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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Special Seminar<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black'>Location: E313</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black'>Time: 11:30 am, Thursday, 3/22/12<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Nanotoxicity and Novel Cancer Nanomedicine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Yuliang Zhao </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>National Center for Nanoscience and Technology</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Chinese Academy of Sciences</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Yuliang Zhao, Ph.D. is a Professor and Deputy Director-General of National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>, the Director of </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Chinese Academy of Sciences</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> Key Laboratory</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>, and the Co-</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Director</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> of </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Research Center for Cancer Nanotechnology, CAS & Tianjin Canc</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>er Hospital. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Prof. Zhao initiated the nanotoxicology study in China in 2001 and hence became one of the earliest scientists studying the toxicity properties of engineered nanomaterials and nanosafety issues worldwide. </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>H</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>is</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> research interests span both basic and translational research including </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Nanotoxicology, Low-toxic nanomedicine for cancer therapy, Nanochemistry for reducing the toxicity of nanomaterials/nanomedicines, and Molecular Dynamics simulation of biochemical processes at nano-bio interface</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>. H</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>is</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> primary research focus is on</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> the toxic properties of nanomaterials, and</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> development of novel</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> nanomedicine of low-toxicity (without delivery systems) for low-toxic cancer chemotherapy, especially, proposed the use of non-killing cell mechanism to inhibit cancer growth by nanostructure materials</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>. </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>H</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>e is the author of over </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>20</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>0 </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>SCI </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>publications, </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>10 books, </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>and </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>17 </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>book chapters as well as an inventor on </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>eight</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> patents. </span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>He is now serving as Associate Editor/Advisory Editorial Board member for 7 SCI journals in USA and Europe. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#244061'>Contact Prof. Jiming Bao (<a href="mailto:jbao@uh.edu"><span style='color:#244061'>jbao@uh.edu</span></a>) if you would like to arrange for a time to meet with Prof. </span><span style='color:#1F497D'>Zhao</span><span style='color:#244061'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>