Questions about Pathology.

WayOutWestMom
Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:12:30 +0000

There are people who work with nanotechnology (they’re only nanites on Star Trek) with medical applications. In fact there’s a whole specialist professional journal devoted to it. (Called Nanomedicine.)

However, the people who work in medical applications of nanotechnology aren’t pathologists. They’re MS or PhD holders in variety of fields, including: electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, material science, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, nanotechnology.

As an example of the kind of work being done in medical applications of nanotech–try looking at the program;

[The University of New Mexico Nanoscience and Microsystems Program (NSMS)](http://nsms.unm.edu/)

It’s joint program run by a medical school and a college of engineering. (I know 2 grad students in the program. One is working on cancer therapies–basically try to develop a way to implant single gold atoms inside individual cancer cells to kill the cell. One is developing immunohistology sensing device that works from outside the skin. No blood needed to do bloodwork.)

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FYI, UNM has summer REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program that includes opportuities to work in nanosciences for biological systems.