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DR. G. ALI MANSOORI
The Nanowerk article
Nanotechnology solutions for Alzheimer's disease said
In the absence of a cure — since Alzheimer's is a progressive
disease,
and the brains natural regenerative capacity is thought to be minimal
?an early diagnosis combined with some form of treatment that stops the
pathogenic process is seen as the most promising way of battling the
disease. However, as Dr. Amir Nazem and Dr. G. Ali Mansoori write in
their paper (Nanotechnology Solutions for Alzheimer's Disease: Advances
in Research Tools, Diagnostic Methods and Therapeutic Agents), at the
present there is not any single diagnostic tool for precise screening or
early and accurate detection of the disease; and only a probable
diagnosis with an 80% confidence, on average, is possible based on
clinical criteria (including laboratory tests, neuroimaging, and
neuropsychological assessment).
Nazem, a scientist at the Qaem Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical
Sciences in Iran, and Mansoori a professor in the Departments of
Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering & Physics at the University of
Illinois at Chicago describe possible approaches to early diagnoses and
effective treatment of AD. They write that the development of
nanotechnology approaches for early-stage diagnosis of AD is quite
promising but acknowledge that scientists are still at the very
beginning of the ambitious project of designing effective drugs and
methods for the regeneration of the central nervous system.
G. Ali Mansoori, Ph.D. is
Professor,
Departments of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Physics,
Department of Bioengineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago.
Ali's research is in the areas of statistical mechanics and
thermodynamics
with applications in: chemical engineering process design, heavy oil
utilization, asphaltene characterization, sour natural gas purification,
supercritical fluid extraction/retrograde condensation, biotechnology,
and environmental pollution.
He has developed: new
molecular solution
theories that are applicable for engineering design calculations; phase
equilibria theory of multicomponent mixtures, and he has applied them
to the case of polymer solutions, petroleum reservoir fluids, coal
liquids, and biological fluids; statistical mechanical mixing rules for
asymmetric mixtures consisting of polar and associating molecules such
as aqueous; predictive techniques for supercritical fluid extraction,
retrograde condensation, and their applications in production and
treatment processes of the natural gas industry; phase equilibria for
bioseparations and its applications for enrichment of biological
macromolecules (proteins) from biological fluids; and deposition and
separation techniques of asphaltene fractions from intermediate and
heavy petroleum crudes and their application in petroleum production and
processing.
In developing these techniques he has applied
experimental
methods of chromatography, interfacial tensiometry, ebuliometry along
with fractal aggregation, colloidal, micellar, polymer, and statistical
mechanical theories.
Ali authored
Principles Of Nanotechnology: Molecular-Based Study Of Condensed
Matter
In Small Systems and
Modeling of asphaltene and other heavy organic depositions,
coauthored
Measurement of property relationships of nano-structure
micelles and coacervates of asphaltene in a pure solvent,
A simple expression for radial distribution functions of pure fluids
and mixtures,
Surface tension prediction for pure fluids,
Densities of Poly(ethylene glycol) + Water Mixtures in the
298.15-328.15 K Temperature Range, and
Statistical thermodynamics of mixtures. A new version for the theory
of
conformal solution,
and coedited
Molecular Building Blocks for Nanotechnology: From Diamondoids to
Nanoscale Materials and Applications.
Read the
full list of his publications!
Ali earned his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma in
1969.
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