Nanotechnology and Smart Materials for Medical Applications: from Medical Diagnostics to Therapy

NEW TOOLS FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS Frank F. Bier Benefits of nanotechnology for diagnostics and cell handling Pag. 1 Gianfranco Gilardi Construction of a liver-chip for drug metabolism: amperometric sensing with human cytochrome p450s Pag. 3 J Malcolm Wilkinson Micro and Nanotechnology for Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and Diagnosis Pag. 5 Andrew Campitelli Polymer based MNT Solutions for Future Medical Diagnostic Platforms Pag. 8 M.E. Eccleston et al. Bioorganic nanoprobes for non invasive tumour imaging NANOSCALE PHARMACEUTICALS and THERAPIES Pag. 10 Fabio Beltram Biology one molecule at a time: nanoscienza techniques for molecular medicine Pag. 13 Ichiro Nakatomi Drug Targeting as Nanobio Technology Pag. 14 Martin Monzel Nanotechnological based material and product development for medical applications Pag. 16 Holger Becker, Dr. Claudia Gärtner Innovative Medical Devices Challenges and Opportunities Pag. 17 Mauro Ferrari The hallmarks of cancer nanotechnology Pag. 20 R. Carbone et al. Development of Retroviral Microarrays for new drug target identification and gene therapy application Pag. 21 Mauro Magnani et al. Cell based drug delivery and targeting system Pag. 23 IMPLANTS PROSTHESES and TISSUE ENGINEERING Harry Heinzelmann Top-down and bottom up approaches for functional surface structuring Pag. 25 Nikolaj Gadegaard et al. Nano textured surfaces – applications in cell engineering Pag. 26 Gianluca Ciardelli and Paolo Giusti Engineered approaches for the realisation of smart scaffolds for tissue repair Pag. 29 B. G. Cousins et al. Nanoparticulate Silica Coatings for Biomaterials and their Effects on the Cellular Response Pag. 32 D. Pasqui et al. Cell response to micro/nano-patterned polysaccharides surfaces on different substrates (PET, glass, carbofilm ) Pag. 34 Michael Ball et al. Osteoblast response to chemically modified and nano-patterned polymer substrates Pag.37