Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Her research involves optical imaging materials and techniques, nanoparticle synthesis, and superparamagnetism. He is engaged in research into bionanomaterials synthesis and characterization, biomagnetic properties and cell-nanoparticle interactions.

Part I: Iron oxide nanoparticles 1. Introduction: Metal oxides in biomedical applications 2. Synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles aimed for biomedical applications (different methods with advantages and disadvantages) 3. Stabilization of the nano-systems (different methods will be explained and discussed) 4. Methods of physico-chemical characterizations (+ examples for each method) 5. Methods of metal nanopacticles functionalizing for biomedical applications

Part II: Biomedical applications 6. MR molecular imaging (from chemistry to cell labeling, inflammation, apoptosis, etc. (e.g., importance of the relaxometric efficiency) 7. Multimodal imaging (MRI/PET, MRI/optical imaging, etc.) 8. Hyperthermia (importance of the magnetic core size, of the coating, etc.) 9. Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) (importance of the homogeneity in size, etc.) 10. Cellular labeling (importance of the coating, of the charge surface, etc) 11. Therapies and treatments (drug delivery, cancer therapy) 12. Protein corona: The challenge at the nanobiointerfaces 13. Nanocytotoxicity