Scientific program

June 8th

13:00 – 14:00Registration
14:00 – 14:15Welcome speech
Session 1Nano- and bio-materials for nanomedicine
14:15 – 15:00From Tissue Engineering to Regenerative Medicine
Ranieri Cancedda, University of Genova, Italy
15:00 – 15:45Nanomaterials for the Repair of Spinal Cord Injury
Maurizio Prato, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trieste University, Italy
15:45 – 16:15Break
16:15 – 16:30Industrial clips: Quantum Design Italia
Nanoparticles characterization techniques: dimensions, physical and morphological properties
16:30 – 17:15 The chemistry-biology interplay emerging form molecule-coated nanoparticles
Fabrizio Mancin – University of Padova, Italy
17:15 – 18:00Nanoparticles meet Organized soft assemblies : Challenges and opportunities for the biomedical field
Debora Berti – University of Firenze, Italy

June 9th

Session 2Tissue engineering
9:00 – 9:453D Bioprinted tissue models by click chemistry approaches
Laura Russo, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
9:45 – 10:00 Industrial clip: T.E.E.S. Srl
T.E.E.S. srl, design and manufacture custom mechanical equipment for Scientific Research Laboratories
10:00 – 10:30Break
10:30 – 11:15 Hybrid nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Luisa de Cola, University of Milano, Department DISFARM and Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS
11:15 – 12:00Functional materials from living organisms
Gianluca Maria Farinola, Chemistry Department – University of Bari, Italy
12:00 – 12:45Physics, spectroscopy and imaging applied to biology and medicine
Enzo di Fabrizio, DISAT Department, Turin Politech, Italy
12:45 – 13:45Lunch
Session 3From bench to bed
13:45 – 14:30 From Piazzale Tecchio to Wall Street: the short story of a long polymer hydrogel
Alessandro Sannino – Salento University, Italy
14:30 – 15:15Supramolecular Approaches to Design Novel Antivirals
Francesco Stellacci – Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
15:15 – 16:00Break
16:00 – 18:00Special session:The human-machine relation and AI challenges for nanomedicine in the digital age
Maria Chiara Carrozza – President of CNR & Massimo Durante – University of Torino

moderated by
Giacomo Pisani – Euricse Researcher – Trento

June 10th

Session 4:Therapeutics nanotechnological approaches
9:00 – 09:45Magnetic nanoparticles and clusters to combine magnetic hyperthermia with different therapeutic approaches
Teresa Pellegrino – Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
09:45 – 10:30Glycosylated Carbon Nanostructures for Emergent Viruses
Nazario Martin, Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
10:30 – 11:00Break
11.00 – 11.45Engineering 3D human tissues equivalent as reliable and predictive tools for clinical implementation of personalized and precision medicine
Paolo A. Netti – Center for Advanced Biomaterials for HealthCare@CRIB Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, and CRIB, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli Italy
11:45 – 12:30Current challenges in the understanding and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: limitation and perspective of nanomedical approaches
Maria Laura Giuffrida, CNR – Istituto di Cristallografia Catania, Italy
12:30 – 13:15Nanoparticles in BNCT
Simonetta Geninatti, Crich PhD, Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Molecolari e Scienze per la Salute, Centro Imaging Molecolare, Università di Torino
13:15 – 13.30Concluding remarks

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