October 5, 2009

the future of medicine: nanotechnology and magnets

Speakers:
Prof Quentin Pankhurst, Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratories, Royal Institution of Great Britain
Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, University College London
Prof Kerry Chester, Professor of Molecular Medicine, UCL Cancer Institute
Dr Sam Janes, MRC Clinician Scientist, Centre for Respiratory Research at UCL

Nanotechnology is offering medicine brand new ways of dealing with disease using ideas that would have been only science fiction just a few years ago. The SMC invited journalists to come and hear from some top experts who are using nanotechnology and magnets to potentially both diagnose and treat cancer, and to find out how close these techniques are to reality, how much they might cost, and whether public perception of nanotechnology is likely to be a hurdle.