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Most relevant scientific articles
• Rodríguez-Cabello J.C., Arias F.J., Rodrigo M.A., Girotti A. Elastin-like polypeptides in drug delivery. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 2016.
• Vila M., García A., Girotti A., Alonso M., Rodríguez-Cabello J.C., González-Vázquez A. et al. 3D silicon doped hydroxyapatite scaffolds decorated with Elastin-like Recombinamers for bone regenerative medicine. Acta Biomaterialia. 2016;45:349-356.
• Pina M.J., Girotti A., Santos M., Rodríguez-Cabello J.C., Arias F.J. Biocompatible ELR-Based Polyplexes Coated with MUC1 Specific Aptamers and Targeted for Breast Cancer Gene Therapy. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 2016;13(3):795-808.
• Putzu M., Causa F., Nele V., De Torre I.G., Rodríguez-Cabello J.C., Netti P.A. Elastin-like- recombinamers multilayered nanofibrous scaffolds for cardiovascular applications. Biofabrication. 2016;8(4).
• Singh S., Demco D.E., Rahimi K., Fechete R., Rodríguez-Cabello J.C., Moller M. Coacervation of Elastin-Like Recombinamer Microgels. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 2016.
Highlights
In 2016 BIOFORGE’s funding came from 13 research projects and 2 networks with different funding sources. As for the Projects, BIOFORGE participated in 5 European projects funded by the European Commission (FP7-Health-2011, FP7-ITN-2012, H2020-ITN-2014 and H2020-NMP-2014) and ERA-NET (ERA-IB); 5 national projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity belonging to the Programme Societal Challenges; and 3 regional projects funded by the Ministry of Education of the Regional Government of Castilla y León. As far as the Networks is concerned, BIOFORGE took part in 2 Biomaterial Networks funded by the Carlos III Health Institute (CIBER-BBN and Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy Network of Castilla y León).
In this period, 10 articles were published in international journals, 9 of them in indexed high impact journals. Furthermore, the European Patent A temperature-sensitive bioactive biopolymer and associated cell-harvesting method (12796308.0) was requested in June 2016 and it was validated in Spain in December 2016.
The group members attended many scientific meetings giving around 18 oral presentations and 3 invited plenary talks.
Three PhD thesis with European mention were presented by the researchers Alicia Fernández Colino, Mohamed Hamed Misbah and María Jesús Piña Lancho. The three of them received the highest qualification.
The training activities of the group included invited conferences and contributing to four master programs of the University of Valladolid. Moreover, BIOFORGE organized the Workshop “Biomimetic Hydrogels”, in the framework of the Marie Curie Network BIOGEL (H2020-ITN-2014), to which 16 students from 13 European institutions attended.
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