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New publication from the Gibson group

Our ESRs Panagiotis G. Georgiou (ESR 3), and Ashfaq Ahmad (ESR 8) from the Gibson group at the University of Warwick co-authored a paper published in ACS Macro Letters on the detection of SARS-CoV‑2 spike protein with polymer-stabilized glycosylated gold nanorods. In collaboration with the R&D unit of the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, the authors show … Read more

International Women and Girls in Science Days

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and together with thousands of others, Nanocarb celebrated this by highlighting our female Early Stage Researchers who are working within the our project. Visit @nanocarbproject  or #WomenInScienceDay  on Twitter for more content.

Open position at CIC biomaGUNE

An Early Stage Researcher position for a period of 6 months is offered in the CIC biomaGUNE Radiochemistry and Nuclear Imaging Group led by Dr. Jordi Llop, to conduct research activities related to the preparation, characterisation, radiolabelling and in vivo evaluation of nanoparticles. Deadline for application: 15 February 2022 Job description and application details

New publication from Eva on the glycan accessibility in the biomolecular corona

Eva Clemente (ESR 7) from the Monopoli Group at the Royal College for Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has co-authored a new publication titled “Probing the glycans accessibility in the Nanoparticle biomolecular corona” and published in Elsevier’s Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. This paper results from an international collaboration with researchers at CIC biomaGUNE and … Read more

ESRs presented their progress during the 3rd NanoCarb Autumn Workshop

The third NanoCarb Autumn Workshop took place online from the 29th of November to the 2nd of December 2021. The training week started with a series of talks regarding In-vitro Diagnostics. The topic was covered by speakers from both the academic and industry sectors, such as Dr. Daniel Spencer (Head of Development at Ludger Ltd.), … Read more

Alessia presented her work at the C’Nano conference in Toulouse, FR

Alessia Pancaro (ESR 11) from VITO presented her recently published work on gold nanorods biosensors at the C’Nano conference, which took place in Toulouse, France, from November 23rd to 25th. The conference was organised by the French national Competency Cluster in Nanoscience of CNRS and was attended by around 400 academic and industry participants. Her poster was … Read more

Two NanoCarb ESRs involved in the development of a diagnostic tool against SARS-COV-2

The Gibson group at the University of Warwick (incl. the NanoCarb ESRs Ashfaq Ahmad and Panagiotis G. Georgiou) just published their work on the detection of SARS-COV-2 using sugars instead of antibodies. This publication results from a collaboration with the platform company Iceni Diagnostics Ltd. and the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and … Read more

Alessia awarded at the NanoMed Europe conference

Alessia Pancaro (ESR 11) from VITO won the best poster award together with two other researchers at the NanoMed Europe 21 virtual conference, which was held on September 7-9 2021 as a merger of the 16th Nanomedicine European Technology Platform (ETPN) and 4th EuroNanoMed annual conferences. Alessia presented her newly published work on gold nanorods … Read more

Daniela awarded at the 72nd Irish Chemistry Research Colloquium

Daniela Tomasino (ESR 1) from the Heise Group at the Royal College for Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), was awarded best presentation in material chemistry at the 72nd Irish Chemistry Research Colloquium, hosted this year by the University of Limerick. She presented her work on Glycosylated Nanoparticles via SET-LR-PISA. In the physical chemistry talks, Eva Clemente … Read more