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Giuseppe Battaglia (IBEC, Spain)
Giuseppe, also referred to as Beppe, is a Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) professor and group leader at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), part of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). Beppe is an Honorary Professor in Biophysical Chemistry at University College London (UCL) and a visiting professor at the West China Hospital - Sichuan University. Before his current position at IBEC, Beppe held a chair in Molecular Bionics at UCL (2013-2022), a chair in Synthetic Biology (2011-2013), and a lectureship (2006-2011) at the University of Sheffield. He leads a diverse team of scientists dedicated to investigating the transport of molecules and cells across body barriers and developing novel nanomedicines. He is also the founder of Somaserve Ltd, a biotech company specialising in precision nanomedicine and gene therapy.
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Aurélie Bessière (CNRS, France)
Aurélie Bessière graduated from Chimie ParisTech and Sorbonne University, Paris and earned a Ph.D. in materials science from Sorbonne University (2002) on electrochromism. She conducted postdoctoral research on scintillating crystals at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and, in 2004, received a Marie Curie Fellowship to study quantum well photovoltaic cells at Imperial College London, UK. A research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research since 2006, she has explored persistent luminescence nanoparticles and scintillators at the Chemistry Research Institute of Paris. Since 2019, she has been developing cancer-targeting luminescent nano-platforms at the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier
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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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Maria Maddalena Calabretta (University of Bologna, Italy)
Maria Maddalena Calabretta holds a PhD in Chemistry (2018) and she is Senior assistant professor in Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, University of Bologna. Her scientific activity involves the development of analytical methods with bio-chemiluminescence detection and their implementation in portable analytical devices for point-of-care and point-of-need applications, with particular attention to sustainable and low-cost materials. She is an expert in bioluminescent whole-cell biosensors and 3D models applied to biomedical and pharmaceutical screening, environmental and food. She is coauthor of papers on high-impact scientific journal of Analytical Chemistry (h-index 23, 1,694 citations) and she participated to several projects funded by Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, PRIMA Partnership, NATO-SPS, EU, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, MIUR. She received several awards including the Lions Prize "Claudio Bonivento” SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION and “Premio Spada” (2018) for the best PhD thesis in Analytical Chemistry.
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Gianni Ciofani (IIT, Italy)
Gianni Ciofani, Ph.D., is Senior Researcher Tenured at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia -Italian Institute of Technology, IIT- (Pontedera, Italy), where he is Principal Investigator of the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Unit and Coordinator of the Center for Materials Interfaces. He has been Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Torino (Torino, Italy; 2015-2019) and Visiting Professor at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan; 2021) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2024). His main research interests concern smart nanomaterials for nanomedicine, microphysiological systems, and nanomedicine in altered gravity conditions. He is coordinator or unit leader of several projects: in particular, he was awarded a Starting Grant and three Proof-of-Concept Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Thanks to grants from the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, he had the opportunity to carry out four experimental campaigns onboard the International Space Station. In 2018, his real-scale model of the blood-brain barrier was highlighted in the Annual Report on the ERC Activities and Achievements.
Gianni Ciofani is author of more than 200 papers on international journals, 3 edited books, and 18 book chapters, and delivered about 90 invited talks/lectures in international contexts. He serves as Panel Member / Reviewer for many funding agencies (including ERC, Swiss National Science Foundation, French National Research Agency, National Science Center of Poland), for about 200 international journals, and as Editorial Board Member of Bioactive Materials, International Journal of Nanomedicine, Journal of Physics: Materials, Nanomedicine UK, Nano Trends, and Scientific Reports; he is Specialty Chief Editor (Nanobiotechnology) for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. He has been consistently ranked in the Stanford University’s list of “World’s Top 2%” scientists since 2020 (Elsevier data).
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Jose De la Cruz (INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, Spain)
Dr. Jose de la Cruz is a physicist and Advanced Development Team Lead at InBrain Neuroelectronics, where he focuses on integrating 2D materials and active electronics into implantable medical devices. With a PhD from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), his expertise lies in thin-film encapsulation and the development of advanced neural interfaces. His work bridges materials science, thin-film technology, and neuroscience, aiming to enhance the reliability and performance of next-generation neuroelectronic devices. Passionate about translating cutting-edge research into clinical solutions, he contributes to the design of high-density, flexible neural interfaces for therapeutic and diagnostic applications
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Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz (University of Oviedo, Spain)
Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz holds a PhD in Chemistry (2006) from the University of Oviedo (Spain). Most of his post-doctoral career has been spent at Prof. Merkoçi’s group at ICN2 (Barcelona, Spain), where he specialized in Nanobiosensors. He has participated in +25 national and international projects (5 as PI) and is the coauthor of over 95 scientific publications (+4100 citations; h-index: 39) and 4 patents. As of December 2023, he holds a position as Associate Professor in the Nanobioanalysis Group, Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo (Spain) where he is also the Group Leader. His research interests focus on the development of biosensing systems based on nanoparticles and nanochannels for point-of-care diagnostic applications
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Francesco Enrichi (University of Verona, Italy)
Francesco Enrichi is Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, University of Verona (Italy), where he works within the Optical and Vibrational Spectroscopy Lab.
He received his PhD in Materials Science in 2004 from the University of Padova (Italy). He has been a Vinnmer Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow at Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), Research Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and at the Enrico Fermi Centre in Rome, and Head of the Optics and Characterization Technology Unit at Veneto Nanotech, the Italian Cluster for Nanotechnologies. He also worked as Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) before joining the University of Verona in 2019.
His research focuses on luminescent nanostructured materials, including phosphors for lighting, rare-earth-doped glasses and glass-ceramics for spectral conversion in solar cells, zeolites for environmental remediation and sensing, and multifunctional nanoparticles for theranostics.
He is the author of about 130 research papers, three book chapters, and has delivered more than 20 invited talks at international conferences.
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Mari Carmen Estévez (ICN2, Spain)
M.-Carmen Estévez obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona (2005), where she developed immunochemical techniques for environmental monitoring. She then completed a postdoctoral stay at the University of Florida (2006–2008), focusing on nanobiotechnology for in-vitro diagnostics. She is currently a Tenure Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), within the Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2). Her research focuses on developing advanced biosensing tools, with particular emphasis on plasmonic and silicon photonic biosensors, biofunctionalization strategies, their integration into compact prototypes, and applications in clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and industrial settings, with the aim of transferring them to decentralized applications. She has co-authored more than 50 publications in leading journals in nanotechnology, analytical chemistry, biosensors, and optics, participated in over 30 national and international funded projects, and contributed to more than 40 (inter-)national congresses
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Paula Ferreira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Paula Ferreira is a coordinator researcher at CICECO-DEMaC/UA. Her main scientific interests include the design and characterization of functional materials, namely ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, multiferroics, and electric conductive materials. She also works with biomaterials such as polysaccharides for sustainable applications. She published over 169 papers and 5 book chapters, with ca. 4571 citations (h-index 39 (SCOPUS)). She has given over 130 scientific and technical talks at international conferences and 28 invited talks. Paula Ferreira was Principal Investigator of over 10 research project awards. She participates in several projects with industry During the last 20 years, she is(had) supervising(ed) 13 post-doctoral fellows, 20 PhD (12 already concluded and 8 in progress), 47 Master (3 in progress) and 40 last year project students and more that 40 initial research fellows.
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Moran Frenkel-Pinter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - TBC)
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 and Vice Director of the Minerva Center for the Planetary Emergence of Life, 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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Gabriel Gomila (IBEC, Spain)
Gabriel Gomila has got a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona (1997) with a thesis based on the theoretical modelling of electron transport at semiconductor interfaces. Later on, he was post-doctoral researcher at three different universities in Italy, France and Spain where he specialized in the theoretical modelling of nanoescale electronic devices. In 2001 he moved to the Department of Electronics at the University of Barcelona thanks to a Ramon y Cajal fellowship, where he expanded his research interests towards the merge of electronics and biological fields, thus focusing on microsystems for biological applications on-a-chip and on Atomic Force Microscopy for the electrical study of biological samples. In 2005 he became Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona and in 2008 Group Leader at IBEC, and in 2014 he was awarded with the ICREA Academia prize, which recognizes and promotes the research excellence of the university staff of Catalonia. Since 2017 he is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona. His current research interests are centred on the understanding of the bioelectrical phenomena at the nanoscale. He combines research activities with teaching on Nanobiotechnology, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Bioelectricity and Nanomedicine at the University of Barcelona.
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Valeria Grazú (INMA,CSIC-UNIZAR, Spain)
A native of Uruguay, Valeria Grazú received her Ph.D. in Science from Autonomous University of Madrid in 2006. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Aragon Institute of Nanoscience (INA) from 2006 to 2013, joining the Nanotechnology and Apoptosis Group in 2007. From 2013 to 2015 she held the position of Research & Development Director at Nanoimmunotech S.L. In 2015 she was granted a Ramón y Cajal fellowship at the University of Zaragoza.
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Joana Guerreiro (IPLEXMED / LabRISE/ISEP, Portugal)
Joana Guerreiro holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Porto, Portugal, and had the opportunity to carry out postdoctoral research at Aarhus University, Denmark, and at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL). She is one of the co-founders of the startup IPLEXMED, which is developing NEXAGUARD, a portable, lab-grade diagnostic platform based on graphene sensors, and is an auxiliary researcher at CIETI/ISEP – School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto. With over 18 years of experience in biosensing and nanotechnology, Joana focuses on bridging science and applied innovation, contributing to the development of fast and decentralized diagnostic platforms.
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Plinio Innocenzi (University of Sassari, Italy)
2005 - present - Full professor in Science and Technology of Materials Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari. Italy Associate researchers of the National Instituto of Nuclear Physics (INFN). Director of the Laboratory of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Academician of European Academy of Sciences 2022 August – June 2023. Distinguished visiting faculty. Department of Chemistry. United Arab Emirates University. 2010 – 2018 – Science and Technology Counsellor at the Embassy of Italy to the People’s Republic of China (Beijing)
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Mariana Ionita (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
Mariana Ionita was educated at top level universities (Politecnico di Milano, Technical University of Denmark, Universita degli Studi di Milano) and gained her PhD in Chemistry and in Bioengineering in 2008 from Politecnico di Milano. Thereafter she was appointed Professor and project co-coordinator at Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica Bucharest. Mariana has an outstanding contribution related to bone tissues regeneration solution and additive manufacturing / 3 D printing topic in which she emerged as a game changer achieving structures with predictable bone tissue regenerative performance or fine-tuned structures with anisotropic mechanical properties. She has co-authored four research monographs, more than 95 peer reviewed scientific papers, and participated in over 50 different scientific events as keynote and invited lecturer.
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Anna Laromaine (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain)
Dr. Anna Laromaine is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). She holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has conducted research at Imperial College London, MIT, and Harvard University. Her work combines nanotechnology and biology to develop smart, biocompatible materials for medical applications using 2D/3D cultures and C. elegans models.
Author of over 80 scientific papers (H-index 30), she is also co-founder of the spin-off Osmoblue and holds an MBA from Pompeu Fabra University. Committed to mentoring and science outreach, she actively promotes collaboration and leadership in the scientific community.
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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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Josep Nogués (ICREA / ICN2, Spain)
ICREA Research Professor Josep Nogués earned his degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1986. After obtaining his PhD at the Kungliga Tekniska Höskolan (RoyalInstitute of Technology) in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1993, he moved to the University of California San Diego (USA) to complete his postdoctoral studies. Four years later he returned to the UAB as an associate researcher, becoming an ICREA research professor in 2001 and a founding member of the former Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN) shortly thereafter. His Magnetic Nanostructures group was formally integrated into the ICN structure in 2006.
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Yossi Paltiel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - TBC)
Prof. Paltiel is currently the dean of scince and mathematics at HUJI, he is leading the quantum nano engineering group and has two startups. He published more than 250 papers in leading journals and has 15 patents. The group are world leaders in studying the CISS effect. Our group research focusses on finding ways to incorporate quantum mechanics properties such as entanglement, delocalization, coherence, and spin into room temperature devices mimicking biology. Paltiel was chairing the 2025 Gordon conference on CISS. Winner of the IVS Israel Vacuum Society Excellent Researcher Award and the Kaye Innovation Award
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Claudio Parolo (ISGlobal/URV, Spain)
I am a biotechnologist with over 15 years of experience translating nanotechnology into rapid diagnostic platforms that reach patients. My research bridges lateral-flow immunoassays and electrochemical biosensors to enable quantitative detection of clinically relevant antibodies and antigens directly at the point of care. With a strong translational focus, I aim to improve the diagnosis and management of infectious and neglected tropical diseases (including malaria, dengue, and others) by developing affordable, high-performance diagnostic and prognostic tools. Appointments at Harvard, UCL, UCSB, ICN2, ISGlobal, and URV have fostered an extensive international network of collaborators. My broader mission is to advance immunology-driven precision medicine through technologies for continuous biomarker monitoring and seamless integration from decentralized to central laboratory settings worldwide.
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Juan Pellico (ICMAB/CSIC, Spain)
Dr. Juan Pellico is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), specialising in the design of nanoparticle-based probes for advanced medical imaging. Over the past decade, he has driven innovations in PET, MRI, PET/MRI, and PEPT, resulting in 2 patents, more than 45 publications, and prestigious awards from the European Society of Molecular Imaging, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the UK Preclinical Imaging community. As Principal Investigator, he has secured multiple competitive grants and established strong collaborations with both academic and industrial partners. He also plays an active role in the imaging community as editorial board member of EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry, sub-chair of the European Society of Molecular Imaging, and member of the assessment committee of the Spanish Distributed Biomedical Imaging Network (ReDIB).
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Valerio Pini (Mecwins, Spain)
Valerio Pini, PhD, is Senior Scientist and Head of Engineering at Mecwins. He has nearly two decades of experience in research and development of ultrasensitive detection systems in nanotechnology, with expertise spanning optical, plasmonic, and optomechanical instrumentation.
He has authored around thirty peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals and is co-inventor on more than twenty granted patents across ten international patent families in the field of optical biosensing technologies.
At Mecwins, he leads the design, prototyping, and system integration of the AVAC platform, covering hardware architecture and control software, enabling digital nanoparticle counting for biomarker quantification with extreme sensitivity.
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Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - TBC)
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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Xavier Rovira Clavé (IBEC, Spain)
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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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María Concepción Serrano López-Terradas (ICMM/CSIC, Spain)
I am a Doctor in Biology (2006) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). I was a FPU predoctoral fellow at UCM, a MINECO postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University (USA), a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at ICMM-CSIC, and a Miguel Servet postdoctoral fellow at the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos. Since 2017, I am a tenured scientist (Científica Titular) at the Group of Materials for Medicine and Biotechnology (ICMM-CSIC) and have recently approved the promotion to Senior Tenured Scientist (Investigadora Científica; pending to be effective). I have published over 70 research articles, co-edited a book for Springer-Nature and contributed to more than 100 scientific conferences, besides an active involvement in outreach with more than 50 activities. I have been PI of 3 projects from MICINN and currently coordinate the Piezo4Spine PathFinder project (Horizon Europe, 2023-2026; 4.5 M€). My research interests are focused on biomaterials, regenerative engineering and nanomedicine.
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Miguel Vilaplana (GraphenicaLab, Spain)
Miguel Vilaplana is a versatile professional with a unique blend of expertise in medicine, business, and technology. A trained physician, he gained hands-on patient care experience before immersing himself in the biotech and academic communities at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Biotechnology Network. He also earned a Master’s in Computer Information Systems from Boston University. After returning to Spain, Miguel became an active member of Barcelona’s vibrant biotech ecosystem, eventually joining his family business, where he applied Blue Ocean® Strategy principles to drive growth and innovation.
Since 2015, Miguel has expanded his career to include investments in a wide range of startups, spanning sectors such as nanotechnology, AI, biopharma, e-medicine, fashion, and marketplaces. His diverse portfolio reflects his ability to navigate complex industries, identify high-potential opportunities, and foster groundbreaking ideas. A strong advocate for creativity and innovation, Miguel believes in challenging conventional business models and organizational norms to unlock new possibilities. His career is a testament to his commitment to blending scientific knowledge, entrepreneurial spirit, and strategic thinking to create meaningful impact in both established and emerging fields.
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