OPTIN Contact Bulletin 13 - Molecular Imaging


The OPTIN Contact Bulletin
New Projects in MOLECULAR IMAGING From Israel
No.13 – April 2003	www.optin.nl

Projects: 1. Restoration procedure for Low-Field Interventional MRI 2. Confining, Manipulating and Analyzing Light & Materials in Nanometric Dimensionalities 3. System and Method for Differentiating Between Cells with Normal and Pathologically Altered Cytoskeleton 4. Production and characterization of nanometric fluorescent particles for imaging in medicine and biology 5. Advanced cell-based assays, utilizing proprietary, high-resolution electron-beam molecular imaging 6. Live Cell Imaging 7. Nanoporous and Nanocomposite Sol-Gel Based Functional Materials 8. A Method for Improved X-Ray Diagnostics of Small Tumors 9. A Minimal Invasive Diagnostic Method for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Based on Zinc Levels 10. Spectral bio-imaging diagnostics systems 11. Chemistry, Physics and Applications of Semiconductor Clusters, Nanocrystals and Nanorods 12. Low Cost, High Efficiency Thermopile-Based Infrared Focal Plan Array 13. 3D MRI Method for Quantitative Evaluation of Kidney Function 14. Bio-Imaging Systems in the field of transluminescence in molecular biology 15. New Fiber Optic Sensors Based on Photostable Organic Dyes in Glasses 16. A Novel In Vivo Non-Invasive Diagnostic Method for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Based on Zinc Levels 17. T-SPR: Optical Sensor for detection of chemical and biological substances 18. Micro-array technology and cluster algorithm for characterizing receptor-ligand interactions 19. Optical technology for analyzing interaction between biological materials 20. Biosensors 21. Chromogenic labeling based on novel Azobenzene derivatives for bio-analytical applications 22. Tissue Targeted Avidin-Type Molecules as Delivery Systems In the News: 1. Chief Scientist: don't cut R&D budget 2. Chaos can be bad but order can be worse! Totem-α the True Random Number Generator Advertorial 1. DNR Imaging Systems is a world pioneer in the field of bio-imaging	Coming up in the next Bulletin (No.14 – June 2003) New projects in Fermentation Technology To see the previous bulletins click on Projects at our web site www.optin.nl. You can receive this bulletin every month with ALL THE CONTACT INFORMATION of all the projects: contact Mrs. J.B. Peersmann: j.peersmann@optin.nl , +31-(0)70-3643260 For background and contact information on the listed projects please contact Optin’s Life Sciences Manager, Mr. e.guetta@optin.nl If you have projects in one of the fields of the coming up bulletin and want to be incuded for for free you can sent it to Projects for Bulletin. For more information about Life Sciences in Israel and in The Netherlands look at OPTIN web site www.optin.nl , your portal to Israeli and Dutch biotechnology. Sponsors DSM Venturing IBM Life Sciences Tel Aviv University Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd Rad-Ramot Incubator Holland Biotechnology WFIA / Israel Office Delft Hoekert’s Creations The Embassy of Israel Matimop CIDI Nmedica Events BIO-TECH ISRAEL 2003 13-15 May 2003, Tel Aviv, Israel NANOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 18-21 May 2003, Groningen, The Netherlands ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE - OPPORTUNITIES IN GLOBAL BIOTECH 19-20 May 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands AGRITECH ISRAEL 2003 15-18 September 2003, Tel Aviv, Israel NEW INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN MEDICINE FROM ISRAEL AND THE NETHERLANDS Coming up in September 2003, The Netherlands Contributors Ramot / Tel Aviv University Yissum / The Hebrew University Yeda / Weizmann Institute Rad-Ramot Incubator Hadasit Bar Ilan University Ben-Gurion University Technion Matimop *Announcement* Tel Aviv university has published the EOI's for the Sixth Framework on the web, and invites interested partners from the Netherlands (academy and industry) to join the consortia being formed. Contact can be made directly with the coordinator of each group or with the EU liason Office at the address on the web site: *EOI's for the Sixth Framework*