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Session 1:
Setting the Scene
Anthony Green, Vice President of Technology Commercialization: Life Sciences, Ben Franklin Technology Partners; Director, The Nanotechnology Institute
Welcome, NNI Overview, & Charge to Participants
Altaf Carim, Assistant Director for Nanotechnology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, United States
Bridging Technologies
Paul Braun, Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Commercializing Nanotechnology
Christopher Schuh, Head of Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Danae and Vasilios Salapatas Professor of Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Infrastructure Needs
Julia Phillips, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sandia National Laboratories
International Challenges and Opportunities
Shaun Clancy, Director and Regional Head, Product Regulatory Services, Evonik Corporation
Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications
Barbara Herr-Harthorn, Principal Investigator and Director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California Santa Barbara
Session 4:
Recap of Day 1 & Instructions for Day 2
Debra Kaiser, Technical Program Director, Advanced Materials and Nanoparticles and Environment, Health and Safety (NanoEHS), National Institute of Standards and Technology
Environmental, Health, and Safety Considerations
David Warheit, Research Fellow, DuPont Haskell Global Centers for Health and Environmental Sciences
