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Kavli Prize Lectures in Nanoscience 2024

Robert S. Langer (USA), Armand Paul Alivisatos (USA), and Chad A. Mirkin (USA) have revolutionised the field of nanomedicine by demonstrating how nanotechnology can advance biomedical research and practice. Their discoveries have laid the foundation for the development of treatments, vaccines, and diagnostics. 

The Kavli Prize laureates will deliver their prize lectures on 2 September. The lectures are open to all, but require registration in advance. Read more and sign up here (kavliprize.org)

Time and place: – , Oslo Science Park - Forum
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Programme

9:30 - Light refreshments in the foyer

10:00 - Welcome and introduction by Rector Svein Stølen, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Lise Øvreås, and Committee Member Naomi Halas

10:10 - Lecture by Robert S. Langer: "A scientific road not taken: My path from chemical engineering to nanotechnology and biology and medicine"

10:50 - Lecture by Armand Paul Alivisatos: "Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Biomedical Imaging, Health, and Sustainability"

11:30 - Lecture by Chad A. Mirkin: "Repurposing the Blueprint of Life through Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs): Opening the Field of Structural Nanomedicine"

12:05 - Closing remarks by Lise Øvreås

There will be room to ask questions between the lectures.

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