International School of Nanomedicine
School Directors Massimo Masserini & Mauro Ferrari
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for
Scientific Culture
ERICE (Sicily) – Italy
​Organizational Secretariat: Silvia Sesana
e-mail: nanomedicine.school@unimib.it
1-5 July 2024
7th Course "Challenges and Prospects of Nanomedicine
for Brain Targeting"
Course Director: Francesca Re
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY July 1, 2024 - ARRIVALS
TUESDAY July 2, 2024
09:00 Opening remarks on behalf of School Directors: Mauro Ferrari & Massimo Masserini
Welcome by Workshop Director: Francesca Re
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SESSION I: Blood-brain barrier models
09:30-10:30 Marie-Pierre Dehouck (University of Artois, France.)
Establishing and using in vitro blood-brain barrier models
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10:30-10:45 Marco Micali (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
PULSAR: Predictiva ultrasound localization and skull abberation reference for nimal model experiments
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10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
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11:15-11:30 Marcelo Kravicz (university MIlano-Bicocca)
Functionalized liposomes for autometed fluorine-18 surface radiolabelling and in vivo PET imaging
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11:30-12:30 Maria Anna Deli (Institute of Biophysics, Szeged, Hungary)​
History of the in vitro BBB models from the first cell cultures to organ-on-chip models
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12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
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SESSION II: Blood-brain barrier alterations in brain disorders
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14:30-15:30 Anna Dimberg (Uppsala University, Sweden.)
Vascular abnormalities in glioblastoma, blood-brain-barrier breakdown and beyond
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15:30-15:45 West Kristian Paraiso (Universitat Internacinal de Catalunya, Spain)
Modulating energy balance using a nanomedicine platform targeting brain lipid metabolism
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15:45 - 16:00 Camilla Paolini (University Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Oxytocin promotes blood-brain barrier formation in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:45 Syed Bilal Nizami (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Focused Ultrasound for Smart Magnetic Materials Delivery to the Brain
16:45 - 17:45 Franzisca Richter (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany)
Nanoparticle-mediated nose to brain microRNA delivery for treatment of Parkinson’s disease
WEDNESDAY July 3, 2024
SESSION III: New strategies to cross the blood-brain barrier
09:00 Marzia Bedoni (LABION, IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy)
Biophotonics for the Characterization of Liposomes ​for Glioblastoma and Alzheimer’s Disease treatment​
10:00 - 10:15 Zhancun Bian (Aix Marseille University, France)
Bola-amphiphilic glycodendrimers for targeting blood-brain barrier
10:15 - 10:30 Aleksandra Predeina (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy)
Metal-organic Framework-based Magnetic Composites as Drug Delivery System for Cancer Treatment
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
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11:00 - 11:15 Abdechakour Elkihel (Aix Marseille University, France)
Dynamic self-assembling dendrimer nanosystems to target neuroinvasive pathogens
11:15 - 12:15 Bruno Sarmento (i3S, University of Porto, Portugal)
Modulation of Pharmacokinetics of Multiple-targeting Nanomedicines for Brain Disorders Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier
12:15 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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14:30 - 15:30 Kalimandeer K. Singh (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom)
Designing Nanomedicine for overcoming blood brain barrier for targeted glioblastoma therapy
15:30 - 15:45 Marion Le Meur (IMDEA Nanociencia, Spain)
Nanoparticles to target the circadian clock in Alzheimer’s disease: optimization of brain penetration
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SESSION IV Smart nanotechnologies for therapy of neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumours
15:45 - 16:00 Franciely de Rufino Almeida Lima (Preto University of São Paulo - Brasil)
Therapeutic strategy development, characterization, and in vitro antitumor activity evaluation in glioblastoma
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Gianni Ciofani (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy)
Piezoelectric nanotransducers for brain cancer therapy and neuronal stimulation
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SOCIAL DINNER
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THURSDAY July 4, 2024
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SESSION IV: Smart nanotechnologies for therapy of neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumours
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09:00 - 10:00 Francois Lux (Université de Lyon, France)
How to translate an ultrasmall hybrid nanoparticle to the clinic: AGuIX nanoparticles as an example.
10:00 - 10:15 Francesca Giulimondi (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)
Apolipoproteins-enriched nucleoproteic corona enhances effective gene delivery in brain cancer 3D models
10:15 - 10:30 Erica Quagliarini (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)
Bio-coronated liposomal Temozolomide mitigates growth in 3D brain tumor models
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 POSTER SESSION
Jiri Drab and Tana Zavodna, Sebastiano Micocci, Sahel Ghasemzadeh, Francesco Saverio Sica and Michela Patrucco, Veronica Fontanini
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30 Ramassamy Charles (Institut National Recherche Scientifique, Canada)
Comparative analysis of polymeric nanoparticles and extracellular vesicles as nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems: towards optimizing therapeutic efficacy for Alzheimer's disease therapy
15:30 - 15:45 Giulia Sierri (University Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Nanoparticle’s shape is the game-changer for a customized delivery through tunneling nanotubes among glioblastoma cells
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Closing Remarks
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Friday July 5, 2022 - DEPARTURES
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF NANOMEDICINE
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture
ERICE (Sicily) – Italy