Bob Langer 70th birthday celebration
September 7-9, 2018- Cambridge, MA Bob Langer is the most cited engineer in history and one of the ten most cited individuals in history. He directs the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world. During [...]
EraChair project was present in Praça Vida +
From 20 to 22nd of July, the EraChair project, represented by Luís Estronca, was present in Praça Vida+. Praça Vida+ was an event organized by the University of Coimbra and Instituto Pedro Nunes under the [...]
Cardiosvascular System and exercise
Luís Monteiro and Lino Ferreira wrote a short article about the cardiovascular system and exercise. The article was published in Diário de Coimbra and resulted from the colaboration between CNC, European network FOIE GRAS, the [...]
Investing in young researchers, shaping Europe’s future
A two day event, held in Strasbourg, was organized by the ERC and the European Parliament's Science and Technologies Option Assessment Committee (STOA) and counted with the presence of several ERC grantees and members of the [...]
Workshop on Ageing: Models and Therapies
Our group is organizing a workshop on Ageing on June 27th at FMUC. Local: Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra, Sub-Unidade 1, Pólo III Data: 27-06-2018 Program: 14:15- 14:30 Opening session Duarte Nuno [...]
New work published in ACS Nano
"Modulation of Angiogenic Activity by Light-Activatable miRNA-Loaded Nanocarriers" The nanocarriers are composed by a gold nanorod core for sequential delivery of two different miRNAs with near-infrared light stimuli with different laser powers. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.7b07538