Next week Anna Roig lectures at EPFL
Anna will give a lecture in the “Advances in Materials” seminar series at the Institute of Materials of the
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Engineering Iron Oxide Nanoparticles towards Clinical Applications
Anna Roig
Materials Science Institute of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Monday, October 27, 2014, in lecture hall MX F1 at 1:15 pm
Monday, October 27, 2014, in lecture hall MX F1 at 1:15 pm
Abstract: Iron oxide nanoparticles are becoming an important class of materials in nanomedicine. They can be used for imaging as contrast agents in MRI as well as for therapeutical purposes and are FDA approved. The talk will start with a brief introduction to iron oxide nanoparticles, a description of the characteristics that make them attractive in the health sector and some of their recently reported biomedical applications. It will then be followed by the workflow we have undertaken to validate in-house synthesized magnetic nanoparticles and nanocapsules to promote angiogenesis as a brain neurorepair therapy after stroke.(1,2)
1) Rapid synthesis of water-dispersable SPIONs by microwave assisted route for safe labeling of endothelial progenitor cells, Acta Biomaterialia 2014, 10, 3775. 2) In vitro Angiogenic Performance and in vivo Brain Targeting of Magnetized Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Neurorepair Therapies, Nanomedicine 2014, 10, 225
