The 1st International CiMUS Symposium "From bench to human translational research" took place this July in our research centre, from the 11th to the 12th of July.This scientific meeting counted with national and international speakers discussing the challenges and trends posed by biomedical research from its base to the clinical translation:...
Last Tuesday, taking advantage of the proximity of the summer holidays and the good weather in Santiago, our group met to enjoy a day together. We could take a dip and we shared anecdotes and enjoyed a delicious barbecue. Here's to many more years!
Our group has attended the EUFEPS-FIGON congress, which took place in Leiden, Holland, between June 1st and 3rd.
During January 26th and 28th our group attended the congress Spanish-Portuguese Local Chapter (SPLC-CRS) in Controlled Drug Release. It was planned to be in Tenerife (Spain), but, unfortunately, the current situation did not allow us to attend in person, and the format was translated to an online modality.
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most belligerent brain tumor and the latest advances on its treatment have certainly unsuccess. Once diagnosed the tumor, the mid-term patient survival is about year and a half and less than 5% of the patients survive after 5 years when administrating the general line of treatment based on tumor surgical removal,...
From Natural polymers and biomimetics group and Biomaterials and drug delivery group we wish you a Merry Christmas and a full of science 2022!
One more year, the Nanobiofar group have gathered to celebrate the annual minicongress, organized by first-year thesis students. Fortunately, although the situation is not favorable, we have been able to celebrate it in person since last year had to be held online. We have enjoyed a day together with our labmates from P5 and P6 floor, talking about...
Our colleague Sheila has returned of her predoctoral stay at the University of Nottingham working during 6 months in Cameron Alexander's group (Polymer Therapeutic Lab) and also in Ruman Rahman's group (Molecular Neuro-Oncology and Brain Tumor Drug Delivery Group). There, she has been studying the effect of different cationic polyplexes as gene...
Our predoctoral student Rocío Mellid Carballal has obtained in December 2021 a FPU (University Teacher Training) scholarship for the development of her doctorate in the Biomaterials & Drug Delivery group at the CiMUS (University of Santiago de Compostela) under the supervision of professors Marcos García Fuentes and Carmen Rivas. His doctoral...
The work "Nanosystems based on chitosan as a platform for administration of vaccines against pneumococcus" carried out by our predoctoral student Sandra Robla, has been recognized with the Ernesto Viéitez Cortizo 2021 Research Award from the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences (RAGC) in the category of young personal researcher under 30 years old.