Challenges in Health and biomedicine


22 Sept.			09:00 - 10:30



HEALTH & NANOMEDICINE
TACKLING GLOBAL CHALLENGES WITH ELECTROSPINNING
TT.IX - Technical Multi-Track with Parallel SYMPOSIA
Challenges in Health and biomedicine
Co-organized with CNR -IIA Chairs: Antonella MACAGNANO - CV & Fabrizio DE CESARE - CV, CNR - IIA
At first, applications of electrospinning dedicated to preserve human health resulted in air filtration and personal protection purposes. Subsequently, bioengineering, and biomedical engineering research communities, inspired by the similarity of electrospun nanofibers to fibrous extracellular matrices of natural human tissues, focused their attention to new potential applications in medicine and healthcare. Thus, electrospun nanofibrous products have become excellent devices for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, such as for drug delivery with controlled release, wound dressing, biosensors, diagnostics, and cosmetics. The enormous availability of polymers and composite materials usable in the electrospun process, facilitates the chance of obtaining biocompatible and biologically active nanofibrous devices. The workshop session aims to promote the versatility of this technology and the advances achieved in this regard by CNR research (National and International Actions), encouraged by the birth in Italy of enterprises dedicated both to the development of customized equipment and functional materials for challenging applications in health and biomedicine.
The symposium is part of the Workshop WS.V
TT.IX.A.1 WS.V.1.1	Antonella MACAGNANO - CV CNR-IIA The contribution of CNR (Italy) in developing advanced technological solutions for a variety of applications
TT.IX.A.2 WS.V.1.2	Eyal ZUSSMANN - CV TECHNION- Haifa, ISRAEL Electrospinning: a bridge between nanotechnologies and bioinspired applications
TT.IX.A.3 WS.V.1.3	Alessio VARESANO - CV STIIMA-CNR Keratin-based nanofibres for biomedical applications and electrospun filter media
TT.IX.A.4 WS.V.1.4	Irene BONADIES - CV IPCG-CNR The use of natural and bio- based polymers in electrospinning
TT.IX.A.5 WS.V.1.5	Maria Letizia FOCARETE - CV SpinBOW S.r.l. & University of Bologna University-Industry cooperation. Functional elctrospun polymeric nanofibers: from nanohybrid to bioactive materials