Contact Information

 

Physical Address

Dell Butcher Hall Rm. 360

Rice University

Houston, TX 77005

 

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 1892, MS-60

Houston, TX 77251-1892

 

Phone: (713) 348-3476

Fax: (713) 348-5155

 

Rice University

 

Department of Chemistry

 

 

Last Updated: 06/17/2011

TEXAS

Rice University (Houston, TX)

Antonios G. Mikos

R. Bruce Weisman

 

Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX)

Michael Lewis

Robia G. Pautler

 

Methodist Hospital (Houston, TX)

Paolo Decuzzi

David Engler

Mauro Ferrari

Kelvin Wong

Stephen Wong

 

St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital (Houston, TX)

Maria da Graca Cabreira-Hansen

Raja Muthupillai

Emerson Perin

James T. Willerson

 

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX)

Steven A. Curley

Chun Li

Michael G. Rosenblum

 

University of Houston (Houston, TX)

Irene Rusakova

 

 

NATIONAL

 

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)

David Scheinberg

 

National Institute of Health (Bethesda, MD)

Murali Cherukuri

 

National Insitute of Standards and Technology (Boulder, CO)

Ronald Goldfarb

 

TDA Research, Inc. (Wheatridge, CO)

Robert D. Bolskar

 

University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)

Gary Erhardt

 

University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

D. Scott Wilbur

 

 

INTERNATIONAL

 

CNRS (Orleans, France)

Eva Toth

 

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Lothar Helm

Andre E. Merbach

 

Institut fur Klinische Radiologie (München, Germany)

Frank Berger

 

Oxford University (Oxford, England)

Kieran Clarke

 

University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Erlangen, Germany)

Andreas Hirsch

 

University Medical Center Nijmegen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

John A. Jansen

 

Universite Paris-Sud (Malabry, France)

Fathi Moussa

 

 

 

Fundamental Properties of Carbon Nanostructures

- Functionalization of SWNTs and C₆₀ fullerenes for biocompatibility and targeting applications using peptides and antibodies (Yuri)

- Water-solubilization of ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotubes (Ayrat)

 

Diagnostic Agent Design

- Iodonanotubes (I₂@US-tubes) as cellular labels for CT X-ray imaging (Eladio)

- Manganogadonanotubes (MnGd@US-tubes)as a new high-performance T₁-weighted MRI contrast agent (Meghan)

- PET/MRI bimodal imaging agents derived from SWNTs (Michael) (Justin)

- Gadonanotubes (Gd@US-tubes) as magnetic nanolabels for stem cell detection (Lesa)

 

Therapeutic Agent Design

- C₆₀ fullerene immunoconjugates for cancer therapy (Scott)

- Platinum-loaded SWNTs as "smart" cancer chemotherapeutics (Adem)

- Radiofrequency-induced hyperthermia of carbon nanoparticles for cancer therapy (Matthew)

- Radiofrequency-induced hyperthermia of gold nanoparticles as a function of size and shape for cancer therapy (Sophia)

- Gadonanotube-Si nanoparticle nanocomposites for theranostic medicine (Richa)

- Gadonanotubes for the magnetic manipulation of stem cells for cardiovascular regenerative medicine (Lesa)

- Magnetic cell sorting and isolation of cancer stem cells using Gadonanotubes (Meghan)