5月24日上午，美国Rice大学生物工程系Foyt Family讲席教授，CPRIT资深学者，核蛋白及其纳米医学中心主任包刚在生命科学研究中心101报告厅作了题为“EngineeringMagnetic Naoparticles for Molecular Imaging and Therapy”的学术报告。报告会由生科院教授周军主持，相关专业的老师和学生积极参加了此次报告。  

报告会上，包刚首先介绍了实验室的主要研究领域，包括纳米磁性加热，使用多功能纳米粒子进行体内成像,细胞磁性靶向和磁力增强体内药物/基因递送。随后他又介绍了氧化铁磁性纳米粒子的潜在应用和多功能磁性氧化铁纳米粒子成像探针的结构。包刚介绍了在人体内间充质干细胞的磁靶向，实验证明内在的磁性纳米小球不会影响人间充质干细胞的分化。报告会最后包刚与老师和同学们进行了深入的探讨交流，现场气氛活跃，大家都积极踊跃的发表自己的看法，提出自己的问题，包刚为大家一一解惑。此次精彩的学术报告让在场的师生感受到了国际前沿科学的发展脉搏，为研究纳米材料方向的老师及同学们提供了诸多借鉴之处，同时也开阔了同学们的科研视野，更激发了同学们的科研热情。 

Dr. Gang Bao is the Foyt Family ChairProfessor in the Department of Bioengineering, Rice University. He is a CPRITSenior Scholar and the Director of Nanomedicine Center for NucleoproteinMachines at Rice. Dr. Bao received his undergraduate and Master’s degrees fromShandong University in China, and his PhD from Lehigh University in the US. Dr.Bao is a Fellow of the American Association of Advancement in Science (AAAS), aFellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society (APS), and a Fellow of the American Institute forMedical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).Dr.Bao’s current research is focused on the development of nanotechnology and biomolecularengineering tools for biological and disease studies, including molecularbeacons, magnetic nanoparticle probes, quantum dot bioconjugates, proteintagging/targeting methods, and engineered nucleases such as CRISPR/Cas9. Theseapproaches have been applied to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer andcardiovascular disease, and the development of genome editing approaches fortreating single-gene disorders.