Controlling cells: One nanoparticle at a time

This presentation will cover a close to 30 year journey researching and commercializing nanotechnology for improving disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment (including cancer) which has led to numerous products including nano spinal implants now in over 30,000 patients to date showing no signs of failure according to the FDA MAUDE database. Traditional orthopedic implants face a failure rate of 5 – 10% and sometimes as high as 60% for bone cancer patients. The talk will cover not only human clinical evidence of the unprecedented efficacy of nanotechnology in medicine but also fundamental evidence of how nanotechnology can be used clinically to kill cancer cells, bacteria, inhibit inflammation, and promote tissue growth (if needed) without drugs. This talk will also describe the future of nanotechnology and how it will in the not too distant future combat traditional failures in our global healthcare system including reversing the current decrease in global average life expectancy, creating a reactive compared to predictive healthcare system, transforming a healthcare system that relies too much on drugs and pharmaceutical agents to treat ailments, facilitating a non-personalized healthcare system, combating increasing costs, treating a growing global population, and more through the future use of implantable nano sensors, 4D printed nano materials, smart nano materials, environmentally-friendly nanomaterials, and AI as well as other predictive models in medicine and more.