18.July.2024
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR1 – Stefan Jackson (UCAM) at the Polypure with fellow ESR3 Zuzanna Samol and colleagues.
03.June.2024
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR5- Saniya Salathia (UCAM) is completing her secondment at the University of Leeds with Nikita Gamper and fellow ESR6 Sofia Figoli.
04.June.2024
KCL School of Neuroscience PhD Symposium 2024
ESR13- Francesca Picco (KCL) presented at the KCL School of Neuroscience PhD Symposium and won the prize for the best talk of the Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre!
13.May.2024
Congratulations to ESR6 – Sofia Figoli for her presentation at the RECI Congress.
ESR6- Sofia Figoli (LEEDS) presented her results at the RECI Congress in held Granada in May 2024. Well Done!!!
13.May.2024
Congratulations to ESR9 – Angela Lamberti for her presentation at the RECI Congress.
ESR9- Angela Lamberti (UMH) presented her results at the RECI Congress in held Granada in May 2024. Well Done!!!
17.April.2024
FameLab – Talking Science
ESR1- Stefan Jackson (UCAM) entered a 3-minute speech contest where he won best speaker award by people’s choice onf his talks on “pain – a necessary evil” during the perliminary round and “Chronic neuropatic pain treatment” in the final round!
02.April.2024
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR7- Nicholas Bossons (CHEM) is completing his three-months secondment at Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche in the lab of Antonio Ferrer-Montiel.
10.February.2024
Congratulations to ESR9 – Angela Lamberti for her presentation at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting.
ESR9- Angela Lamberti (UMH) presented her results in Philidelphia (USA) at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in February. Well Done!!!
02.February.2024
Congratulations to ESR9 – Angela Lamberti for her presentation at the Third Annual International Congress of Doctoral Students meeting.
ESR9- Angela Lamberti presented her results online at the Third Annual International Congress of Doctorial Students (CAIED) the on the 2-3rd of February 2024. Well Done!!!
01.Feburary.2024
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR8- Marco Bertolini (EDIN) completed his two-months secondment at King’s College London in the laboratory of Marzia Malcongio.
08.January.2024
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR10- Georgia Goutsiou (UPO) completed her three-months secondment at Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche in the lab of Antonio Ferrer-Montiel.
07.January.2024
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR9- Angela Lamberti (UMH) completed her three-months secondment at Polypure with Erik Agner.
16-17.May.2024
PIANO 3rd Annual Meeting and Final Conference
We will be holding our 3rd Annual Meeting and Final PIANO Conference in Elche (Spain) this year. Attend in person or online and register using this link: https://forms.gle/kGqhevzmRLub1ZUc7
11.November.2023
Congratulations to ESR13 – Francesca Picco for her presentation at SfN.
ESR13- Francesca Picco presented her results during SfN in Washington D.C on 11-15th November 2023 March 2023. Well Done!!!
10.11.2023
𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 by ESR board
The 5th PIANO webinar will be held on 10.11.2023 at 4 pm (CET)
Title: Investigating multicomponent reactions to access soft and hard TRPV1/CB modulators for inflammation and pain treatment.
Speaker: Dr Rita Maria Concetta Di Martino – PostDoc Researcher at University of Eastern Piedmont, in Novara (Italy).
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09.11.2023
Training Event #4 consisted of three scientific courses (SC)
– SC6: Chronic Pain “Omics” and Target Identification. In
– SC7: Computational Modelling of Nociceptive Signaling – Technology Teaching
– SC8: New Paradigms for Pain Resolution
18.09.2023
𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 by ESR board
The 4th PIANO webinar will be held on 18.09.2023 at 3 pm (CET)
Title: Injectable thermosensitive hydrogel for local and controlled delivery of siRNA polyplexes
Speaker: Critina Casadidio – PostDoc Research at Unviersity of Camerino (Italy)
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15.06.2023
𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 by ESR board
The 3rd PIANO webinar will be held on 28.07.2023 at 3 pm (CET)
Title: Exosome-mediated crosstalk between neurons and glia in dorsal root ganglia
Speaker: Vicenzo Prato – PostDoc Research at Unviersity of Leeds (UK)
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15.06.2023
𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 by ESR board
The 2nd PIANO webinar will be held on 30.06.2023 at 11 am (CET).
Title: Gender Inequality: Can I really make a difference?
Speaker: Rebecca Casterton – PostDoc Research at KCL & Founder and Advisor of Women of the Whol
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07.06.2023
HOW BIG IS SMALL?
PIANO ESRs will launch soon a bi-weekly theme-based nanotechnology newsletter!!!!
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11.05.2023
EVENT POSTPONED!
The 1st PIANO webinar is postponed to 26.05.2023 at 3pm (CET).
Join the webinar on MS Teams
Link: MS team – PIANO webinar
19.04.2023
𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄
Two new articles published by our consortium
Zeboudj L, Sideris-Lampretsas G, Silva R, Al-Mudaris A, Picco F, Fox S, Chambers D, Malcangio M. Silencing miR-21-5p in sensory neurons reverses neuropathic allodynia via activation of TGFB-related pathway in macrophages. J Clin Invest. 2023. Article link
Salathia S, Gigliobianco MR, Casadidio C, Di Martino P, Censi R. Hyaluronic Acid-Based Nanosystems for CD44 Mediated Anti- Inflammatory and Antinociceptive Activity Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24(8), 7286; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24087286. Article Link
12.04.2023
𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 by ESR board
The 1st PIANO webinar will be held on 12.05.2023 at 3pm (CET).
Title: 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐑-𝟐𝟏-𝟓𝐏 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐆𝐅𝐛-𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬
Speaker: Lynda Zeboudj – PostDoc Research Associate at KCL
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Link: MS team – PIANO webinar
05.April.2023
𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄!
ESR1- Stefan Jackson will be one of the speaker of the upcoming seminar “How to build a career oriented mindset” for BSc and MSc students!
Join the webinar on Zoom on April 8, 2023 at 6PM (CET)
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84108269230
Meeting ID: 841 0826 9230
04.April.2023
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐒𝐑𝟗 – 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐒𝐑𝟏𝟎 – 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐒𝐂-𝐁𝐌𝐂𝐒 / 𝐒𝐂𝐈 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬.
ESR9- Angela Lamberti and ESR10-Georgia Goutsiou presented their results during the 7th RSC-BMSC / SCI symposium on Ion Channels as Therapeutic Targets on 27-28 March 2023 in Cambridge (UK). Well Done!!!
16.March.2023
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR11- Oscar Chan (MEDRES) completed his two-months secondment at University Medical Center Utrecht in the laboratory of Laura B Creemers.
08.February.2023
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR9 – Angela Lamberti (UMH) is currently seconded at University of Piemonte Orientale in the laboratory of Professor Tracey Pirali.
08.January.2023
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR13- Francesca Picco (KCL) will be seconded at University of Leeds for the next three months to acquire new skills and know how on microfluidics and electron microscopy.
07.December.2022
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐄𝐒𝐑𝟏𝟑 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫!
ESR13- Francesca Picco presented her results during the UK Extracellular Vescicle Society Forum 2022 in Edinburgh on 1-2 December 2022. Well Done!
23.November.2022
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐄𝐒𝐑𝟗 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫!
ESR9 – Angela Lamberti presented her results during the XIV San Alberto Magno congress held at UMH (Elche – Spain) on 16 November 2022. Well done!
30.October.2022
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐄𝐒𝐑𝟓 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫!
ESR5 – Sanyia Salathia presented her results during EPNOE workshop “Polysaccharides for drug delivery – on the road to innovation!” held in Rome (Italy) on October 27-28, 2022. Well Done!
10.October.2022
TRAINING TIME!
The 2nd PIANO Training Event organized by our partner University Medical Center Utrecht in collaboration with King’s College London and Percuros BV will take place from 17th to 21st October 2022 in Utrecht (The Netherlands)!
01.August.2022
SECONDMENT TIME
ESR11 – Oscar Chan (MEDRES) completed his 5-months secondment at AO Foundation (Switzerland) under the supervision of Dr Junxuam Ma and Dr Sybille Grad!
10.July.2022
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐄𝐒𝐑𝟏𝟎 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫!
ESR10 – Georgia Goutsiou presented her first results during the 41st European School for Medicinal Chemistry held in Urbino (Italy) on 3-7 July 2022. Well Done!
29.June.2022
We are hiring!!! One Early Stage Researcher position available at PERCUROS BV. To know more and how to apply https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/805200
06.June.2022
Congratulation to PIANO ESR3 and ESR9 for their first poster!
ESR3 – Zuzanna Samol presented her project during the ISPT Conference 2022 (23-25 May 2022, Valencia, Spain).
ESR9 – Angela Lamberti presented her first results during the VIII Congress of the Spanish Network on Ion Channels (24-27 May 2022, San Juan – Alicante, Spain).
31.March.2022
TRAINING TIME!
We are pleased to announce that the 1st PIANO Training Event organized by our partner AO Foundation in collaboration with King’s College London will take place from 4 to 6 April 2022 in Davos (Switzerland)!
1.March.2022
We are pleased to announce that all 15 fellows joined the PIANO network. Let’s the journey begin!
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