SAN ANTONIO (May 12, 2009) — Miniaturizing devices to a billion times smaller than a meter may one day help heart attack patients and others. The public can learn more at a “Medical Applications of Nanotechnology” lecture Monday, May 18, at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
James R. Baker Jr., M.D., director of the Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is the invited speaker for the second Milka Mukhova Montiel, M.D., Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the UT Health Science Center Department of Pathology. Dr. Baker and his colleagues hold 14 patents related to his research interests.
He will speak at 4 p.m. Monday in Lecture Hall 409L of the School of Medicine building on the Health Science Center’s Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Campus, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive. The public is invited. Parking is in a visitor lot; guests may bring their tickets to have them stamped after the lecture.
The event honors Dr. Montiel, a pathology faculty member at the Health Science Center from 1973 to 2002. Among her contributions, she was a leader in the development of pathology services at the Health Science Center’s teaching hospital, University Hospital, and in the Department of Pathology’s labs.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is the leading research institution in South Texas and one of the major health sciences universities in the world. With an operating budget of $668 million, the Health Science Center is the chief catalyst for the $16.3 billion biosciences and health care sector in San Antonio’s economy. The Health Science Center has had an estimated $36 billion impact on the region since inception and has expanded to six campuses in San Antonio, Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg. More than 25,600 graduates (physicians, dentists, nurses, scientists and other health professionals) serve in their fields, including many in Texas. Health Science Center faculty are international leaders in cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, aging, stroke prevention, kidney disease, orthopaedics, research imaging, transplant surgery, psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, pain management, genetics, nursing, dentistry and many other fields. For more information, visit www.uthscsa.edu.