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Behnam Akhavan (University of Newcastle, Australia)
A surface engineer, Dr Behnam Akhavan has relocated to the University of Newcastle to set up his Plasma Bio-Engineering Lab to push the boundaries of biomedical engineering and deliver innovative solutions to grand challenges in medicine, water purification and the environment.
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Lital Alfonta (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Lital Alfonta is a professor at the departments of Life Sciences and Chemistry at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. After completing her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Bioelectrochemistry in 2002, she has moved to The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, for her postdoctoral studies in synthetic biology. She has established her own lab in 2007 at the Ben-Gurion University as a Senior Lecturer, promoted to an Associate Professor in 2012, and to a Full Professor in 2017. Her Research focuses on the development of genetic code expansion tools specifically in electron transferring systems, between enzymes and electrodes for different applications such as biosensing, bio-electrocatalysis, and biofuel cells
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Akash Bachhuka (University Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Dr. Bachhuka holds a Ph.D. in Material science and Engineering from the University of South Australia (2016). His postdoctoral work at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at the University of Adelaide (Australia), was focused on fabricating microstructured optical fiber-based chemical sensors and biosensors. In 2020, he started working as a Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. His interdisciplinary research projects investigated nanoengineered surfaces for several applications, ranging from medical implants to biosensors and chemical sensors. As an emerging research leader, he has published more than 40 research papers and book chapters. In 2020, he won the "Juan de la Cierva incorporation" fellowship and was ranked among the top 6 researchers in Materials Science and Engineering in Spain. In his current role as Juan de la Cierva fellow at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain, he is integrating his expertise in surfaces and interfaces with Prof Lluis F. Marsal (NEPHOS group) for applications ranging from medical implants to biosensors and chemical sensors.
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Giuseppe Battaglia (IBEC, Spain)
Giuseppe Battaglia is Professor of Molecular Bionics. His research is focused on the investigation of the specific design rules behind inter/intramolecular interactions and self-assembly of soft matter systems combining synthetic and supramolecular chemistry. In analogy to medical Bionics, where engineering and physical science converge to the design of replacement and/or enhancement of malfunctioning body parts, Prof Battaglia and his team apply molecular engineering and nanotechnology tools to copy and/or improve biological structures such as viruses for several applications including biotechnology, drug and gene delivery, diagnostic tools and cell engineering scaffolds. He has worked at UCL since 2013. Before this, he held positions as Lecturer -2006, Senior Lecturer -2009 and Professor -2011 in the Departments of Materials Sci. Eng. (2006-2009) and Biomedical Science (2009-2013) at the University of Sheffield. Prof Battaglia holds a Laurea in Chemical Engineering from University of Palermo (Italy) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Sheffield.
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Aurelie Bessiere (Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, CNRS, France)
Dr Aurélie Bessière is a CNRS permanent researcher at Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier (Chemistry Institute), specialist of optical properties of inorganic crystalline materials. During her PhD in Material Science from Sorbonne University (Paris), she studied electrochromism. In 2002-2003, she worked as a research fellow at Delft University (The Netherlands) on scintillating crystals (Pr P. Dorenbos group). In 2004-2005 she was a research fellow at Imperial College London and worked on electro-and photo-luminescence of InGaAs quantum well photovoltaic cells (Pr K. Barnham group). Over 2006-2014 she has developed innovative PERsistent Luminescence (PERL) nanoparticles for in vivo small animal imaging at ChimieParisTech, Paris. In 2019 she has joined the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, where she develops novel PERL theranostic nano-platforms for anti-cancer action.
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Vincent Bouchiat (Grapheal, France)
Vincent Bouchiat is the CEO of Grapheal, a company spin-off from Neel Institute focusing on bioelectronic and healthcare applications of graphene. He is on leave from the French National Research Center (CNRS) at Grenoble, where he has a permanent position since 1997. He received an engineer degree from ESPCI in 1993 and a Master Degree from the University of Paris, Pierre & Marie Curie the same year. He has completed his Ph.D. on quantum devices at CEA-Saclay in 1997 under supervision of Michel Devoret and Daniel Estève. He got the Visiting Miller Professorship Award from University of California, Berkeley in 2007, and the Lee Hsun Research Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017). He co-authored more than 100 publications with over 4000 citations and hold 9 international patents.
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Juan Fraire (IBEC, Spain)
Juan Fraire received his PhD in 2016 at the University of Cordoba (Argentina). Immediately after, Juan joined the Laboratory of General Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy at Ghent University (Belgium) headed by Prof. Stefaan De Smedt and Prof. Kevin Braeckmans as postdoctoral researcher. He is a former Fulbright (Boston University) and FWO (Ghent University) fellow, and his early-career achievements have been recognized by the Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award and Sabato Institute Award. In 2021, Juan joined the Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia - IBEC (Spain) as senior postdoctoral researcher, and since 2022 he is a Beatriu de Pinós - MSCA Fellow. His research is situated at the interface between advanced drug delivery, material sciences, biophysics and biology
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Moran Frenkel-Pinter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Dr. Moran Frenkel-Pinter is an assistant professor in the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her BSc and PhD in biotechnology from Tel Aviv University. As a PhD student, under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Segal and Prof. Ehud Gazit, she studied the role of protein glycosylation in the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease, and in collaboration with Prof. Shai Rahimipour from Bar-Ilan University, she synthesized glycopeptides to study the effect of glycans on peptide self-assembly. She then became a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and, subsequently, a research scientist in its School of Chemistry. As a member of the Center for Chemical Evolution and team leader at the NASA Center for Origins of Life, she focused on elucidating mechanisms that lead to the formation of proto-peptides that can spontaneously polymerize, fold, and interact with nucleic acids under prebiotic conditions. As an Azrieli Early Career Faculty Fellow, Frenkel-Pinter’s research merges concepts from biotechnology and origins of life chemistry, fields in which she specialized during her PhD and postdoctoral research, respectively. She harnesses the creative power of chemical evolution to develop evolving functional biodegradable polymers for biotechnological applications
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Jose Antonio Garrido (ICREA/ICN2, Spain)
Jose A. Garrido is an ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and head of the Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices group. He received a master and PhD degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a habilitation degree by the Technical University of Munich. His research interest focuses on aspects of the science and technology of novel electronic materials, with a strong emphasis on 2D materials such as graphene and MoS2, as well as in the application of these materials to bioelectronics and neural interfaces. He participates in major national and European projects and efforts to explore the development of novel neural interfaces for biomedical applications. Jose Garrido is co-founder of INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, where he is now the Chief Scientific Officer
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Kerstin Göpfrich (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Germany)
Kerstin Göpfrich is a full professor at the ZMBH, Center for Molecular Biology, at Heidelberg University and leads the Biophysical Engineering Group at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. Her research is geared towards the assembly of synthetic model cells from custom-engineered molecular hardware. Previously, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart. She obtained her PhD in 2017 from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Fellow and studied Physics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Erlangen, Germany.
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Marilena Hadjidemetriou (University of Manchester, UK)
Marilena is a Lecturer in Nanomedicine, at the University of Manchester. She obtained a Pharmacy degree at the University of Athens, Greece in 2012. In 2013, she completed with Distinction the MSc in Drug Delivery at the UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London. Marilena joined the Nanomedicine Lab at the University of Manchester as a Marie Curie Early-Stage Fellow and full-time PhD student under the PATHCHOOSER Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN on the development of the nanoparticle protein corona as a tool for cancer diagnostics. After her PhD, Marilena obtained a postdoctoral fellowship by a Medical Research Council Momentum Award to work on the discovery of novel biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease. During that time, she was awarded a Manchester Molecular Pathology Innovation Centre Pump Priming Grant and the Cancer Research Pioneer Award to work on the nanoparticle-enabled discovery of blood biomarkers for a variety of pathologies. In December 2018, Marilena became Research Fellow and Team Leader in Nano-Omics and in January 2020 she was appointed as Lecturer in Nano-Omics. Her team aims to develop multi-omics enrichment nanotechnology platforms to explore disease pathways and to uncover molecular biomarkers.
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Kostas Kostarelos (The University of Manchester, UK)
Chair of Nanomedicine
Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health and National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester,Manchester M13 9NT, United Kingdom. Kostas is Professor of Nanomedicine with the Faculty of Medical & Human Science, and leads biomedical research and applications of the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester. He founded the Nanomedicine Lab in 1998 as Assistant Professor with the Weil Medical College at Cornell University in New York, USA. In 2010 he was awarded the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Professorial Fellowship. He has been invited Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) of the United Kingdom. Kostas obtained his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London and performed postdoctoral research at UCSF and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. In 2007 he held the first Chair of Nanomedicine in the United Kingdom and was Head of the Centre for Drug Delivery Research at UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London for ten years, currently affiliated as Visiting Professor.
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Neus Lozano (ICN2, Spain)
Neus is the Senior Researcher at the Nanomedicine Group led by Prof. Kostas Kostarelos at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona. She obtained her BSc in Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (UB). After completed her MSc and pursued her PhD in Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Surfactants Technology (IQAC-CSIC) & UB, she joined the Nanomedicine Lab in 2010 at the UCL School of Pharmacy in London, UK, as a Research Fellow under the Andalusian Initiative for Advanced Therapies (funded by the Regional Government of Andalusia) on the engineering, characterization, and use of hybrid liposome-nanoparticle systems for the detection, therapy, and monitoring of cancer. In 2013, she became the principal Research Fellow on the EU Graphene Flagship project in the Nanomedicine Lab at The University of Manchester, UK, working on the synthesis of few-layered, high purity and endotoxin-free graphene oxide of different lateral dimensions, suitable for clinical applications. In 2016, she joined the biopharmaceutical company GP-Pharm, S.A., located in Barcelona area, specialized in injectable drug products for oncology and urology applications, based on drug delivery systems such as microspheres and liposomes, as a Quality Control Area leader. In January 2020, she joined as Team Leader the NanomedicineLab@ICN2 in Barcelona as a Severo Ochoa Senior Researcher. Her team is engineering nanomaterials for medicine, mainly focused on the synthesis and characterization of medical-grade graphene oxide as a nanocarrier platform of biologically active molecules.
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Attilio Marino (IIT, Italy)
Attilio Marino is a Senior Postdoc at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Smart Bio-Interfaces group. His main research interests are in nanomedicine and microfabrication fields and are focused on the design and testing of smart therapeutic systems using biomimetic in vitro models. Dr. Marino is currently working on a spin-off project named “NABIS”, which is focused on 3D nanostructured cell culture devices. Dr. Marino is the author or co-author of more than 50 ISI papers, 2 patents, 6 book chapters, and 16 proceedings. Finally, Dr. Marino is Co-Founder and Board Member of Kidaria Bioscience S.r.l., an innovative startup based on technologies developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.
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Lluis F. Marsal (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Lluís F. Marsal is a Full Professor and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1997 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. Between 1998 and 1999, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 2012, he received the URV's RQR Award for quality in research and in 2014, he received a 2014 UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award from the University of South Australia (UniSA) and the ICREA Academia Award from the Generalitat of Catalunya. Since 2013, he is the Chair of Spain Chapter of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and also an active member of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Dr. Marsal serves as a member of the Distinguished Lecturer program of the Electron Devices Society (EDS-IEEE) He has been member of advisory and technical committees in several international and national conferences and has been visiting professor at several universities and research institutions (CINVESTAV - Instituto Politécnico Nacional, McMaster University, University of South Australia, CIC biomaGUNE, CSIC, etc. He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, two books, five book chapters and holds three patents. He has presented over 30 invited lectures in international conferences and has participated in over than 80 national and international projects. His current research interests mainly focus on low–cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous silicon and nanoporous alumina for biomedical applications and optical biosensing platforms. He is also interested in organic and hybrid nanostructured materials to enhance light-matter interactions for optoelectronic devices.
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Mariana Medina Sánchez (IFW Dresden, Germany)
Dr. Mariana Medina Sánchez studied Mechatronics Engineering at the University of San Buenaventura, in Bogotá-Colombia, where she designed, simulated and fabricated a didactic automatic plastic injection machine for milli-metric parts moulding. After finishing her Diploma studies, she worked as assistant professor and researcher for almost 5 years at the same university, with both teaching and research responsibilities. In parallel she performed postgraduate studies on education and biomedical engineering. Then she moved to Spain to pursue her Master and PhD studies, under the supervision of Prof. Arben Merkoçi, at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Barcelona-Spain), where she worked on the development of nanomaterials-based and inkjet-printed electrochemical biosensors for diverse disease diagnosis. After finishing her PhD Thesis, she joined the Leibniz Institute in Dresden-Germany (IFW Leinbiz), as postdoctoral researcher, where she worked in two main projects: the development of magnetically-actuated microcarriers for immotile sperm transport, and the development of ultrasensitive rolled-up microsensors for nucleic acid detection. After two years, she was promoted as group leader, under the mentoring of Prof. Oliver Schmidt. Since then, she has pushed forward the activities related to medical microrobots in particular toward in vivo assisted fertilization and targeted drug delivery, including optimal microbots designs, studies of sperm-based micromotors in complex environments and recently on the real time and deep-tissue tracking of those micromotors, which are key steps toward their application in living organisms. Recently, she was one of the selected researchers to be granted by the European Research Commission, in the Category of ERC Starting, and since 2020 she is independent group leader at the same Institute. This year she extended her research activities by a Joint Dresden Concept group constituted by both IFW Leibniz, the Center for Molecular Bioengineering (B CUBE) and Technische Universität Dresden to work on bioinspired medical microrobots and microsensors
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Tania Patiño Padial (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Tania Patino obtained her PhD in cell biology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2015. In 2016 she obtained a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship and joined Prof. Samuel Sánchez’s group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, where she developed enzyme-powered biomedical micro- and nanorobotics and studied fundamental aspects behind enzyme-self propulsion. In 2019 she obtained a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship and she joined Prof. Francesco Ricci’s lab at the University of Tor Vergata, Rome, where she applied DNA nanotechnology to provide new functionalities and programmability to enzyme-powered nanoswimmers. Since January 2022 she is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS). Her research focuses on understanding the interactions between artificial active matter and living cells ant their potential application in cancer theranostics and immunotherapy.
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Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Prof. Danny Porath Studied for BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at the Hebrew University. Received his Ph.D in Physics from the Hebrew University in 1997. Did his postdoc at Delft University of Technology with Prof. Cees Dekker and established his group at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001. The group research interests include: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules, electrical transport measurements in single molecules, nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and biomarker detection. Member of the Editorial Board of “Self Assembly and Molecular Electronics and of “Scientific Report” from Nature Publishing Group. Received excellent postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston 2000, and The Israel Chemical Society Prize for the Outstanding Young Scientist in 2007. Holds the Etta and Paul Schankerman Chair of Molecular Biomedicine since 2014. Served as the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2011-2014. Currently serves and the Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Science.
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Beatriz Prieto-Simon (ICREA/URV, Spain)
Dr Beatriz Prieto-Simón is an ICREA Research Professor working at the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain). Her research in the multidisciplinary domain of bioinspired nanotechnologies covers the design, micro- and nanofabrication, and surface chemistry of emerging nanostructures to be integrated into diagnostic devices fit-for-purpose. She is conducting research on Si-based nanotechnologies, such as the fabrication of arrays of parallel double-layered nanochannels with site-specifically displayed receptors, and tunable electrochemical features. Her key research interest lies in unveiling fundamental advances on synergies at the interface of nanostructured materials (multi-layered porous structures) and biological processes. Her research aims to lay the foundation for building smart platforms based on principles found in nature to strengthen the scientific and societal impact of their medical and environmental applications.
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Inma Ratera (ICMAB, Spain)
PhD in materials science and chemistry from the UAB and postdoc in nanoscience at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA). Currently, permanent research scientist in the Nanomol department and coordinator of the research line “Bioactive Materials for Therapy and Diagnosis” at ICMAB-CSIC. He has published more than 100 articles and 11 book chapters (index h=33). She is member of the network biomedical research center (CIBER-BBN), the Catalan Society of Chemistry (SCQ) and member of the board of the specialized group in nanoscience and molecular materials of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ). Her research is focused on the design and synthesis of new multifunctional molecules as well as the study of their properties once nanostructured as self-assembled monolayers (SAM), organic nanoparticles (ONP) or hydrogels towards applications in different fields such as molecular optoelectronics and also as biomaterials for diagnostics, tissue engineering and immunotherapy
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César Rodriguez-Emmenegger (IBEC, Spain)
César Rodriguez-Emmenegger is a Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) in Barcelona, Spain. The overarching goal of his research is to uncover design rules to develop materials capable of communicating with living matter —pathogens, cells, tissues— and directing its behavior in a self-regulated manner to enable new biomaterials, therapeutics, and medical devices. He studied Chemical Engineer at Universidad de la República, Uruguay; and a PhD in Biophysics and Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in Prague under the mentorship of Eduard Brynda and Aldo Bologna Alles. He was a Group Leader at the DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials (Aachen) before joining IBEC.
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Giulio Rosati (ICN2, Spain)
Dr. Giulio Rosati is a biomedical engineer with a PhD in Biotechnology. Currently he is a postdoc researcher in Prof. Arben Merkoçi’s group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Bellaterra, Barcelona. His research is focused on electrochemical biosensors for healthcare, wearable, environmental, and food safety applications. Dr. Rosati has a particular interest on inkjet printing techniques for the fabrication of sensors, biosensors, and flexible electronics. He develops these technologies studying innovative nanofunctional inks, materials, and substrates. During his career Dr. Rosati worked for companies, spin-offs, universities, and public and private research institutions. He participated to several business competitions with biosensing technologies. Recently, he published an important review about the bottlenecks in the path from an idea to the market in the same field. Dr. Rosati has a particular interest about technology transfer and implementation science.
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Dekel Rosenfeld (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Dr. Dekel Rosenfeld received her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. During her Ph.D., her research focused on understating the involvement of mechanical forces in engineered tissues focusing on vascularized engineered tissues and differentiation of embryonic stem cells. After completing her PhD she joined the Bioelectronics group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. In MIT, Dekel developed a novel magnetothermal approach for peripheral organs using magnetic nanomaterials and alternating magnetic fields. This approach opens new avenues for understanding and treating mental health disorders and influencing nerve regeneration. Dekel is a senior Lecturer at the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tel Aviv University, and she is a Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program Fellow. She is the head of the Nanoengineering for Biomedicine laboratory.
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Daniel Ruiz-Molina (ICN2-CSIC, Spain)
Daniel Ruiz-Molina earned his PhD in polyradical dendrimers at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) under Prof. Jaume Veciana. He then took a postdoctoral position at the University of California San Diego (USA), where he spent three years working on single molecule magnets and molecular switches. Since 2001 he has held a permanent position as a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) researcher, most recently at the ICN2, where he is the leader of the ICN2 Nanostructured Functional Materials Group also known as NanosFun. His main research areas include the fabrication of hybrid colloids and surfaces, biomimetic functional nanostructures, and micro- or nanoparticles for smart applications and encapsulation and delivery systems
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Samuel Sanchez (IBEC, Spain)
Samuel is since 2015 a Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) in Barcelona, Spain. Currently he acts as Deputy Director for the Internationalization of IBEC. Before that, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, IFW Dresden, Germany, MANA-NIMS in Japan. His work spans from fundamental aspects of catalytic and biocatalytic nano-micromotors, 3D Bioprinted BioBOTS, electrochemical biosensors to applications in biomedical and environmental fields. He received several awards and recognitions such as the MIT TR35 as Top Innovator Under 35 in the Spanish edition, Guinness World Records in 2010 and 2017, the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award 2015 and the National Research Award for Young Talent 2016 by the Catalan Foundation of Research among others. He received the ERC-Starting Grant in 2013, and two ERC-Proof-of-concept in 2016 and 2017. He has published about 130 papers with h-index of 48 and he has filed 6 patents.
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Zvi Yaari (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Dr. Zvi Yaari received his B.Sc., M.Sc, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. During his Ph.D. studies, Dr. Yaari rationally designed a high-throughput screening technology for matching cancer patients with the most potent anticancer agent in a personalized manner. This technology allows the screening of various drugs simultaneously inside the patient body and has a single-cell resolution. After completing his Ph.D., Zvi conducted his postdoctoral research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center in New York. Zvi focused on developing nanotechnologies for early cancer detection by harnessing single-walled carbon nanotubes and artificial intelligence to engineer smart optical sensors. Zvi is the head of the laboratory for Sensing Nanomaterials & Controlled Release Technologies located in the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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