Engineering iron oxide nanoparticles towards clinical applications
Event details
| Date | 27.10.2014 |
| Hour | 13:15 › 14:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Anna Roig, ICMAB-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Iron oxide nanoparticles are becoming an important class of materials in nanomedicine because they can be used for imaging as contrast agents in MRI as well as for therapeutical purposes. Moreover, they are FDA approved. The talk will start with a brief introduction to iron oxide nanoparticles, a description of the characteristics that make them attractive in the health sector and some recently reported biomedical applications. It will then be followed by the workflow we have undertaken to validate in-house synthesized magnetic nanoparticles and nanocapsules to promote angiogenesis as a brain neurorepair therapy after stroke.[1] [2]
[1] Rapid synthesis of water-dispersable SPIONs by microwave assisted route for safe labeling of endothelial progenitor cells, Acta-Biomaterialia 10 (2014) 3775 DOI:10.1016/j.actbio.2014.04.01
[2] In vitro Angiogenic Performance and in vivo Brain Targeting of Magnetized Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Neurorepair Therapies, Nanomedicine: NBM 10, 1 (2014) 225
DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2013.06.005
Bio: Anna Roig graduated in Physics and received a PhD in Materials Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She completed her education at the KTH in Stockholm and at Northeastern University in Boston. More recently she spent over two years as a seconded national expert in Brussels at the Research Directorate. At present she is Senior Researcher and Deputy Director of the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (www.icmab.es) where she leads the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group (www.icmab.es/nn). Her group interests turn around developing inorganic nanoparticles with a soft spot for magnetic materials. In addition to bio-related application, the group has research activities in uncommon iron oxides phase, such the multiferroic epsilon-Fe2O3. http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-7616-2011
[1] Rapid synthesis of water-dispersable SPIONs by microwave assisted route for safe labeling of endothelial progenitor cells, Acta-Biomaterialia 10 (2014) 3775 DOI:10.1016/j.actbio.2014.04.01
[2] In vitro Angiogenic Performance and in vivo Brain Targeting of Magnetized Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Neurorepair Therapies, Nanomedicine: NBM 10, 1 (2014) 225
DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2013.06.005
Bio: Anna Roig graduated in Physics and received a PhD in Materials Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She completed her education at the KTH in Stockholm and at Northeastern University in Boston. More recently she spent over two years as a seconded national expert in Brussels at the Research Directorate. At present she is Senior Researcher and Deputy Director of the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (www.icmab.es) where she leads the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group (www.icmab.es/nn). Her group interests turn around developing inorganic nanoparticles with a soft spot for magnetic materials. In addition to bio-related application, the group has research activities in uncommon iron oxides phase, such the multiferroic epsilon-Fe2O3. http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-7616-2011
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- Holger Frauenrath
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