Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Particles

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Jeffrey N. Anker is a Wallace R. Roy Distinguished Professor of Chemistryand BioEngineering at Clemson University. He earned his BS degree inapplied physics at Yale University in 1998. He earned his doctorate at TheUniversity of Michigan in 2005 working for Professor Raoul Kopelmanto develop magnetically modulated optical nanoprobes (MagMOONs) tomeasure chemical concentrations and mechanical properties of solutions. Forthis work he was awarded a grand prize at the 2002 National InventorsHall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition. From 2005 to 2008Dr. Anker worked as an NIH National Science Research Award (NSRA)postdoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University under the guidance of ProfessorRichard Van Duyne. His postdoctoral research focused on developing real-time high-resolutionplasmonic nanosensors. He joined the Clemson Chemistry Department in August 2008. Currentresearch focuses on imaging and spectroscopy using magnetic plasmonic x-ray excited microandnanosensors implantable sensors orthopedic devices and medical imaging. Along withThompson Mefford he founded the Frontiers in BioMagnetic Particles Meeting Series. Awardsinclude: NSF CAREER award (2013); Clemson Faculty Collaboration Award (2014); ClemsonUniversity School of Health Research (CUSHR) and Greenville Health System EmbeddedFaculty Fellow (2018); University Research Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award(USRAAA) (2018); and senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (2019).O. Thompson Mefford is an Associate Professor in the Department ofMaterials Science Engineering where he holds a David and Mary Ann BishopDeans Professorship along with an additional appointment in the Departmentof Bioengineering at Clemson University. He earned his BS degreein Polymer and Textile Chemistry at Clemson in 2003 and a PhD inMacromolecular Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2007where he worked on the development of treatments for retinal detachmentusing hydrophobic ferrofluids. Before returning back to Clemson Dr. Mefforddeveloped methods for the fabrication and functionalization of microfluidicdevices as a Post-doctoral Researcher for The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry.Dr. Mefford joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson inthe Fall of 2008. His research focuses on developing stable polymer-iron oxide nanoparticlecomplexes and composites for biomedical applications. These applications include developingmaterials for magnetically modulated energy delivery MRI contrast agents and drug deliverysystems. He currently organizes the Frontiers in Magnetic Particles Conference (www.magneticnanoparticle.com). In his free time Dr. Mefford is found running cycling sailingbackpacking and home brewing.