UCL, CNRS (France) and Angewandte Chemie journal independently publish Press Releases following publication of our article, titled: “Asbestos-like pathogenicity of long carbon nanotubes alleviated by chemical functionalization” in Angewandte Chemie International Edition based on work from Hanene, Antonio and Tian. News about the report have been featured in more than 200 blogs and websites within the first 5 days from their release.
Dr Cyrill Bussy delivers Invited Talk at the “Nanosafe 2012” conference held on 13-15/11/2012 in Grenoble, France.
The Nanomedicine Lab organizes on 01/11/2012 the 2nd UK-KOREA International Symposium on Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging. The symposium was organised in the context of the cooperative project “UK-Korea Life Sciences Focal Point Programme’’ funded by the Global Partnership Fund (GPF), an initiative of the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and the UK Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. The symposium presents the latest findings in Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging both in Korea and Europe and explore collaboration opportunities with the thriving Korean Nanomedicine Community.
Mrs Zahraa-Al Ahmady delivers talk during the Scientific meeting of the COST Action TD1004 “Theragnostics Imaging and Therapy: An Action to Develop Novel Nanosized Systems for Imaging-Guided Drug Delivery” held on 28-30/10/2012 in London.
Dr Hanene Ali-Boucetta departs from the Nanomedicine Lab to start her laboratory as Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at the Medical School, University of Birmingham.
Dr Ania Servant was invited to give a seminar during the International Summer School of Nanosciences Ile de France 2012. Each year, Nanosciences at Ile de France propose to welcome 60 new students and young researchers in the Summer School that this year was held from 24 to 29 of June in Domaine du Tremblay, a few kilometers outside Paris.
The Nanomedicine Lab hosts Dr. Ramon Pons seminar titled: “Small Angle X-Ray Scattering as a tool for soft matter“. Dr. Pons is at the Department of Chemical and Surfactants Technology, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) in Barcelona, Spain.
PhD candidate Ms. Katie Bates gives open seminar on her work. Katie is a 2nd year PhD student working on the use of carbon nanotubes as novel gene delivery vectors against neurodegenerative diseases.
Mrs Zahraa Al-Ahmady and Dr Neus Lozano Valdes were invited speakers in the 243rd ACS National Meeting held from 25 to 29 March 2012 in San Diego, California, USA. Mrs Zahra Al-Ahmady was selected to give 3 talks while Dr Neus Lozano Valdes was selected to give 2 talks and was invited by the “Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry” to Chair the session “Liposomes and Nanoparticles in Biomedicine” of the symposium “Basic Research in Surfactants, Colloids and Nanomaterials”.
Dr. Acelya Yilmazer submitted her PhD thesis in January 2012, titled ‘Mechanisms, Obstacles and Opportunities of Artificially Enveloped Adenovirus for Safe and Efficient Gene Delivery‘. After her successful viva examination she was awarded her PhD title in March 2012.
