8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45 Welcome and Introduction - Ari Requicha, Gordon Marshall Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, and Fellow of USC's Center for Interdisciplinary Research.
8:45-9:30 The Biology of Human Cancer - Peter Jones, Distinguished Professor, Director of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, USC Keck School of Medicine.
9:30-10:15 BioNEMS for Single-Cell and Single-Molecule Sensing - Michael Roukes, Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, and Professor of Physics, Applied Physics and Bioengineering, Caltech.
10:15-10:30 Coffe Break
10:30-10:50 From Molecules to Devices: The Perspective from the Living System - Walter Wolf, Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USC School of Pharmacy.
10:50-11:10 Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Nanotubes - Chongwu Zhou, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
11:10-11:30 Nanoparticles and Their Applications in vivo - Mihri Ozkan, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Riverside.
11:30-11:50 Computer Simulation of Cancer Progression and Response to Chemotherapy - Vittorio Cristini, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Irvine.
11:50-12:10 Nanoactuator Survey - Ari Requicha.
12:10-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 The Cancer Nanotechnology Plan - Mauro Ferrari, Special Expert on Nanotechnology, NCI; Edgar C. Hendrickson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Ohio State University (OSU); Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, OSU; Associate Vice President, Health Sciences Technology and Commercialization, OSU.
2:15-3:00 From DNA to Transistors by Genetic Recombination - Erez Braun, Professor of Physics, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
3:00-3:15 Coffe Break
3:15-3:35 Arthritis and Auto-Immune Diseases - Glenn Ehresmann, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine.
3:35-3:55 Distributed Sensor/Actuator Networks- Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA, Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Systems (CENS).
3:55-4:15 Directed Assembly in the LMR: Sensing and Manipulation at the Nanometer Scale under Ambient Conditions with AFM - Bruce Koel, Professor of Chemistry, USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and Professor of Materials Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and Laboratory for Molecular Robotics.
4:15-4:35 Survival Strategies for Millimeter-Scale Injectable Stimulators - Jerry Loeb, MD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Deputy Director of the NSF Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems.
4:35-4:55 Nanotechnology for Cardiovascular Applications - Tzung Hsiai, MD, Assistant Professor of Cardiology, USC Keck School of Medicine, and of Biomedical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
4:55-5:15 Nanobiotechnology Funding Opportunities at NCI - Greg Downing, Director, Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, NCI.
5:15-5:30 Where do we go from here? - Discussion.
5:30 Adjournment
6:00 Dinner with the Speakers (by invitation)