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Center Director Philip Demokritou Interviews with Elsevier’s Materials Today

Center Director Philip Demokritou gave an interview with Stewart Bland from Elsevier’s Materials Today Podcast on nanomaterial toxicology. Dr. Demokritou discussed his paper “Effects of intratracheally instilled laser printer-emitted engineered nanoparticles in a mouse model: a case study of toxicological implications from nanomaterials released during consumer use” which was published in the journal NanoImpact (see … Continue reading “Center Director Philip Demokritou Interviews with Elsevier’s Materials Today”

Summer Outing 2017

The team at the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology spent a great afternoon along the Charles River Esplanade to celebrate another great year of hard work and collaborations.

Generous gift from Nature’s Touch to further fund food safety research

Nature’s Touch recently joined our extensive network of industrial partners at the Harvard Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology. They are interested in developing novel solutions in the area of food safety. As a company that is at the forefront of the battle against foodborne pathogens, Nature’s Touch is aware of the challenges and the limitations … Continue reading “Generous gift from Nature’s Touch to further fund food safety research”

Honorable Mention by the Society of Toxicology

Our paper titled “Linking Exposure of Particles Released From Nano-Enabled Products to Toxicology: An Integrated Methodology for Particle Sampling, Extraction, Dispersion and Dosing”  published in the journal of Toxicological Sciences (2015), was awarded Honorable Mention by the Society of Toxicology Board of Publications. Congratulations to the authors for all their hard work! Authors: Anoop K. … Continue reading “Honorable Mention by the Society of Toxicology”

2015 PFT Prize Paper Award

  Our paper titled “Advanced computational modeling for in vitro nanomaterial dosimetry” was the winner of the inaugural Particle and Fibre Toxicology Prize Paper Award for 2015. Congratulation to the authors for all their hard work! Authors: Glen M. DeLoid, Joel M. Cohen, Georgios Pyrgiotakis, Sandra V. Pirela, Anoop Pal, Jiying Liu, Jelena Srebric and Philip Demokritou  

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to fund a new Center on Nano-safety Research at T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health.

Update: Visit the new Center’s website here: www.hsph.harvard.edu/nanosafety Press Release, Boston MA, 07/5/2016 National Institutes of Health (NIH)  and its National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) just announced the funding of a new interdisciplinary Nano-safety Center at the T. H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health. The main focus of the new HSPH-NIEHS Center … Continue reading “National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to fund a new Center on Nano-safety Research at T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health.”

Dilpreet Singh won the New Investigator Award at the National Nanotechnology Initiative international QEEN conference

Dilpreet Singh, a second year doctoral student in Prof. Philip Demokritou’s Lab for Environmental Health Nanoscience at the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has won the New Investigator Award at the InternationalQEEN (Quantifying Exposure to Engineered Nanomaterials from Manufactured Products) conference sponsored by the Consumer Product … Continue reading “Dilpreet Singh won the New Investigator Award at the National Nanotechnology Initiative international QEEN conference”

Nanotechnology to the Rescue: Using Engineered Water Nanostructures (EWNS) to inactivate Foodborne Microorganisms

The burden of foodborne diseases worldwide is huge, with serious economic and public health consequences. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service reported in 2014 that foodborne illnesses are costing the economy more than $15.6 billion and about 53,245 Americans visit the hospital annually due to foodborne illnesses. The food industry is in … Continue reading “Nanotechnology to the Rescue: Using Engineered Water Nanostructures (EWNS) to inactivate Foodborne Microorganisms”

Printer Emitted Particles: Are they safe?

Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) incorporated into toner formulations of toner used in every day laser printers. During the print jobs it is likely that the particles can be released in the air. Recently, our group developed a lab based Printer Exposure Generation System that allows the generation and sampling of airborne PEPs for subsequent physicochemical, morphological … Continue reading “Printer Emitted Particles: Are they safe?”