The 7th School of Nanomedicine 2026 will feature invited lectures by leading scientists and experts in nanotechnology, biomaterials, and medical imaging.
Exploring the Exposome: Linking Environment, Health, and Disease
- Mauro Bologna – Department of Health, Life, Environment, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
- Chantalle Moulton – Human Longevity Program, IRCCS San Raffaele Roma, Via della Pisana 235, Rome, 00166, Italy
From Biomaterials and Nanotechnology to Complex Living Systems in Healthcare
- Luisa De Cola – Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (DISFARM), University of Milan, Milan, Italy and IRCCS Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy
- Gianluca Farinola – Department of Chemistry, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
- Paolo Netti – Center for Advanced Biomaterials for HealthCare@CRIB, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, and CRIB, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
- Laura Russo – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy and CURAM Research Centre for Medical Devices, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Emerging Platforms in Diagnostics, Synthetic Biology and Nanomedicine
- Anna Rita Bilia – Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
- Francesco Ricci – Department of Chemistry, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
Advanced Nanomaterials and Micro- and Nanosystems for Biomedical Applications
- Lucrezia Caselli – Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy and Center for Colloid and Surface Science (CSGI), University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Lucia Curri – Department of Chemistry, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy and Institute for Physical Chemical Processes (IPCF), CNR and INSTM, Bari, Italy
- Fabrizio Mancin – Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- Salvador Pané Vidal – Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
ERC GIULIa: Magnetic Hyperthermia for Metastasized Tumor Treatment
- Loretta del Mercato – Institute of Nanotechnology, National Research Council (CNR-NANOTEC), Ecotekne Campus, Lecce, Italy and Tecnomed Puglia – Technopole for Precision Medicine (Biotech Lecce Hub), Lecce, Italy
- Jelena Kolosnjaj-Tabi – CNRS CRCN, “Cellular Biophysics” Team
- Urs Hafeli – Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Teresa Pellegrino – Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
- Davide Peddis – Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genova, Genova, Italy and Genova INSTM RU, nM2-Lab, University of Genova, Genova, Italy and Institute of Structure of Matter, National Research Council, nM2-Lab, Rome, Italy
- Nicolò Silvestri – Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
Connecting Infrastructures, Empowering Research: From PNRR to European Networks
- Federico Forneris – Fondazione INF-ACT, Pavia, Italy and Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Giancarlo Tria – RI Itaca, CNR-Institute of Crystallography URT Caserta, c/o DiSTABiF, Caserta, Italy