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
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
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 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
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
Panos from the Gibson group at the University of Warwick has been elected to join the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Group committee as a PhD representative. Current committee members enjoy the opportunity to give something back to the broader community and welcome the chance to influence and participate in organising the … Read more
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 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
A new NanoCarb paper – “The polymeric glyco-linker controls the signal outputs for plasmonic gold nanorods biosensors due to biocorona formation” by Alessia Pancaro (ESR 11) at VITO, in collaboration with Panagiotis Georgiou (ESR 3) at the University of Warwick – has been published on the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Nanoscale. This manuscript demonstrates how the … Read more
The paper “Polymer Self-Assembly Induced Enhancement of Ice Recrystallization Inhibition” by Panagiotis Georgiou (ESR 3, University of Warwick) has been published in the Journal of the American Chemistry Society and is available open access. Together with colleagues from the University of Warwick’s Department of Chemistry, they observed that polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) derived nanoparticles can inhibit … Read more