Lecture: «Multifunctional molecular nanovesicles. A new challenge for drug delivery»
In this lecture a simple one-step and scale-up methodology for preparing multifunctional nanovesicle-drug conjugates will be presented. This method is readily amenable to the integration/encapsulation of multiple bioactive components, like peptides, proteins, enzymes, into the vesicles in a single-step yielding sufficient quantities for clinical research becoming, thereby, nanocarriers to be used in nanomedicine.
A couple of examples of novel nanomedicines for solving serious diseases, prepared by this methodology, will be presented.
About J. Veciana
Prof. Jaume Veciana (Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC and Centro de Investigación en Red en Biomateriales, Bioingeniería y Nanomedicina, CIBER-BBN) was appointed as Colaborador Cientifico of the CSIC in 1979 and in 1982/1983 moved to The Johns Hopkins University, MD (USA), with Dwaine O. Cowan, as a Postdoctoral fellow working on molecular conductors and organic metals. In 1991 he moved to the ICMAB where was promoted to Full Professor in 1996. He co-authored more than 400 journal articles and book chapters, 15 patents, and edited two books receiving in 2001 the Solvay Award and in 2004 the Real Sociedad de Quimica Española Award for his research in chemistry. In 2005 he received the DuPont Award for his contributions in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. His research interest focuses on Molecular Functional Materials, Molecular Nanoscience, and Nanomedicine.