On the 2nd of December 2016 CIC biomaGUNE celebrated its 10th anniversary with a 1-day scientific seminar, which included four scientific talks, a poster session and a lunch that gathered together all CIC biomaGUNE employees. After the initial welcome speeches given by Jose María Mato and Luis Liz-Marzán General and Scientific Directors of CIC biomaGUNE, respectively, Professor Soledad Penadés, head of the Glyconanotechnology Lab at CIC biomaGUNE during 2006-2016, spoke about the work carried out by her group during the last ten years.
Prof. Penadés was followed by Professor Helmuth Möhwald from the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Golm, Germany), whose lecture was centered on functional films and capsules for biomedical applications. Prof. Möhwald is a member of the CIC biomaGUNE International Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Juan C. Mareque-Rivas (CIC biomaGUNE) focused his intervention on the potentially perfect partnership between molecular imaging, nanoparticles and the immune system for cancer immunotherapy.
Finally, Prof. Jesús María Ruiz-Cabello, Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC, Madrid), gave a talk on new horizons in cardiovascular and pulmonary molecular and cellular imaging.