BME BREAKS: Simone Schürle-Finke, PhD, ETH Zürich
Friday,
July 10, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online Event
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TwitterOn Friday, July 10th @ 12:00PM EDT, we welcome Dr. Simone Schürle-Finke from ETH Zürich as she presents, “Engineering micro- and nanorobots for medicine.”
ABOUT THE JULY 10 WEBINAR
Site specific diagnostics and effective, localized therapy delivery remain challenge tasks in today’s medicine. To address this need, my laboratory develops micro- and nanosystems that respond to disease-specific biochemical cues or non-invasive external stimuli like magnetic fields such that they focus their action at the site of disease. In this talk, I describe synthetically engineered systems that are either activated or detected via magnetic fields and can give information about a tumors molecular activity. Moreover, I will show how an individual, synthetic and swarms of living magnetic microbots can help to locally enhance transport of nanodrug shuttles to tissue sites in a model system.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Simone Schürle-Finke, PhD
Assistant Professor
ETH Zürich
Simone Schuerle is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she heads the Responsive Biomedical System Lab. With her team, she develops diagnostic and therapeutic systems at the nano-and microscale with the aim of tackling a range of challenging problems in medicine. Prior to taking this position, she researched at MIT on nanosensors for in vivo tumor profiling as well methods to wirelessly enhance drug transport (2014-2017). She is recipient of several awards and fellowships and was honored with the distinction of “Young Scientist” by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for her scientific contributions to society. In 2014 she co-founded the spin-off MagnebotiX that offers electromagnetic control systems for wireless micromanipulation. She earned her PhD degree with specialization in microrobotics in 2013 at ETHZ and a masters in engineering with specialization on microsystems and nanotechnology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
BME BREAKS SCHEDULE
July 17 - Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD, Columbia University BME
“Engineering human tissues for medical impact”
July 24 - Rong Gan, PhD, University of Oklahoma
“Measurement and modeling of blast-induced auditory injury in animal model of chinchilla”
July 31 - Elham Azizi, PhD, Columbia University BME
“Machine learning for modeling the dynamics of the tumor microenvironment”
August 7 - James J. Collins, PhD, MIT
“Synthetic biology: life redesigned”
August 14 - José McFaline-Figueroa, PhD, University of Washington
“Defining drug-induced molecular landscapes with multiplex single-cell genomics”
August 21 - Christoph Juchem, PhD, Columbia University BME
“Magnetic resonance engineering - from bench to bedside”
ABOUT THE JULY 10 WEBINAR
Site specific diagnostics and effective, localized therapy delivery remain challenge tasks in today’s medicine. To address this need, my laboratory develops micro- and nanosystems that respond to disease-specific biochemical cues or non-invasive external stimuli like magnetic fields such that they focus their action at the site of disease. In this talk, I describe synthetically engineered systems that are either activated or detected via magnetic fields and can give information about a tumors molecular activity. Moreover, I will show how an individual, synthetic and swarms of living magnetic microbots can help to locally enhance transport of nanodrug shuttles to tissue sites in a model system.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Simone Schürle-Finke, PhD
Assistant Professor
ETH Zürich
Simone Schuerle is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she heads the Responsive Biomedical System Lab. With her team, she develops diagnostic and therapeutic systems at the nano-and microscale with the aim of tackling a range of challenging problems in medicine. Prior to taking this position, she researched at MIT on nanosensors for in vivo tumor profiling as well methods to wirelessly enhance drug transport (2014-2017). She is recipient of several awards and fellowships and was honored with the distinction of “Young Scientist” by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for her scientific contributions to society. In 2014 she co-founded the spin-off MagnebotiX that offers electromagnetic control systems for wireless micromanipulation. She earned her PhD degree with specialization in microrobotics in 2013 at ETHZ and a masters in engineering with specialization on microsystems and nanotechnology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
BME BREAKS SCHEDULE
July 17 - Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD, Columbia University BME
“Engineering human tissues for medical impact”
July 24 - Rong Gan, PhD, University of Oklahoma
“Measurement and modeling of blast-induced auditory injury in animal model of chinchilla”
July 31 - Elham Azizi, PhD, Columbia University BME
“Machine learning for modeling the dynamics of the tumor microenvironment”
August 7 - James J. Collins, PhD, MIT
“Synthetic biology: life redesigned”
August 14 - José McFaline-Figueroa, PhD, University of Washington
“Defining drug-induced molecular landscapes with multiplex single-cell genomics”
August 21 - Christoph Juchem, PhD, Columbia University BME
“Magnetic resonance engineering - from bench to bedside”
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