Summer School: Biocompatibility of nanoparticle Warsaw, July 3-6, 2011
Summer School Organizers
International Organizing Committee
Stanislaw Blazewicz – Chair of Organizing Committee (AGH-UST, POLAND)
Jan M. Wojcicki - (The International Centre of Biocybernetics (ICB), POLAND)
Jimi Adu – (University of Brighton, UK)
Mohammad S. Alavijeh – (Pharmidex, UK)
The Summer School will be a forum for all those involved in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology with particular emphasis on biocompatibility of nanoparticles. Since the year 2000, there has been an approximate doubling each year of articles related to nanoparticles for use in biomedical and technical applications. In biological systems, they have been used as drug delivery vehicles, targeted cancer therapies, tissue scaffolds, biosensor, diagnostics, gene therapy and regenerative medicine. Opinions on biocompatibility of nanomaterials and their behavior in living system are still ambiguous. Scientists explain that behavior of nanoparticles may be attributed to various factors, for instance, concentration, reactivity, type of functionalization, duration of exposure, methods of exposure, catalysts impurity and agglomeration.
For more details see website: http://bionano.cba.pl/