Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Particles (ePub)

Jeffrey N. Anker is a Wallace R. Roy Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

and BioEngineering at Clemson University. He earned his BS degree in

applied physics at Yale University in 1998. He earned his doctorate at The

University of Michigan in 2005, working for Professor Raoul Kopelman

to develop magnetically modulated optical nanoprobes (MagMOONs) to

measure chemical concentrations and mechanical properties of solutions. For

this work, he was awarded a grand prize at the 2002 National Inventor's

Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventor's Competition. From 2005 to 2008,

Dr. Anker worked as an NIH National Science Research Award (NSRA)

postdoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University under the guidance of Professor

Richard Van Duyne. His postdoctoral research focused on developing real-time high-resolution

plasmonic nanosensors. He joined the Clemson Chemistry Department in August 2008. Current

research focuses on imaging and spectroscopy using magnetic, plasmonic, x-ray excited microand

nanosensors, implantable sensors, orthopedic devices, and medical imaging. Along with

Thompson Mefford, he founded the Frontiers in BioMagnetic Particles Meeting Series. Awards

include: NSF CAREER award (2013); Clemson Faculty Collaboration Award (2014); Clemson

University School of Health Research (CUSHR), and Greenville Health System Embedded

Faculty Fellow (2018); University Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award

(USRAAA) (2018); and senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (2019).

O. Thompson Mefford is an Associate Professor in the Department of

Materials Science Engineering where he holds a David and Mary Ann Bishop

Dean's Professorship, along with an additional appointment in the Department