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Nanotechnology for Oligonucleotide Based Drug delivery
Dal-Hee Min
Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, KAIST, Goosung-Dong 373-1, Yousung-Gu,
Daejeon, 305-701, Korea (ROK). E-mail: [email protected]; Fax:+82-42-350-2810; Tel:
+82-42-350-2848.
Biotechnology is an emerging area of scientific and technological opportunity, which requires
multi-disciplinary efforts ranging from basic sciences to engineering and technological
development. A major theme of biotechnology includes development of micro/nanoscale tools for
studying biosystems.
Specific research fields include developing platforms to assay biological
and biochemical events—enzymatic activity assays and biomolecular interactions—for diagnostic
tools and/or drug screening. In another approach, nanoparticles such as qdots are actively
harnessed for biosensors, cancer imaging, and targeted drug delivery in the same realm. The talk
will cover applications of micro/nano-biotechnology in biomedical research area, emphasizing
development of multi-functional nanoparticles for oligonucleotide (siRNA, ASDNA, etc.) based
drug delivery.
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