Italian Embassy - Office of the Scientific Attaché in Sweden, Norway and Iceland

Ambasciata d’Italia, Ufficio dell’Addetto Scientifico
YKI – Institute for Surface Chemistry

Swedish-Italian Workshop on
Nanoscience and Medical Technology
YKI – Institute for Surface Chemistry, Stockholm, 29-30 September 2011

29 September 2011

Opening Session
Chair: Piero Mazzinghi

Welcome by H.E. Ambassador of Italy Angelo Persiani
Welcome by Peter Alberius, YKI President


Session I - Bio-sensing
Chair: Andrea Fornara

Fabio Beltram (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Nanobiotechnology at Laboratorio NEST: molecular sensing and delivery

Dag Winkler (Chalmers, Göteborg)
Will high-Tc SQUIDs give new insights into the human brain?

Giuseppe Spoto (CNR, Catania)
Advanced Methods for DNA Detection

Bengt Kasemo (Chalmers, Göteborg)
Development of new Analytical Methods for Nanoscience, Functional Materials and Medical technology; QCM-D and LSPR

Giovanni Marletta (University of Catania)
Nano-confinement Strategies for Biofunctional Surfaces


Keynote lecture
Chair: Piero Mazzinghi

Paolo Macchiarini (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)
Successful Transplantation of a Synthetic Tissue Engineered Windpipe


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


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

Piero Baglioni (University of Florence)
Smart Supramolecular Architectures for Gene and Drug Delivery

Ulla Elofsson (YKI-CODIRECT, Stockholm)
CODIRECT at YKI - A centre perspective

Paolo Caliceti (University of Padova)
Polymer therapeutics: step by step to the future

30 September 2011

Keynote lecture II
Chair: Piero Mazzinghi

Mats Johnsson, Ministry of Education and Research in Sweden
Swedish government policy for research

Linda Bell, VINNOVA, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems
EU funding opportunities within FP7


Session IV - Tissue engineering & biomaterials
Chair: Mamoun Muhammed

Elisa Figallo (Finceramica, Faenza)
Regenerative Nanomedicine and open innovation in the repair of connectives

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

Luigi Ambrosio (CNR, Napoli)
Polymer based platforms for Tissue Regeneration


Session V - Bioanalysis & Medical Technology
Chair: Fabio Biscarini

Magnus Schou (Astra Zenca, Södertälje)
Microfluidic radiochemistry with positron emitters

Adam Feiler (YKI, Stockholm)
Understanding structure and function in biolubrication

Helene Andersson Svahn (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


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
Tommy Nylander (Lund University)
Processes at biomembrane surfaces of relevance for drug delivery

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

Anders Gunnarsson (SP Medtech, Borås)
Miniaturized sensors for medical diagnostic and drug discovery applications

Gaio Paradossi (University "Tor Vergata" Rome)
Theranostics using microbubbles: An Italian-Swedish collaboration

Round table
Chair: Piero Mazzinghi

Booklet of Abstracts