Pacific Rim Symposium on Surfaces, Coatings and Interfaces (PacSurf 2018)
    Biomaterial Surfaces & Interfaces Tuesday Sessions
       Session BI-TuE

Invited Paper BI-TuE4
Future Directions and Challenges in Biomedical Surface Analysis

Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 6:40 pm, Room Naupaka Salon 6-7

Session: 35 Years of NESAC/BIO II
Presenter: Lara Gamble, University of Washington
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The NESAC/BIO center has been running as very successful NIH NIBIB funded P41 center since 1983. We are making plans for the future growth and expansion of the center resources and expertise. Our work and advances in ToF-SIMS imaging and analysis have prompted a lot of interest among biomedical academic as well as the clinical research community. As a result, we have developed many new tools and capabilities to improve sub-cellular resolution ToF-SIMS analysis of cells and tissues. In the future, the focus of the center will be to provide multimodal information in three dimensions addressing key questions to biomedical issues. While we have proposed instrumentation and research towards this end in the current proposal, we will also be building collaborations nationally with leading groups that have interests in cell and tissue 3D chemical analysis on a vertical and lateral scale that will take advantage of the resolution our NESACBIO surface characterization tools.