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Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Professor Ronald Pethig, University of Wales Bangor, Editor-in-Chief of IET Nanobiotechnology

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Nanobiotechnology: Chasing and Surpassing Nature

Duration: 19 mins
Publication date: 11 Jul 2007

Abstract

What the presentation will outline:• What is nanobiotechnology?• Top-down fabrication• Bottom-up self-assembly• Scanning probe microscopy• Cell probing tools• Nanoparticle gene therapy

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Ronald Pethig

University of Wales Bangor

Ronald Pethig has held a Personal Chair in the School of Electronic Engineering at the University of Wales, Bangor, since 1986. He obtained Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering (Southampton) and Chemistry (Nottingham) and a D.Sc. in Biomolecular Electronics (Southampton). In 1982 he was elected a Corporation Member of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and in 2005 appointed Adjunct Senior Scientist. During the period 1986-1998 he served as Director of the Institute of Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics at Bangor, and through 1991– 1993 as Dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering. In 1998 he was seconded as VP technology to the university spin-out company, Aura BioSystems Inc., located in San Jose, California, and from 2001 to 2003 he acted as President and CEO of the company. At various times he has served on the editorial boards of learned journals, and in committees of the UK Research Councils: BBSRC, EPSRC and MRC.