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
From the 19th to the 23rd of April 2021, the ESRs took part in the second NanoCarb Spring Workshop. Initially planned in Belgium, it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent travel limitations. During the first day, the ESRs attended a career workshop organised by Horizons Unleashed Ltd. where ESRs gained career … Read more
Gizem Erol (ESR 13) from the Mario Negri Institute will participate in the annual meeting of the Milan Center for Neuroscience (NeuroMI), to be held online on Friday 18 December 2020 in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience. The event will cover six research areas, namely Biotechnologies and Nanomedicine, Clinical … Read more
The NanoCarb Autumn Workshop held last week was also the occasion for the consortium members and ESRs to discuss the progress of the project. On Wednesday and Thursday, each ESR presented the status of his/her research before receiving questions from the audience and exploring further synergies for the upcoming months. To get a taste of … Read more
This week, the ESRs, PIs and all consortium members are taking part in the second NanoCarb Autumn Workshop. Initially planned in San Sebastian, Spain, it is being held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Autumn Workshop has started with a two-day training on imaging, organised by CIC biomaGUNE and with invited speakers from the … Read more
Panagiotis Georgiou (ESR 3) from the Gibson Group at the Warwick University has received the Ottewill International Travel Scholarship from the Macro Group UK. This travel grant assists, each year, one outstanding UK-based PhD researcher in presenting their work related to polymer colloids at an international conference outside the UK. He will be attending the … Read more
During April-July 2020 Ashfaq and Panos from Warwick University have been in involved in “I’m a Scientist, Stay at home”, a UK programme for chatting with UK students and teachers. This is an online activity that helps school students stay connected with science, their teachers, and their classmates during the school summer term. The activity gets young … Read more