CCNY inventor Patricia Broderick addresses global nanotech congress

In recognition of her pre-eminent status in the field, City College of New York inventor, researcher and medical professor Patricia A. Broderick is the keynote speaker at the 30th Annual Congress on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 10-11. Her talk is entitled “A Live Imaging Nanotechnology: Sensing the Brain from Spectral Analysis to Neuromolecular Imaging to Voltaic Photonics.”  It focuses on the BRODERICK PROBE®, her unique series of nanobiosensors that have changed the way scientists and doctors view the brain.

Based on nano biotechnology, the probes are biomedical sensing devices, smaller than one strand of human hair. They have proven successful in   sensing exact neuronal transmitters in the temporal lobe brain in epilepsy patients, intraoperatively, during surgery performed at New York University’s Tisch Hospital.

Along with providing online images of the living brain in vivo, Broderick designed the devices to diagnose and treat debilitating neurodegenerative and psychiatric brain disorders. “My keynote focuses on this unique series of nanobiosensors specifically as miniature nanosurgical biomedical devices for epilepsy, Parkinson’s and affective disorders,” she said.

The BRODERICK PROBE® is named after Broderick’s father, Paddy, an Irish immigrant.  The probe is marketed by Eazysense Nanotechnology Incorporated, founded by Broderick in concert with CUNY’s Technology Commercialization Office.

In addition to her keynote address at the biggest annual gathering of nanotech experts in the world, Broderick will pen the welcoming letter to congress participants – a distinction, she noted, that’s never extended to the keynote speaker.

She’s also been asked to deliver a second speech to her nanotech peers on Sept. 11 in Johanneshov, a district of Stockholm.

Broderick will preview her forthcoming book “Neuroimaging, Nanosensing Biochemistry in the Brain," (Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2019).

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