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U6. Biomaterial Processing and Nanostructuring Unit
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05 Jul The joint expertise of CIBER-BBN Nanomol Group – NANBIOSIS U6 from at ICMAB-CSIC (José Vidal and Vega Lloveras) and NANBIOSIS U25 at UAB (Ana Paula Candiota), led to a recently published article in the prestigious journal Biomacromolecules Brain tumours such as Glioblastomas are a challenge in the clinics and proper diagnosis and follow-up are crucial for patient outcome. Contrast agents are usually administered to patients for assessing blood brain barrier integrity and quantitation of enhancing areas are part of the clinical criteria for estimating response/relapse. However, most contrast agents currently used in clinics are based in metal elements such as[...] 16 May Nora Ventosa, the Scientific Director of NANBIOSIS U6 of Biomaterial Processing and Nanostructuring Unit (and IP of the NANOMOL Group of CIBERBBN at ICMAB-CSIC) has been appointed Research Professor in the last call of the Spanish National Reserach Council (CSIC) This elective process for the selection and appointment of career civil servant, by internal promotion, in the Scale of Research Professors of Public Research Organisms had oppen 6 new positions for Professors under the Materials Science. Nora Ventosa is a Chemical Engineer by the Institut Químic de Sarrià (IQS) and Doctor in Chemistry by the Universitat Ramon Llull. Her researc[...] 08 Apr The aim of the quality certification obtained is to ensure the quality of the service provided and to continue with its improvement and extension to future services. The Scientific and Technical Service for the characterization of nano and biomaterials, the Soft Lab, run by the Nanomol Research Unit of the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB, CSIC), and which is part of Unit 6 of the ICTS Nanbiosis, and CIBER-BBN, aims to offer characterization services of micro- and nanostructured soft molecular materials to the entire scientific community that requires them. To this end, the Soft technical service has several laboratories at[...] 28 Feb WHY DO CELEBRATE TODAY THE INTERNATIONAL #RareDiseaseDay? 29 of February is a ‘rare’ date and February, a month with a ‘rare’ number of days, has become a month to raise awareness about rare diseases and their impact on patients’ lives. Since 2008 thousands of events happen every year all around the world and around the last day of February with the aim of improving equity and reducing stigmatization for people who live with more than 6,000 rare diseases. WHAT ARE RARE DISEASES Rare diseases are pathologies or disorders that affect a small part of the population (less than 5 per 10,000 inhabitants) and[...] 04 Feb Nanovesicles, known as quatsomes, have been successfully engineered to encapsulate and deliver microRNAs for the treatment of tumors.These nanovesicles are produced by a simple GMP compliant process, an unavoidable requirement for the clinical use of new drug candidates.The study, published in Small, has been highlighted in the Women in Materials Science issue of Advanced Materials. “The beauty of these quatsomes nanovesicles is that they can be easily engineered for the delivery of a variety of nucleic acids. Importantly, they are stable at room temperature, which avoids problems associated to cold chain requirements”, says Nora Ventosa, Scientific Director of NANBIOSIS U6.[...] 24 Jan Nora Ventosa and Mariana Köber, from NANBIOSIS Unit 6 of CIBER-BBN and ICMAB-CSIC, and Judit Morlà-Folch, from the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, are editors of the Special Issue of MDPI Pharmaceutics. The Special Issue on “Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles for Bioimaging and Theragnostics“ belongs to the “Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology” section and has a deadline for manuscript submissions on 25 July 2022. The guest editors explain the main topic of this Special Edition: “Fluorescence-based techniques play an essential role in the study of biological events in tissues and animals due to their specificity and noninvasive nature. However,[...] 12 Jan A new work by researchers from the CIBER-BBN at the Barcelona Institute of Materials Science ICMAB-CSIC, together with a team from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, presents new nanovesicles capable of crossing biological barriers such as cell membranes, maintaining their sensory capacity, making them attractive probes for intracellular biomarker detection. “The development of probes capable of detecting the biological environment and signaling the presence of a specific target molecule is a challenge with relevance in a variety of biomedical applications, from drug administration to diagnostic tools” says Mariana Köber, one of those responsible of the investigation together with Nora[...] 03 Dec National and international leading researchers met online last November 15 and 16 at the XV CIBER-BBN Annual Congress to discuss the latest advances in bioengineering, biomaterials and nanomedicine research, and promote further collaborations in the field. This year’s CIBER-BBN Annual Conference included three plenary lectures given by internationally recognized experts in the fields of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination, biomedical signal processing for sleep disorders, and regenerative medicine and biosensors. In addition to a selection of internal collaborations, valorization projects and collaboration projects with the CIBER of Oncology, the three programs of the Precision Medicine Infrastructure (IMPaCT) were presented. NANBIOSIS ICTS[...]
Description
Located at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), in Barcelona, and under the coordination of Professor Jaume Veciana and Prof. Nora Ventosa, current directors of NANOMOL Group, which is a research group with wide expertise and recognized excellence in the synthesis, processing and study of molecular and polymeric materials with chemical, electronic, magnetic and biomedical properties. It gathers several laboratories, perfectly equipped, to perform the mission of this facility: the development, characterization, and large-scale production of molecular biomaterials of therapeutic or biomedical interest, with controlled micro-, nano- and supramolecular structure. One example of Key-Enabling-Technology (KET) available in this unit is a simple one-step methodology, DELOS-SUSP, based on the use of compressed fluids (CF), such as CO2, to prepare particulate materials with precise and reproducible structural characteristics at micro-, nano- and supramolecular levels (size, shape, internal structural gradients, supramolecular organization and crystalline purity). This example shows one of the singularities of this unit is that counts with CF–based plants at different scales, from mL to L, which allow process development by QbD and process scale-up.
The NANBIOSIS Unit 6 is also applying for the ISO9001 certification for standard quality control system
U6. Services & RatesServices
Equipments
Active projects
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Fundin: Organism
Call: Funding source
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GA: 720942
SMART FUNCTIONAL GLA-NANOFORMULATION FOR FABRY DISEASE – Smart-4-Fabry
Unión Europea (Comisión Europea)
H2020-NMBP-2016-2017
Coordinator
SAF2017-90810-REDI
Strategic Promotion and coordinated management of Nanbiosis: Pronanbiosis II
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)
Acciones de dinamización «REDES DE EXCELENCIA»
-ICTS 2017Coordinator
Other projects
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Funding Organism
Unit Role
PI15/00272
Design of intelligent nanoconjugates for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer.
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Participant
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014-642196
Integrated self-assembled SWITCHable systems and materials: towards responsive organic electronics - a multi-site innovative training action i-Switch
Unión Europea H2020
Participant
2014 SGR 17
Consolidation Research Group: Molecular Nanociènciai Materials Orgànics (NANOMOL)
Generalitat de Catalunya
Participant
CTQ2013-40480-R
Molecular Bio- and Electro-active materials for the improvement of health and social well-being (Be-Well)
MICINN
Participant
FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN nº 607721
Nanochemistry of molecular materials for 2-photon functional applications. Nano2Fun
Unión Europea
Participant
MAT2013-50036-EXP
Cell Surface Vessel Engineering Using Dynamic Molecular Bioinfecting (DYNAMO)
MINECO
Participant
RTC-2016-4567-1
Nanocapsules containing active ingredients for the topical treatment of dermatological diseases (NANO4DERM)
MINECO
Participant
RTC-2014-2183-S
Application of Quatsomes technology for the development of a new range of perfumed softeners with lower environmental impact
MINECO
Participant
201260E080
Self-assembly, Nanostructuring and Processing of Functional Organic Molecules and their Applications
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Participant
MAT2016-80826-R
Molecular materials and supramolecular organizations for therapy, diagnosis and tissue engineering (MOTHER)
MINECO
Participant
RTC-2014-2207-1
TERARMET: Development of therapies for the treatment of rare congenital metabolic diseases
MINECO
Participant
Publications
2016
News U6
Metal-free contrast agents: novel approaches
Nora Ventosa appointed Research Professor under the Materials Science
ISO 9001:2015 Quality Certification for the Soft Scientific and Technical Service at ICMAB and Unit
Fabry Desease in the Rare Disease Day: A New Hope
Stable nanovesicles for the delivery of microRNA in cancer treatment
Submissions open for Special Issue of MDPI on Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles for Bioimaging and Theragnostics
New fluorescent nanovesicles for intracellular biomarker detection
‘SAFE-N-MEDTECH’ and ‘PHOEHIX’ OITBs in CIBER-BBN and NANBIOSIS annual Conference.
