The Seventh Nanotechnology for Health Care Conference - Project Summary
2018 Nanotechnology for Health Care Conference
To be held on December 6-9, 2018, the 2018 Nanotechnology for Health Care
Conference marks the seventh in a fruitful series of gatherings focused on
nanotechnology and its many uses for health care. Together with a scientific planning
committee comprising members from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the
National Center for Toxicological Research, we at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute bring
together researchers and specialists from around the region and occasionally around the
world to participate and share their knowledge. The conference partners represent some
of the foremost research institutions in the state of Arkansas and an internationally
certified conference center (WRI). This ongoing partnership ensures that the topics and
plenary speakers chosen are relevant to the current trends in the industry and that the
conference itself will be operated smoothly and efficiently.
This year, the Nanotechnology for Health Care Conference will have a special focus on
EPSCoR-related research, most notably through a new conference planning partnership
with Arkansas’s Center for Advanced Surface Engineering (CASE). Grown through the
state’s NSF EPSCoR program, CASE embodies the spirit of the Nanotechnology for
Health Care Conference by focusing on ways to bolster Arkansas’s knowledge economy,
increase research collaboration and turn work in the labs of Arkansas into viable products
utilized around the world. This seventh conference will see the very same goals, but with
an intensive focus at the cross-section of nanotechnology and health care. In that way,
this conference will carry on the tradition of the many held before it by continuing the long
term conference goals of strengthening the research community in the South and
providing access to the greatest minds in the field, thereby increasing the region’s
contributions to practical health care applications for nanotechnology.
