Best presentation at ECHOCONTRAST 2018: our young researchers awarded another international recognition

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Dr. Yosra Toumia, former PhD student and now postdoc with Professor Paradossi in the Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules group, has been awarded the first prize for her within the framework of ECHOCONTRAST 2018, an international conference on contrast agents held recently in Rotterdam. Yosra’c competitors came from internationally recognized excellent institutions such as Oxford University, Imperial College, Virginia University School of Medicine, NTNU Norway, Dept of Medicine Cincinnati University.

Bravo to Yorsra and the whole group!

The department makes the cover!

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The  Green Chemistry dedicates the fourth cover to the paper published by the Polyphenols Chemistry & Material Science directed by Professor Claudia Crestini “Synthesis of nano- and microstructures from proanthocyanidins, tannic acid and epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate for active delivery”  di E. Bartzoka, H. Lange, P. Mosesso, C. Crestini,  Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 5074.

This success follows the one achieved  last year whenACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering dedicated the front cover to a series of papers coming from the same group (D. S. Argyropoulos, C. Crestini: A Perspective on Lignin Refining, Functionalization, and Utilization. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2016, 4 (10), 5089–5089; H. Lange, P. Schiffels, M. Sette, O. Sevastyanova, C. Crestini: Fractional Precipitation of Wheat Straw Organosolv Lignin –Macroscopic Properties and Structural Insights. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2016, 4 (10), 5136–5151; H. Lange, F. Rulli, C. Crestini: Gel Permeation Chromatography in Determining Molecular Weights of Lignins: Critical Aspects Revisited for Improved Utility in the Development of Novel Materials. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2016, 4 (10),  5194–5203).

Congratulations Claudia and coworkers!

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Winning strike for Professor Paradossi’s group

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The team of Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules headed by Prof. Gaio Paradossi is partner of the new European project AMPHORA.

This is the fourth EU project awarded to the group of our Department, the first in Horizon 2020.
Within the project AMPHORA microbubbles, devices fabricated and engineered by the Tor Vergata group, will be used to dose ionizing radiations in radiotherapy. Partners of the project are: KU Leuven (BE), Erasmus University, Rotterdam (NL), DoseVue (BE).
AMPHORA represents another important opportunity to further develop the international relationships of our Department.

Contratulations to Gaio and all his group!

New successes for Tor Vergata’s Analytical Chemistry

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Dr Alessandro Porchetta, Analytical Chemistry Researcher, has been granted the  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) project Nano-OligoMed.

In addition to the Tor Vergata group, led by Alessando, the 4 years program will see the involvment of 5 international partners (University of Strasbourg, University of Parma, Canada McGill University, Cuba Universidad de la Habana, University of California, San Diego) and a european SME europea (Nanomol Technologies, Barcellona).

Aim of the project is the development of new hybrid degradable nanomaterials based on silica and nucleic acids to be used in the field of drug delivery. Through project Nano-OligoMed il will be possible to support travel expenses of our PhD students and young researchers and foster new international collaborations.

 Moreover, Dr Alessia Amodio, post-doc in Professor Francesco Ricci’s group, has been selected as one of the ten finalists of the 2016 Primo Levi award.

The award is assigned to a young researcher for an innovative study  of wide interest. The study that lead to Alessia’s selection had been published on The Journal of the American Chemical Society (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.6b07676). In the paper she has demonstrated the possibility of controlling the isothermal formation of supramolcular DNA structures by varying pH conditions.

All the finalist prepared a short video on their activity. You can see Alessia’s video is at https://www.facebook.com/SCIgiovani/videos/1950200325192273

Congratulations to  Alessandro and Alessia for their achievements!

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