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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Nanotechnology for Health: Innovative Designs for Medical Diagnosis
University of Twente
Nanotechnology is used to control and manipulate nanometer-sized matter with nanometer precision. It offers great potential in new medical diagnostic or screening tools, and inspires us to create new devices that can be used to diagnose a disease or monitor a medical treatment. This course focussed on three different developments: how the devices work, how they are made, and the role of nanotechnology. It also covered the ethical and societal implications of nanotechnology in healthcare.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Martin Bennink
Assistant Professor and Lecturer
University of Twente
Evert Houwman
Senior Researcher and Lecturer
University of Twente
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe technology and the science of nanotechnology
- Investigate the relationship between nanotechnology and the medical application
- Engage in the underlying science and technology and techniques used to fabricate nano devices
- Discuss societal and ethical questions that arise from new technological developments in the health domain
Syllabus
- Introduction to the technology and science of nanotechnology
- The relation between nanotechnology and medical applications
- The impact and possible consequences of new techniques for ethical questions and societal behaviour
- Introduction to the underlying science and technology of nanotechnology developments and of the techniques used to produce devices that use nanotechnology
- Nano and breath: Electronic nose; Nano and blood: Lab-on-a-chip; Nano and urine: Cancer detection
- Example cases where new technology is not an independent development but arises from societal questions, and in turn also creates new societal and ethical questions
Issued on 2nd March 2023
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