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Tuesday, 28th February 2006 (6063 views)

The University of South Carolina (USC) has received $800,000 to establish a laboratory that will be used to develop technologies in the areas of drug delivery, vaccine manufacturing and others.

This will include research into using gold and silver nanoparticles as a way to create various biomedical agents.

The new W.M Keck Open Laboratory for Bionanoparticle Technology Discovery and Development will be peopled by Drs Qian Wang and Cathy Murphy, members of USC's department of chemistry and biochemistry.

Dr Murphy has been involved with developing methods for attaching gold and silver nanoparticles to plant viruses, which is a step towards the manufacture of hybridised materials and new agents for drug delivery.

The director of the USC NanoCentre, Tom Vogt, said: "Nanoscience is about making stuff, and we're finding that the traditional boundaries of materials science, biology, physics, and chemistry are blurring in the nano world."

He continued: "That's why we're creating an open lab - anyone can use it, and we expect to welcome people from many different disciplines."

 

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