2022
EEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Micro/nanosystems for Medicine, Hawaii, US
Engineering and controlling microrobots for nanodrug delivery
December
December Spotlight “Fighting tumors with microrobots"
When we, the DaNa team as operators of the website nanopartikel.info, write about nanobots, i.e. nanometre-sized machines, we point out that these machines belong to science fiction, may even remain a utopia – i.e. never realisable. On the significantly larger micro-scale, however, small machines are conceivable that could help in the therapy of diseases, e.g. cancer. Such an approach is now presented by S. Schürle from ETH Zurich, who is developing magnetically controllable microrobots. She is using naturally occurring bacteria that have a magnetic “core” and with the help of which they can be steered to the target as microrobots. Read on..
December
MRS Fall meeting Boston, MA, US.
Presentations:
Tino Gwisai – “Magnetic torque-drivven living microrobots for enhanced tumor infiltration”
Michael Christiansen – ” Inductively detectable nanorobots for sensing protease activity”
Daphne O. Asgerisson – “Magnetically controlled micro-deformation of 3D cell culture environments for long-term
mechanobiological studies in situ” Outstanding Poster Award, Congratulations Daphne for your hard work! Session SB07
Nima Mirkhani – “Scalable scheme for spatially selective actuation of living microrobots, demonstrated by colonization of tumor spheroids”
November
News Coverage
Coverage on Science Robotics article on magnetic torque driven tumor-targeting microrobots
November
7th International Meeting on Magnetotactic Bacteria, Bayreuth, Germany
Presentations:
Stefano Menghini – “Metabolic effects of Magnetospirillum magneticum on human cancer cells”
Tino Gwisai – “Magnetic torques enhance tumor infiltration of cargo-carrying magnetotactic cacteria”
Nima Mirkhani – “Magnetotactic bacteria as tunable flow mediators”
September
Physics of Cancer, Leipzig, Germany
Young Investigator Award, 2nd Prize
Daphne O. Asgerisson – Magnetically controlled microdeformation of 3D Tumor models for mechanobiology
studies
September
Swiss Nanoconvention, Fribourg, Switzerland
Presentation:
Engineering micro- & nanorobots for drug delivery and local detection of pathological signals
July
International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), Toronto, Canada
Presentation:
Nima Mirkhani – “Scalable, spatially selective actuation of living microrobots”
June
13th International Conference on the Scientific and Clinical Applications of Magnetic Carriers
Presentations:
Tino Gwisai– “Using magnetic torques to enhance tumor infiltration of cargo-carrying magnetotactic bacteria”
Michael Christiansen – “Development of inductively detectable probes for proteolytic activity”
June
Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles US, Virtual
Online Talk:
Engineering microrobots for tissue probing, biosensing, and enhanced drug delivery
February
Bristol Biodesign Institute, Bristol, UK, Virtual
Online Talk:
Engineering microrobots for biosensing and enhanced drug delivery
February
27th European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging, Virtual
Presentation:
Dragana Dubey– “Encoding stimulus-responsiveness into microbubbles through lipid shell crosslinking”
Best Presentation Award- Congratulations Dragana for your hard work!
January