Italian-Swedish Workshop on
Nanoscience and Medical technology
YKI – Institute for Surface Chemistry Embassy of Italy
in Sweden
Institute for Surface Chemistry Conference Hall Drottning Kristinas 45, Stockholm September 29th‐30th, 2011 Thursday, 29 September, 2011
08:30 Registration 09:00 Opening Session – Chair: Piero Mazzinghi H.E. Angelo Persiani, Ambassador of Italy in Sweden Peter Alberius, YKI President 09:30 Keynote lecture I – Chair: Piero Mazzinghi Paolo Macchiarini (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm) – TO BE CONFIRMED ”Successful Transplantation of a Synthetic Tissue Engineered Windpipe” 10:00 Coffee break 10:20 Session I – Bio‐sensing – Chair: Andrea Fornara Fabio Beltram (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) – Nanobiotechnology at Laboratorio NEST: molecular sensing and delivery Bengt Kasemo (Chalmers, Göteborg) – Development of new Analytical Methods for Nanoscience, Functional Materials and Medical technology; QCM‐D and LSPR Giuseppe Spoto (CNR, Catania) – Advanced Methods for DNA Detection Dag Winkler (Chalmers, Göteborg) – Will high‐Tc SQUIDs give new insights into the human brain? Giovanni Marletta (University of Catania) – Nano‐confinement Strategies for Biofunctional Surfaces 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Session II – Bio‐electronics – Chair: Bengt Fadeel Agneta Richter Dahlfors (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm) – Medical Nanoscience at Karolinska Institutet Fabio Biscarini (CNR, Bologna) – Interfacing organic field effect transistors to neural cells and networks Lars Montelius (Lund University) – Nano‐enabled technologies ‐ with a special focus on the employment of nanowires for life science applications Luisa Torsi (University of Bari) – Electronic Bio‐sensing with organic thin‐film transistor Magnus Berggren (Linköping University) – Organic Bioelectronics ‐ to regulate signalling of cell systems Paolo Netti (IIT, Naples) – Mastering cell‐material crosstalking at the nanoscale: molecular cues and news 15:00 Coffee break 15:20 Session III – Imaging & delivery – Chair: Paolo Macchiarini Alessandro Maiocchi (Bracco Imaging, Ivrea) – Bracco Imaging: products and R&D Oskar Axelsson (Spago Imaging, Lund) – Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Tumors with T1‐contrast enhancing nanoparticles Silvio Aime (University of Turin) – Nanotechnology at work to improve the potential of MRI contrast agents Mamoun Muhammed (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm) – Nanoparticles for diagnostics and therapeutics Piero Baglioni (University of Florence) – Smart Supramolecular Architectures for Gene and Drug Delivery Paolo Caliceti (University of Padova) – Polymer therapeutics: step by step to the future 17:30 Refreshments Italian-Swedish Workshop on
Nanoscience and Medical technology
YKI – Institute for Surface Chemistry Embassy of Italy
in Sweden
Institute for Surface Chemistry Conference Hall Drottning Kristinas 45, Stockholm September 29th‐30th, 2011 Friday, 30 September, 2011
09:00 Keynote lecture II – Chair: Piero Mazzinghi Mats Johnsson, Ministry of Education and Research in Sweden – EU funding opportunities 09:30 Session IV – Tissue engineering & biomaterials – Chair: Mamoun Muhammed Elisa Figallo (Finceramica, Faenza) – Regenerative Nanomedicine and open innovation in the repair of connectives Herman Sahlin (NOBEL Biocare) – TO BE CONFIRMED ”Dental implant ‐ ceramic biomaterials” Luigi Ambrosio (CNR, Napoli) – Polymer based platforms for Tissue Regeneration Jöns Hilborn (Uppsala University) – Polymers for Tissue Regeneration Maura Monduzzi (University of Cagliari) – 3D vision of human lysozyme adsorbed onto a SBA‐15 nanostructured matrix: a potential depot system Håkan Engqvist (Uppsala University) – Nanobioceramics for hard tissue replacement 11:00 Coffee break 11:20 Session V – Bioanalysis & Medical Technology – Chair: Fabio Biscarini Magnus Schou (Astra Zenca, Södertälje) – Microfluidic radiochemistry with positron emitters Anders Gunnarsson (SP Medtech, Borås) – TO BE CONFIRMED Med tech research within the SP group Helene Andersson Svahn (KTH Royal Institute of technology, Stockholm) – Single cell analysis in microchips and more... Luca Prodi (University of Bologna) – Luminescent Silica Nanoparticles: Extending the Frontiers of Brightness Bengt Fadeel (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm) – Understanding the toxicological properties of nanoparticles manufactured for biomedical applications 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Session VI – Drug delivery & Theranostics – Chair: Maura Monduzzi Giovanni Baldi (Colorobbia, Florence) – Nanoassembled Targeted Hybrid Magnetic Biocarriers for Combined Hyperthermic / Drug Treatment: a Theranostic Approach to Cancer Ulla Elofsson (YKI‐CODIRECT, Stockholm) – CODIRECT at YKI ‐ A centre perspective Teresa Pellegrino (CNR / IIT, Lecce) – Multifunctional magnetic nanobeads for biomedical applications Federico Bussolino (University of Turin) – Stroma‐mediated mechanisms drive cancer spreading to the liver Tommy Nylander (Lund University) – Processes at biomembrane surfaces of relevance for drug delivery Gaio Paradossi (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) – Theranostics using microbubbles: An Italian‐Swedish collaboration 16:00 Round table – Chair: Piero Mazzinghi 16:30 End of the workshop