Walter Harrington
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Biography
Walter Harrington is a second year graduate student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) pursuing a PhD in the Interdisiplinary Biomedical Sciences. His current work focuses on developing novel photoswitchable nanoprobes for labeling and tracking of cells in vivo and use this diagnostic platform for study of biodistribution of bacteria (S. aureus) in the body. He works under the supervision of Vladimir Zharov, PhD, Professor, who is Director of Arkansas Nanomedicine Center at UAMS and who pioneered photothermal nanotherapy and in vivo photoacoustic flow cytometry.
Abstract
Abstract : Photoswitchable nonfluorescent nanoprobes for tracking individual tumor and bacterial cells
