1st International Workshop on Nanotechnology in Cancer Treatment Salone d’onore del Castello del Valentino Torino ,,Viale Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli 39 November 10th 2014 ORGANIZED BY Gianluca Ciardelli (Politecnico di Torino) Paolo Decuzzi (Houston Methodist) FREE REGISTRATION AT: clara.mattu@polito.it Nanotechnology in Cancer Treatment Torino, Castello del Valentino - 10 Novembre 2014 8.30-9.00 Registration Opening 9.00-9.30 9.30-10.15 Marco Gilli (Rettore - Politecnico di Torino) Marco Mezzalama (Compagnia di San Paolo) Smart Multifunctional hydrogels for cancer treatment Gianluca Ciardelli, Pierluigi Civera (Politecnico di Torino) Paolo Decuzzi (TMHRI/Cornell) Coffee break Session I Clinical, biological and Computational tools Chair Pietro Asinari 10.30-11.00 11.00-11.30 11.30-12.00 12.00-12.30 12.30-13.00 13.00-13.20 Federico Bussolino (Università di Torino) How to interrogate cancers to personalise the therapy Moein Moghimi (KØbenhavns Universitet) Complement and cancer companionship: a dilemma for anti-cancer nanomedicine therapeutics Giovanni Camussi (Università di Torino) Extracellular RNA-carrying nanovesicles as therapeutics in cancer Luigi Preziosi (Politecnico di Torino) Mathematical Models of Cell-ECM Interaction Fabrizio Pirri (Politecnico di Torino/IIT) Optical and mechanical micro devices for tumor biomarkers detection Nadia Decarolis (Nordtest) MP-SPR characterization technique: from molecular interactions to drug delivery Lunch Break Session II Drug Delivery and Theranostics Chair Paolo Decuzzi 14.30-15.00 15.00-15.30 Silvio Aime (Università di Torino) Nanosized systems for innovative MRI theranostic application Vittorio de Franciscis (CNR Napoli) Aptamers as “smart” drugs for cancer treatment Debora Berti (Università di Firenze) 15.30-16.00 16.00-16.30 16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 Nonspecific Interactions of Engineered Nanostructures with Model Cell Membranes: a physicochemical perspective Ipsita Roy (University of Westminster) Natural Biopolymers of bacterial origin and their biomedical applications Paolo Caliceti (Università di Padova) Multi-modular systems for logical delivery of anticancer drugs Jaehong Key (TMHRI/Cornell) Discoidal Polymeric Nanoconstructs for Multimodal PET-MR-Optical Imaging Cocktail