Injectable Hybrid Hydrogels, with Cell-Responsive Degradation, for Tumor Resection
I am proud to announce that my paper "Injectable Hybrid Hydrogels, with Cell-Responsive Degradation, for Tumor Resection" has just been published by the journal ACS Applied Biomaterial, a journal of the American Chemical Society family. In this paper - the result of three years of hard work and of the…
Winner of the Francesco Cardone – Anassilaos Young Prize
I am proud to say that I am one of the winners of the Anassilaos Young-Research Award (Premio Anassilaos Giovani - Ricerca). Annasilaos is a cultural association devoted to the promotion of scientific and humanistic culture in the city of Reggio Calabria, where I was born. From 1988 the association…
Started collaborating with the Italian Counsil of Chemists
Today I started my collaboration with the official Journal of the Italian Counsil of Chemists, "Il Chimico Italiano". My article "Intelligent biomaterials: from the hydrogel a new challenge for chemistry" was published on the issue of September 2017 and is available online for free.
BEST Business Plan Award – B.E.S.T. Innovation Course 2017
What happens when you put in the same room doctors, chemists and engineers? Well, you need to attend to the Business Engineering and Surgical Technologies Innovation Course (B.E.S.T. Innovation Course) organized each year by the Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU Strasbourg), and that this year was held from the 21 to the 25 of…
Oral presentation and session chair at the 5th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials
I just returned home from an incredible experience at the that was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 6 to the 10 of March 2017. I am very proud that my abstract "Injectable hydrogels for innovative clinical applications" has been selected for an oral presentation and that I was also…
A meeting in Amsterdam
Last week I came back from Stockholm, where I spent three weeks in the group of Prof. Olof Ramstrom to learn the fundamentals of microbiology and how to work with bacteria. Tomorrow, Monday 12/12/2016, I will go to Wageningen, Netherlands, where I will stay until Saturday for a meeting of…