May 7-11, 2007


Congratulations
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Dr. Allan Hoffman has been selected to receive the 2007 Founders’ Award from the Controlled Release Society, recognizing a lifetime of achievement in controlled release for drug delivery. This award, the most prestigious offered by the CRS, provides international recognition for a body of work that has yielded outstanding contributions. Dr. Hoffman will receive the Founders’ Award at the 2007 CRS Annual Meeting & Exposition, which will be in Long Beach, California, in July.


Exam
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**Kok-Yong Seng
    PhD final exam
    Friday, May 11 at 9 a.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Fuzzy Simulation and Fuzzy Identification in Individual Pharmacokinetics and
        Pharmacodynamics"
    Drs. Paolo Vicini (advisor), Ivan Nestorov (ZymoGenetics, Inc.; affiliate faculty in
        Bioengineering), Michael Regnier, and Monica Jarrett (GSR; Biobehavioral Nursing and
        Health Systems)


Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, May 10 from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m.
    Benson 117
    Shraddha Deodar, Chemistry graduate student
        "Testing the Bactericidal Ability of a Polycationic Molecule to Design Self-Healing
            Surfaces"
    Jeanette Stein, Bioengineering graduate student
        "Understanding the Protein Resistance of Non-fouling Materials through Interfacial Water
            Structure"

**Nanotechnology (599F)
    Tuesday, May 8 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
    Bagley 260
    Dr. Subra Muralidharan, professor
    Western Michigan University, Nanotechnology Research and Computation Center
    "Bionanomaterials from Flagella of Mesophilic Bacteria"

**Bioengineering (599O)
    Thursday, May 10 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Xiaohu Gao, assistant professor
    UW Bioengineering
    "Quantum Dot Nanotechnology for Cancer Research"