November 02, 2009 - At the 11th annual Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Innovations in Healthcare SM Awards Event Patrick Soon-Shiong was presented with the "Leadership in Innovation" award and delivered the keynote address. Soon-Shiong is currently leading Abraxis Health, a spin-off of CNSI Founding Industry Partner Abraxis Bioscience Inc., and is working towards the providing "personalized" medicine, tailored to the specific molecular profile of patients. Soon...more
October 29, 2009 - A story in the Los Angeles Times details a $100 million offer by Patrick Soon-Shiong to guarantee funding for the reopening by 2012 of Martin Luther King-Jr. Harbor Hospital (MLK) near Watts in Los Angeles. Soon-Shiong is Chairman and CEO of Abraxis Health and a member of the CNSI Advisory Board.
October 26, 2009 - Research on mesoporous silicon nanoparticles, or nanovalves, that open and close based on acidity changes has been highlighted in Nature Materials. The Nanovalves, which are intended for use in drug delivery, are the creation of Jeff Zink, a professor of chemistry & biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and a member of the CNSI. The ori...more
October 23, 2009 - Solarmer Energy, Inc., a leading developer of plastic solar panels, has done it again, breaking the plastic solar cell world record for a second consecutive time. Solarmer announced on October 23rd their champion plastic solar cell efficiency of 7.6%, certified by the Newport Corporation's Technology and Applications Center's Photovoltaic (TAC-PV) Lab. The Newport Corporation is a globally recognized leader in advanced technology products an...more
October 22, 2009 - Dr. David Lundberg, Director of the CNSI Global Partnership Program, met with members of Nano Connect Scandinavia, a newly formed consortium of universities in Southern Sweden and Denmark with programs in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Among the consortium are the University of Lund, Chalmers University of Technology, Technical University of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, and the University of Gothenburg. The consortium's purpose is to ...more
October 19, 2009 - The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced a collaboration with Photron USA Inc., a manufacturer of high-speed imaging systems and image analysis software, to develop specialized instrumentation for the CNSI's core laboratory facilities.
Photron, an international photo-instrumentation company that provides photo-optics and electronic technologies to the research community, is committed to furthering scientific researc...more
October 16, 2009 - Research by Paul Weiss's group at CNSI has been featured in Editors' Choice of Science Magazine's October 16th issue. The research describes a new scanning tunneling (STM) microscopy technique which allows both the bottoms and tops of monolayers to be visualized. Because STM involves a probe tip traveling over the top of surfaces to map out structures i...more
October 15, 2009 - The CNSI is hosting a Core Lab Open House and Exhibitor Showcase on Thursday, October 15, 2009. Come and see the world class equipment available in the CNSI Core Labs and meet the companies working with the Core Facilities in the Exhibitor Showcase. Attendees must RSVP to cnsievents@cnsi.ucla.edu
Bruce Dunn, a UCLA Professor of materials science and engineering and member of the California NanoSystems Institute was recently interviewed for the website LiveScience. The interview covers information about his background, research, and thoughts on the nuts and bolts of research. Dunn's group is developing next generation three-dimensional batteries, fuel ce...more
October 06, 2009 - The Nano and Pico Characterization (NPC) Lab at CNSI would like to announce the first instrumentation workshop of an upcoming series entitled:
"Converting an AFM into an analytical tool: Material identification and characterization based on nanoscale thermal analysis and imaging"
This workshop, provided in collaboration with Anasys Instruments, is the first in a series aimed at assessing the level of interest within the...more
