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Naomi Halas is currently the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University. She has been a faculty member at Rice University since 1990, and known for her invention of nanoshells, a new type of nanoparticle with tunable optical properties especially suited for biotechnology applications. She has been the recipient of an NSF Young Investigator Award, three Hershel Rich Invention Awards, the 2003 Cancer Innovator Award of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs of the Department of Defense, and the 2000 CRS-Cygnus award for Outstanding Work in Drug Delivery. She was also awarded "Best Discovery of 2003" by Nanotechnology Now. She is the author of 100 peer reviewed publications, has presented over 150 invited talks, and has nine issued patents. Dr. Halas is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. She is also the founder and Director of the Rice University Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), a multidisciplinary research network whose mission is the design, invention, and application of nanoscale optical components. | 