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The Nanomedicine Lab 2.0 Mission is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge in the field of nanomedicine by convergence of nanotechnology, bioengineering, pharmacology, neuroscience, cell biology, omics and their translation to advanced, clinically relevant and safe therapeutics and diagnostics

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RESEARCH TEAMS

The NanoOmics Team aims to harness the interactions of nanomaterials with blood components
The NanoInflammation Team studies how nanomaterials may cause inflammation or be used to modulate inflammation and control disease
The NanoCell Biology Team unveils interactions of nanomaterials with living cells and their structural compartments
The NanoNeuro Team studies the use of graphene-based neural interface technologies in the neurophysiology of brain disorders
The NanoTherapeutics Team exploits the unique properties of nanoparticles to develop clinically translatable advanced medicines
The Nanomedicine@ICN2 Team designs, fabricates and characterizes advanced nanomaterials at biological grade for medical use

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Nanotheranostics, 2022, in press

Mild hyperthermia accelerates doxorubicin clearance from tumour-extravasated temperature-sensitive liposomes

Wafa' T. Al-Jamal* and Kostas Kostarelos

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Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, 1-9

Full bandwidth electrophysiology of seizures and epileptiform activity enabled by flexible graphene micro-transistor depth neural probes

Andrea Bonaccini Calia, Eduard Masvidal-Codina, Trevor Smith, Nathan Schäfer, Daman Rathore, Elisa Rodríguez-Lucas, Xavi Illa, Jose De la Cruz, Elena Del Corro, Elisabet Prats-Alfonso, Damià Viana, Jessica Bousquet, Clement Hébert, Javier Martínez-Aguilar, Justin R. Sperling, Matthew Drummond, Arnab Halder, Abbie Dodd, Katharine Barr, Sinead Savage, Jordina Fornell, Jordi Sort, Christoph Guger, Rosa Villa, Kostas Kostarelos, Rob Wykes*, Anton Guimerà-Brunet*, and Jose Garrido*

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Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, 16 (9), 1019-1029

Viscoelastic surface electrode arrays to interface with viscoelastic tissues

Christina Tringides, Nicolas Vachicouras, Irene de Lázaro, Hua Wang, Alix Trouillet, Bo Ri Seo, Alberto Elosegui-Artola, Florian Fallegger, Yuyoung Shin, Cinzia Casiraghi, Kostas Kostarelos, Stéphanie Lacour, David Mooney*

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Journal of Controlled Release, 2021, 338, 330-340

The impact of graphene oxide sheet lateral dimensions on their pharmacokinetic and tissue distribution profiles in mice

Dhifaf Jasim, Leon Newman, Artur Filipe Rodrigues, Isabella A. Vacchi, Matteo A. Lucherelli, Neus Lozano, Cécilia Ménard-Moyon, Alberto Bianco, Kostas Kostarelos*

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Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, 16 (8), 843–850

Reasons for success and lessons learnt from nanoscale vaccines against COVID-19

Thomas Kisby, Açelya Yilmazer & Kostas Kostarelos*

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2D Materials, 2021, 8 035044

A method for the measurement of mass and number of graphene oxide sheets in suspension based on non-spherical approximations

Livia Crica, Thomas Dennison, Elise Guerini, Kostas Kostarelos*

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PLoS One, 2021, 16(5): e0251054

Transient reprogramming of postnatal cardiomyocytes to a dedifferentiated state

Thomas Kisby, Irene de Lázaro, Maria Stylianou, Giulio Cossu, Kostas Kostarelos*

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Nanoscale Advances, 2021,3, 4166-4185

Dynamic interactions and intracellular fate of label-free, thin graphene oxide sheets within mammalian cells: role of lateral sheet size

Yingxian Chen, Jack Rivers-Auty, Livia Crică, Katie Barr, Vinicio Rosano, Adrian Arranz, Thomas Loret, Cyrill Bussy, David Spiller, Kostas Kostarelos*, Sandra Vranic*

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Small, 2021, 17 (25), 2101483

Graphene oxide nanosheets interact and interfere with SARS-CoV-2 surface proteins and cell receptors to inhibit infectivity

Mehmet Altay Unal, Fatma Bayrakdar, Hasan Nazir, Omur Besbinar, Cansu Gurcan, Neus Lozano, Luis Arellano, Süleyman Yalcin, Oguzhan Panatli, Dogantan Celik, Damla Alkaya, Aydan Agan, Laura Fusco, Serap Yildiz, Lucia Delogu, Kamil Akcali, Kostas Kostarelos,* Açelya Yilmazer*

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NeuroImage, 2021, 118243

Adiabatic dynamic causal modelling

Amirhossein Jafarian, Peter Zeidman, Rob C Wykes, Matthew Walker, Karl J Friston

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RECENT NEWSVIEW ALL

18/01/2022

EUON’s guest corner – Nanopinion is published

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01/12/2021

We moved forward….across disciplines and countries….Nanomedicine Lab 2.0 is here!

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26/11/2021

The first in-person Nano in Medicine & Health seminar in almost two years

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22/10/2021

Miguel Arellano wins prize for PhD thesis defended in 2019

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18/09/2021

EU H2020 Graphene Flagship project, CORE 3, WP4 Meeting

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12/09/2021

Field work at FSC Millport marine station

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03/09/2021

Welcome Nerea to Nanomedicine@ICN2!

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29/06/2021

Miguel has been awarded the Young Researcher Award

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10/05/2021

EFSA Scientific Colloquium N°25: a coordinated approach to assess human health risks of micro- and nanoplastics in food | On-line, Thursday 6 and Friday 7 May 2021

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