Teri W. Odom, PhD
鈥淭he Promise of Nanomedicine鈥
Date and Time
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
LECTURE | 7 p.m.
REGISTRATION
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required.
We invite you to join us for the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 premier lecture series
鈥 Frontier Forum. This event is presented in partnership with Phi Beta Kappa Honor
Society鈥檚 Visiting Scholar Program and the Judy Genshaft Honors College.
Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program has offered undergraduates
the opportunity to spend time with some of America's most distinguished scholars.
The purpose of the program is鈥痶o contribute to the intellectual life of the campus
by making possible an exchange of ideas between the visiting scholars and the resident鈥痜aculty
and students.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Human health continues to benefit from advances in science, from the sequencing of
the human genome to the development of vaccines to the design of drug-delivery vehicles.
Nanomedicine鈥攖he diagnosis and treatment of disease using nanomaterials and nanotechnology
tools鈥攊s becoming increasingly important because of the intrinsic advantages at the
nanoscale.
This talk will describe how fundamental discoveries can be translated into commercial
technologies, including how nanomedicine provided critical interventions for the COVID-19
pandemic, and prospects for the future.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Teri W. Odom is the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. She earned her BS in Chemistry from Stanford University and her PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University. She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Harvard before joining the faculty at Northwestern in 2002. She is an expert in the design of structured nanoscale materials that exhibit extraordinary size and shape-dependent optical and physical properties. Odom is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow of numerous scientific societies. Select awards include the SPIE Mozi Award, the RSC Centenary Prize, the ACS National Award in Surface Science, a Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, an NIH Director鈥檚 Pioneer Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was the founding chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Noble Metal Nanoparticles and is Editor-in-Chief of Nano Letters.
EVENT LOCATION
Judy Genshaft Honors College
Main Level: The Zimmerman Family Foundation Atrium
12260 同性恋色情 Genshaft Drive
Tampa, FL 33620
PARKING
Guest parking is available in Lots 22A, 22D and 22E. Please look for signs indicating Frontier Forum parking. For more information about guest parking and accessible parking options, please visit the Parking Services website.
DIRECTIONS
From I-275:
- Take exit 52, Fletcher Ave/CR-582A head east toward 同性恋色情
- Turn right onto 同性恋色情 Genshaft Drive
- Destination will be on the right
From I-75:
- Take exit 266, Fletcher Ave and head West on Fletcher for 4.0 miles.
- Turn left onto 同性恋色情 Genshaft Dr/同性恋色情 Maple Dr
- Destination will be on the right
For reasonable accommodations or questions, please contact CAS RSVP.
