Kimberly Homan, a doctoral student working in Professor Stanislav Emelianov’s lab, won the “Best Presentation Award” at the Graduate Portfolio Program in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Student Presentation Competition.
Kimberly Homan, a doctoral student working in Professor Stanislav Emelianov’s lab, won the “Best Presentation Award” at the Graduate Portfolio Program in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Student Presentation Competition. Homan’s presentation, “Silver Nanoplate Photoacoustic Contrast Agents for Pancreatic Cancer,” competed against presentations from of other students in the program.
Homan’s research focuses on building nanosystems with encapsulated chemotherapeutic drugs that are targeted to pancreatic cancer. The intent of her research is to both deliver drugs at the cancer site while simultaneously providing photoacoustic imaging capabilities in order to visualize the tumor.
The Graduate Portfolio Program in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is a certification program that provides an opportunity for doctoral students to obtain credentials in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology while they are completing the requirements for a doctoral degree in a particular discipline.
