Engineering of Nanoparticles for prenatal applications

Partner: ISDI – Image Sensor Design & Innovation 3rd Supervisor: Thalis Anaxagoras Project: We aim to understand how prenatal therapy can be used to treat sickle cell disease (SCD) by developing a nanoparticle delivery system to encapsulate gene-editing tools in...

Gene therapy of traumatic brain injury using focused ultrasound

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI)is a leading cause of death and disability, with no effective restorative treatment to date. Current approaches include direct administration of viral vectors encoding proteins to promote neuroplasticity and neurogenesis....
Imaging microbial infections via novel gallium-68 labelled aptamers

Imaging microbial infections via novel gallium-68 labelled aptamers

It has been estimated that more than 10 million deaths per year will occur by 2050 due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop novel infection-specific imaging techniques that can be translated into the clinical practice as...