Speaking engagements

Invited Talks

Nanomedicine:

      1^st International SBE Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology: Self-           assembling peptides in neural repair, Singapore 2004

1^st Lux Executive Summit on Nanotechnology: Panel member for Strategies from Asia’s Nanotech Innovators, Cambridge , USA 2005

1^st SRI Nanomedicine - Commercializing Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and Diagnostics: Crystal clear surgery with self-assembling molecules that act as a bio-barrier in the brain and intestine, Cambridge , USA 2005

M.I.T. Entrepreneurship Center Idea Stream: Immediate hemostasis, Cambridge , USA 2005

      1^st Conference of the American Association of Nanomedicine: Nano-enabled crystal clear surgery, Baltimore , USA 2005

           4^th Multidisciplinary Workshop for Self-assembling Peptide and Protein Systems in   

Biology, Medicine, Materials, and Engineering: Nano self-assembly and neural repair, Crete , Greece 2005 

2^nd International SBE Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology: Nano neuro knitting, Santa Barbara , USA 2006

Keynote Speaker, Accelrys Seminar Series on Nanodesign - Revolutionizing Healthcare and Medicine through Nanotechnology: Nanotechology to repair the brain, Cambridge , USA 2006

1^st International Conference of Nanobiomedical Technology & Structural Biology:

Nanotechnology and CNS regeneration, Chengdu , China 2006

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Hemostasis and nanomedicine, Philadelphia , USA 2006

M.I.T. Entrepreneurship Center Idea Stream: Hemostasis at the nanoscale, Cambridge , USA 2006

2^nd Conference of the American Association of Nanomedicine: Nano neuro technology to repair the brain, Washington DC , USA 2006

Symposium Chair – Neurology Nanomedicine, 2^nd Conference of the American Association of Nanomedicine, Washington DC , USA 2006

National Nanotechnology Initiative of the National Science Foundation: Nano neuro knitting and hemostasis, Fairfax , VA USA 2006  

Nanotechnology 2006: Using nanotechnology to repair the body, Albany , USA 2006

MIT Enterprise Forum: “What’s Hot at MIT?” The intersection of nanotechnology and medicine: from Nano Neuro Knitting to Crystal Clear Surgery, Cambridge , USA 2006

Xiangshan International Nanomedicine Conference: Using nanotechnology to repair the body, Beijing , China (To be held Nov ’06)

2^nd SRI Nanomedicine - Commercializing Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and Diagnostics:  Repairing the brain using nanotechnology, Washington DC , USA (To be held Mar ’07)

BioNano 2007: Using nanotechnology to repair the body after trauma, Cambridge , USA (To be held May ’07)

CNS regeneration:

2^nd Asia Pacific Symposium on Neural Regeneration: A multifactor approach to the

           problem of obtaining functionally useful CNS axon regeneration, Xian, China 2000         

MIT/Whiteman talk: Eliciting functional regeneration in the CNS: one giant step, or many small ones? Cambridge , USA 2002

3^rd Symposium on Neuroscience of Young Scholars Worldwide: CNS regeneration,

      Guangzhou , China 2004

1^st International Spinal Cord Injury Treatments and Trials Symposium: Self-assembling nano material for CNS lesion repair, Hong Kong 2005

1^st Workshop on Regeneration/Repair in Nervous System, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD):  The 4 Ps of CNS regeneration, Oxford, UK 2006

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine : The use of nanotechnology in neuroscience and Chinese medicine, Chengdu , China 2006

13^th Annual Optic Nerve Rescue and Restoration Think Tank: Nano neuro knitting, New York , USA 2006

2^nd International Spinal Cord Injury Treatments and Trials Symposium: Nano neuro knitting of the spinal cord, Guangzhou , China (To be held Oct ’06)

Plenary speaker, Sydney University Tissue Engineering Network (SuTEN) symposium: Nano neuro knitting, Sydney , Australia (To be held Nov ’06)

5^th Asia Pacific Symposium on Neural Regeneration: Nanotechnology and CNS repair, Shanghai , China (To be held Dec ’06)

27^th Blankenese Conference on Routes to Therapy - From Stem Cell Tailoring to Nano Knitting: Using nanotechnology as a part of a therapy to repair the brain, Hamburg , Germany (To be held May ‘07)

2007 National Neurotrauma Symposium: Nano neuro knitting, Kansas City , USA (to be held July ’07)

Paperless Classroom/Teaching:

American Testing Professionals conference, Florida USA 2003

Cross Talk Symposium – M.I.T Cambridge USA 2004

CITE – University of Hong Kong 2004

Hong Kong Library Association, Hong Kong 2005

International Library Association conference, Hong Kong 2005

Merrimack College , Massachusetts USA 2005