NME19 Program

NME19 is a global event including keynotes, parallel sessions about academic research in Nanomedicine (ENM), translation towards the clinic & trends in disruptive medical technologies (ETPN). Social events will give you lots of opportunities for networking.

NME19 booklet

Download the final booklets of the conference!

FULL VERSION

SHORT VERSION

Detailed schedule

Day 1 – Monday June, 17

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8:00am – 9:00am

Main Hall

Registration

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09:00am – 11:00am

FOR ETPN MEMBERS ONLY

Room to be announced

ETPN Association, General Assembly (part 1)

By the ETPN Bureau & Secretariat

FOR ETPN MEMBERS ONLY
  1. Activity Report 2018.
  2. Votes of the General Assembly :
  • Validation of Accounts 2018
  • Validation of Budget proposal 2019
  • Validation of Membership fees 2020
  • Election of the ETPN Executive Board
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11:00am – 11:30am

Main hall

Coffee break

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition
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11:30am – 1:30Pm

Rooms to be announced

ETPN Working Groups meetings

By the ETPN WG chairpeople

FOR ETPN MEMBERS ONLY
  1. Activity Report 2018.
  2. Votes of the General Assembly :
  • Validation of Accounts 2018
  • Validation of Budget proposal 2019
  • Validation of Membership fees 2020
  • Election of the ETPN Executive Board
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1:30pm – 2:30pm

Main hall

Networking lunch

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition
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2:30pm – 4:30pm

FOR ETPN MEMBERS ONLY

Room to be announced

ETPN Association, General Assembly (part 2)

By the ETPN Bureau & Secretariat

FOR ETPN MEMBERS ONLY
  1. Activity Report 2018.
  2. Votes of the General Assembly :
  • Validation of Accounts 2018
  • Validation of Budget proposal 2019
  • Validation of Membership fees 2020
  • Election of the ETPN Executive Board
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4:30pm – 5:00pm

Main Hall

Coffee break

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition
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5:00pm - 6:00pm

Room to be announced

Plenary: NanoXray : from the idea to the market / Behind the scenes.

By Laurent Lévy, CEO and founder of Nanobiotix

OPEN TO ALL NME19 ATTENDEES
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6:00pm - 6:30pm

MAIN HALL

INL Tour.

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6:30pm - 9:00pm

Main Hall

Welcome reception.

Sponsor: Nanobiotix

 

OPEN TO ALL NME19 ATTENDEES

Day 2 – Tuesday, June 18

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8:00am – 9:00am

Main Hall

Registration

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9:00am - 9:30am

Main Hall

KEYNOTE: Nanomedicine against and infectious diseases

By Jennifer Grossman, Senior Scientific Program Manager at NIH/NIAID
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9:30am - 10:00am

Main Hall

NME19 official opening

in the presence of Mr. Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science of Portugal, and Mr. Ricardo Rio, Mayor of the city of Braga

ETPN event

ENM scientific conferences

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10:00am - 11:00am

Nanomedicine translation to market

Moderator: Rui Sousa, TecMinho / CLICK FOR DETAILS

 

  • Rui Sousa (TecMinho) “The HealthTech Translation Advisory Board (TAB)”
  • Simon Baconnier (CEA) “EUNCL review after 4 years: successes and lessons learned”
  • Iraïda Loinaz (CIDETEC) “NanoPilot:  Pilot Plant for the GMP Production of Polymer-based Nanopharmaceuticals”

Smart therapeutic nanosystems (PART 1)

Chair: María de la Fuente, Health Research Institute in Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Maria de la Fuente (ONCOMET/IDIS) “Nanomedicine strategies to improve outcomes in metastatic cancer”
  • Anabel Sorolla (Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research – The University of Western Australia) “Development of a targeted therapy for triple negative breast cancers by using docetaxel-loaded polymeric nanoparticles, iPeps and RGD peptides”
  • Marcos Garcia-Fuentes (CiMUS / Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) “Advanced Delivery Systems for the Suppression of Cancer Stem Cells”
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11:00am – 11:30am

Main hall

Coffee break

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition
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11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Clinical nanomedicine applications

Moderator : Alexandre Ceccaldi (ETPN) / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Lorena Diéguez (RUBYnanomed / INL) “Non-invasive monitoring of cancer
  • Matthieu Germain (Curadigm) “Curadigm, a platform shifting therapeutic delivery to elevate treatment outcomes for every patient”
  • Eric Mayes (EndoMag) “Taking a nanoparticle medical product to the international market”
  • Panel discussion “Mission Cancer In Horizon Europe : what Nanomedicine can bring?”
Moderator : Alexandre Ceccaldi (ETPN) / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Lorena Diéguez (RUBYnanomed / INL) “Non-invasive monitoring of cancer
  • Matthieu Germain (Curadigm) “Curadigm, a platform shifting therapeutic delivery to elevate treatment outcomes for every patient”
  • Eric Mayes (EndoMag) “Taking a nanoparticle medical product to the international market”
  • Panel discussion “Mission Cancer In Horizon Europe : what Nanomedicine can bring?”

Smart therapeutic nanosystems (PART 2)

Chair: María de la Fuente, Health Research Institute in Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) (click for details)
  • Chantal Pichon (Center for Molecular Biophysics UPR4301 CNRS – France) “Preclinical evaluations of tri-mannose bearing lipid polymer shell mRNA nanoparticles that combine strong antitumor T-cell immunity with improved inflammatory safety”
  • Fernando Torres Andón (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela – Spain) “Nanomedicines for the Therapeutic Manipulation of Tumour Associated Macrophages.”
  • Ariella Oppenheim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) “The homeostatic activities of empty SV40 nanoparticles (SV40 NPs)”
  • Beatriz Pelaz (CiQUS/ Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) “Sub-micrometric capsules for drug delivery”
  • Fabiana Quaglia (Department of Pharmacy, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy) “Antiangiogenic biodegradable nanoparticles enhancing  anticancer activity of chemotherapeutics”
  • Iraida Loinaz (CIDETEC) “Inhalable nano-antibiotics to treat lung antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections”
  • Margherita Morpurgo (University of Padova, Dept. of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences) “Anti-EGFR targeted drug loaded polyavidin nanoparticles bypass drug resistance in a Triple Negative Breast Cancer model and are superior to their anti-EGFR antibody drug conjugate analogue”
  • Monica L Fanarraga (UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA-IDIVAL) “Carbon nanotubes as Intelligent Systems for Cancer Therapeutic Nano-Delivery”
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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Main hall

Networking Lunch

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition
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2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Disruptive medicine

Moderator: Alexandre Ceccaldi (ETPN / NOBEL Project) /CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Kathleen Spring (Bioanalytik Münster) “The Continuum of Care: why emerging medical technologies revolutionize healthcare”
  • Paul Galvin (Tyndall Institute) “Simulation and virtual reality enabling better safer healthcare”
  • Priscilla Pagnacco (Pixium Vision) “PRIMA a photovoltaic sub-retinal microchip retinal implant and a brain-machine interface for dry AMD (Age Macular Degeneration)”
  • Simon Baconnier (CEA) “The Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Projet by CLINATEC”

Nanostructured theranostic systems

Chair: Graeme Stasiuk, University of Hull “Development of PDT based theranostics” / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Graeme Stasiuk (University of Hull) “Development of PDT based theranostics”
  • Pablo Taboada (University of Santiago de Compostela) “Hybrid nanoplatforms, stimuli-responsive, cancer theranosis”
  • Rita S. Santos (LEPABE, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto) “DelNAM – fighting the crisis of bacterial resistance to antibiotics”
  • Ida Kokalari (Department of Chemistry, University of Torino, Italy) “Glucose-derived carbon nanoparticles are promising safe and efficient agents for the NIR-induced phototherpy of tumours”
  • Nuria Lafuente-Gómez (IMDEA Nanociencia) “Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles: a versatile platform for cancer diagnosis and treatment”
  • Ling Peng (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS) “Dendrimer nanotechnology for cancer therapy”
  • Salvatore Sortino (University of Catania) “A Three-Colour Fluorescent Supramolecular Nanoassembly of Phototherapeutics Activatable by Two-Photon Excitation with Near Infrared Light”
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4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Main hall

Coffee break

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition
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5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Pitch me up session!

Manufacturing & Characterization / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Regina Bleul (Fraunhofer) “IMM Modular manufacturing platform for the reproducible continuous synthesis of versatile nanomaterials for nanomedical applications”
  • Nikolas N. Daskalakis (National Formulation Centre, Centre for Process Innovation) Pilot line development for the scale-up of nanopharmaceuticals
  • José Manuel Martínez Costas (CiQUS – University of Santiago de Compostela) “IC-Tagging methodology: cost-effective production of proteins for biomedicine & vaccines”
  • Fanny Caputo (CEA Leti) “Measuring particle size distribution of nanoparticle enabled medicinal products, the joint view of EUNCL and NCI-NCL. A step by step approach combining orthogonal measurements with increasing complexity”
  • Florian Meier (Postnova Analytics GmbH) “Multi-Detector Field-Flow Fractionation – A powerful analytical tool in the field of Nanomedicine”
  • SPONSOR TALK Camille Roesch (IZON Science) “TRPS: High precision characterization for nano and micro particles”

Organ-on-a-Chip and Biomimetic systems

Chair: Elena Martínez, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Elena Martínez (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia ) “Engineering biomimetic 3D models of intestinal epithelium”
  • Helen Nneka Onyema,  (Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM) “From human induced pluripotent stem cell to barrier-building endothelial cells – Using a realistic model of the blood-brain barrier for the identification of essential nanoparticle characteristics as drug delivery systems”
  • Maria Aymerich (Photonics4Life Research Group, USC) “Fabrication of microfluidic chips and preclinical devices by laser technologies”
  • Vera Faustino (MEtRICs, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Minho,) “A microfluidic system to sort blood cells and assess their deformability in healthy blood and in diabetes mellitus type II”
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7:00pm - 00:00Am

Meeting in the Main Hall

Visit of the old town & gala evening

Sponsor: Endomag

Details to be announced

Day 3 – Wednesday, June 19

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8:00am – 9:00am

Main Hall

Registration

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09:00 am - 10:00 am

Main Auditorium

Keynotes: Prof. Maria José Alonso & Olivier T. Guénat

CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • María José Alonso (Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Santiago de Compostela, CIMUS Research Institute) “Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocapsules for the Targeted Delivery on Oncological drugs- Learning from Euronanomed”
  • Olivier T. Guenat (AlveoliX AG & Medical Faculty, University of Bern) “Mimicking the lung parenchyma with organs-on-chip technologies”
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10:00 am - 11:00 am

MAIN auditorium

Brokerage session

H2020 Funding opportunities & preparation of Horizon Europe / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Heico Frima (European Commision) “Horizon Europe status and planning: what’s the possible situation of Nanomedicine in it?”
  • Maria Nieves Gonzalez Lopez (NCP Spain NMBP H2020) “WP2020: upcoming calls regarding Nanomedicine”
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11:00am – 11:30am

Main hall

Coffee break

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition

ETPN event

ENM scientific conferences

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11:30 am - 1:30 Pm

European Projects in  Nanomedicine

Success stories from H2020 & EuroNanoMed / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Eusebio Gainza (Biopraxis) SAFE-N-MEDTECH
  • Adriele Prina-Mello (Trinity College Dublin) REFINE
  • Iraida Loinaz (CIDETEC) TBMED
  • Daniele Catalucci (National Research Council), IRGB Cupido
  • Paula Marques (Universidade de Aveiro) NeuroStimSpinal
  • Marie de Fuente Freire (ONCOMET – IDIS) PANIPAC & METASTARG
  • Bruno Sarmento (INEB) RESTORE
  • Daniel Ortega (IMDEA Nanociencia) Radiomag COST Action

Nanobiosensing for personalized medicine

Chair: María Tomás Gamasa - University of Santiago de Compostela / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • María Tomás Gamasa (University of Santiago de Compostela)  “Bioorthogonal transition metal catalysts for cellular intervention”
  • Weng Kung Peng (INL) “Molecular Phenotyping: Towards the Next Generation of Sequencing”
  • Diana Vasquez (International Park of Creativity) “Biophotonic and DNA sensor interaction for early detection of Alzheimer’s in blood”
  • Joanna Jankowska-Śliwińska (Łukasiewicz Research Network- Institute of Electron Technology) “A Field-Effect Transistor-based device for non-invasive glucose sensing in saliva”
  • Alice Gualerzi (IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi) “Nanobiophotonics application for the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases in accessible biofluids”
  • Sara Abalde-Cela (INL) “Surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy meets microfluidics: towards sensitive, automated and high-throughput integrated tools for diagnosis”
  • Nuno Santos (Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa) “AFM as a nanotool to evaluate cardiovascular risk in heart failure and hypertension patients”
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1:30pm – 2:30Pm

Main hall

Networking Lunch

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition
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2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Pitch me up session #2: Nanotherapeutics & co.

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  • Paula A López Martínez (CiTIUS) “Ex-vivo testing of a self-powered micro energy harvester for biomedical applications”
  • Su M. Metcalfe (LIFNanoRx – University of Cambridge NanoBioMedicine) “PLGA-nanoparticles containing LIF cross the Blood-Brain Barrier and reverse paralysis in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE)”
  • Ruth Schmid (SINTEF AS) “CancerTarg Solutions: Nanotechnologies for hard-to-treat cancers”
  • Simó Schwartz (CIBBIM-Nanomedicine) “Preclinical development of magnetic nanoparticles for the treatment of pancreatic cancer”
  • M. Cristina Martins (INEB/i3S) “NanoPyl: smart and “friendly” antibiotic-free lipid nanoparticles for gastric infection management”
  • Arieh Eden (Carmel Lady Medical Center) “Empty capsids of SV40: naturally occurring nanoparticles with versatile therapeutic potential”

Cell therapies and regenerative medicine

Chair: Miguel Oliveira, Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics of the University of Minho / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Miguel Oliveira (Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics of the University of Minho)  “Dendrimer Nanoparticles for intracellular delivery and tissue engineering application”
  • Giuseppina Sandri (University of Pavia) “Glycosaminoglycans based scaffolds for wound healing”
  • Eva Cernadas (CiTIUS – Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC) “Computer vision and machine learning change the way in which biomedical researchers analyse microscopic images”
  • Graziella Pellegrini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) “Planning nanoengineered organ implantable, biocompatible as functional corneal substitute”
  • Gabriela S. Lorite (Microelectronics Research Unit, University of Oulu) “Carbon nanotubes boost cell alignment”
  • Awais Farid (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) “New antimicrobial coating system for long term caring facilities (LTCFs) for elderly in Hong Kong”
  • Marcos Garcia-Fuentes (CiMUS research center and Department of Pharmacology USC) “Hydrogels activated with mRNA for priming cell differentiation

 

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4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Main hall

Coffee break

Poster Exhibition & Industry exhibition
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5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Advanced medical imaging

Chair: Prof. Uwe Himmelreich, KU Leuven / CLICK FOR DETAILS
  • Uwe Himmelreich (KU Leuven)  “Imaging and Nanomedicine: Promises and pitfalls”
  • Juan Gallo (INL) “Manganese-based MRI contrast agents for cancer imaging”
  • Natalia Herrero-Alvarez (Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE), “MRI Study of the Influence of Surface Coating Aging on the In Vivo Biodistribution of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles”
  • Carlo Morasso (ICS Maugeri IRCCS) “Raman imaging as a tool for the chemical and spatial characterization of breast cancer microcalcifications to improve lesion assessment”
  • Mariana Carvalho (INL) “Molecular contrast–based OCT for Cardio-intravascular imaging”
  • James Simon (Cenya Imaging B.V.) “Clinically-applicable nanoparticle platform for cell tracking and other in vivo imaging applications”

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