Workshop: Biomedical applications of functionalised carbon nanotubes

The workshop is organised by the Marie-Curie Research Training Netwerk CARBIO (www.carbio.eu).

Dates: 6. - 9. September 2010 at Castle Eckberg in Dresden.

• Scope of the workshop

Extraordinary physical and chemical properties render carbon nanotubes promising candidates as biomedical agents for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Filling the nanotubes with tailored materials forms packages in which the active content is encapsulated by a protecting carbon shell. The workshop aims at highlighting the potential as well as critically reviewing risks and challenges of applying carbon nanotbes in biomedicine. The workshop will combine contributions from chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, and medicine.

Topics:

- synthesis and biofunctionalisation routes
- physical properties of carbon nanotubes relevant to biomedical applications
- Interaction of CNT with biological environments (toxicity, cellular uptake, immune response, environmental impact,...)
- Drug delivery and Targeting
- Sensoring and Imaging
- Hyperthermia

• Invited Speakers / Invited Attendees:

Hanene Ali-Boucetta (UoE/MRC, London)
Ewa Borowiak-Palen (U Sczeczin)
David Carroll (Wake Forrest U)
Giuseppe Cirillo (U Calabria, Italy)
Rodger Duffin (U Edinburgh)
Kati Erdmann (U Hospital Dresden)
Emmanuel Flahaut (Cirimat Toulouse)
Marianna Foldvari (U Waterloo, CA)
Silke Hampel (IFW Dresden)
Andreas Jordan (MAGFORCE, Berlin)
Yulia Krupskaya (IFW Dresden)
Johnjoe McFadden (Molecular Genetics, U Surrey)
Cecilia Menard-Moyon (IBMC Strasbourg)
S. Moein Moghimi (U Copenhagen, Denmark)
Francois Rossi* (JRC Ispra)
Kaiyu Shou (NANOMA, ETH Zürich)
Bennie ten Haken (Biomagnetism Group, U Twente)
Aldrik Velders (U Twente)
Orazio Vittorio (NINIVE U Parma)
Anja Wolter* (IFW Dresden)
*Attendance to be confirmed

 

• Contributed presentations: 

Please contact the organisers if you are interested in participating. The workshop fee of 200,- Euros will cover daily lunch, coffee and bevarages at the coffee breaks, and the conference dinner.

• Organisation / Chairs

  The workshop is organised by the Marie-Curie Research Training Netwerk CARBIO (www.carbio.eu).

  Chair: Rüdiger Klingeler (r.klingeler_at_ifw-dresden.de)
  Organisation: Manja Maluck (m.maluck_at_ifw-dresden.de)

• Tentative Schedule (link)

• Venue & Accommodation (link)

Funding by the European Community through the Marie Curie Reasearch Training Network CARBIO under Contract MRTN-CT-2006-035616 is gratefully acknowledged.