October 9th
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Registration |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Welcome |
| Session 1 | Tissue engineering |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | TARGETING AN OLD STORY WAITING FOR SOLUTIONS Luisa De Cola Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, IRCCS, Via Mario Negri, 2, Milan, Italy and Department of Pharmaceutical Science, DISFARM, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy. |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | LIVING MATERIALS FOR BIOMEDICINE Gianluca M. Farinola Dipartimento di Chimica Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, via Orabona 4, Bari, 70126, Italy |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Research Infrastructures: a cornerstone for nanomedicine – ITACA.SB Giancarlo Tria, Research Infrastructure Manager CNR-IC c/o DiSTABiF Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” Via Antonio Vivaldi, 43 81100 Caserta CE |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Break & poster session |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | INORGANIC NANOPARTICLES AS EMERGING TOOLS FOR TUMOUR THERAPY AND IMAGING Teresa Pellegrino Italian Institute of Technology, via Morego 30, Genoa, 16163, Italy |
October 10th
| Session 2 | Nano- and bio-materials for medicine/1 |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | INTEGRATING LIPID SCAFFOLDS AND INORGANIC NANOPARTICLES TO DEVELOP HYBRID FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR NANOMEDICINE Lucrezia Caselli Center for Colloid and Surface Science (CSGI), Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | NATURAL PRODUCTS LOADED IN NANOCARRIERS TO CROSS BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS Anna Rita Bilia Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break & poster session |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Presentation of PRP@Ceric Research Infrastructure Dr. Stefano Cozzini PI of the project and Director of the Institute of Research and Technology (RET) at Area Science Park |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | The INF-ACT Extended Partnership program. A multidisciplinary challenge addressing emerging infectious diseases Prof. Federico Forneris President of the INF- ACT Foundation |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | SYNTHETIC DNA-BASED DEVICES, SWITCHES AND GENES FOR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS Francesco Ricci University of Rome Tor Vergata |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch |
| Session 2 | Nano- and bio-materials for medicine/2 |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | PRP@CERIC short talk Dr. Stefano Cozzini PI of the project and Director of the Institute of Research and Technology (RET) at Area Science Park |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | DESIGNING AND TESTING A NANOPARTICLE FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS: THE POLYLIPOIC NANOPARTICLES CASE Fabrizio Mancin Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova (Italy) |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | PROGRAMMED ASSEMBLY OF PHOTO- AND THERMORESPONSIVE PROTOCELLS INTO PROTOCELLULAR MATERIALS CAPABLE OF PHOTO-MECHANO-CHEMICAL TRANSDUCTION Pierangelo Gobbo Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste and Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali, Unità di Trieste (Italy) |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Break & poster session |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Special session |
October 11th
| Session 3 | Therapeutics nanotechnological approaches |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL GLYCOBIOMATERIALS MIMICKING EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ECM): FROM 3D TISSUE MIMETICS TO AI-GUIDED PREDICTIVE SYTNEHSIS Laura Russo University of Milano-Bicocca – School of Medicine and Surgery, via Raoul Follereau 3, Vedano al Lambro (MB), Italy |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | THE NANO-BIO INTERFACE IMPARTS EMERGING PROPERTIES TO BIOMIMETIC NANOPARTICLES Ennio Tasciotti San Raffaele University, Rome & IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break & poster session |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | NATURAL PRODUCTS IN DRUG DISCOVERY FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY Angelo Fontana Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Campi Flegrei 34, IT-80078 Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy and Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 12, IT-80126, Naples, Italy |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | REPLICATING HUMAN TISSUES IN VITRO FOR REGENERATIVE, PERSONALIZED AND PRECISION MEDICINE Giorgia Imparato Center for Advanced Biomaterials for HealthCare@CRIB Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, and CRIB, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli Italy |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Concluding remarks |