📢 Join the 10th Women Researchers' Day: Recognition of Women in Science at the Institute of Molecular Science, Universitat de Valencia.
🎤 Talk by Dr. María J. Vicent + roundtable on leadership in science.
📅 Mar 9 | ⏰ 14:40
🔗 Register (by March 7): forms.gle/8uRS1ZYXPrmk...
🙏 Thanks to the Spanish Ministry of Science, EU NextGeneration, Generalitat Valenciana + FEDER, Fundación la Caixa, DFG, and other funders for their support.
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🎉 Congratulations to Antoni Serrano-Martí, first author of a new Theranostics paper that describes a robust preclinical model of bone-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer used to test nanomedicines.
bit.ly/4bvHdb7
👩🔬Nerea presented her work on “Exploring the Design and Self Assembly of pi-Conjugated Macroinitiators for Polypeptide-Based Nanocarrier Development".
16.01.2026 11:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
👩🔬Carla presented her work on “Porphyrin-Containing Polyglutamic Acid Nanocarriers for the PDT of Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer".
16.01.2026 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
👩🔬Leire presented her work on “Polypeptide-Based Combination Therapy for the Treatment of TNBC Brain Metastases"
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The XVI Spanish–Portuguese Conference on Controlled Drug Delivery SPLC-CRS has kicked off in Albacete, Spain (Jan 14–16)!
Our PI MJ Vicent and PhD students Leire Miguela Maroto, Carla Ortuño Moya & Nerea Manzano are representing the Polymer Therapeutics Lab. ❄️🔬
#SPLC-CRS
Congratulations to Camilla Pegoraro (Polymer Therapeutics Lab) for her PhD Thesis Award by the Spanish-Portuguese Conference on Controlled Drug Delivery.
Yesterday, our former PhD student gave a talk on the “Mitochondria Targeted Polypeptide-Drug Conjugate Delivery Platforms”.
A rationally designed polypeptide-based hybrid platform for targeted intranasal brain drug delivery:
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Combining architectural tunability and biocompatible nose-to-brain delivery system with potential for treating neurological disorders by @vicentptlab.bsky.social
A warm welcome to Elena! 🎉 She’s hopping into our lab for her clinical and biomedical internship where she will be working under the supervision of Esther and Alberto. Glad to have you on board!
07.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Brunkow, Ramsdell & Sakaguchi win for revealing how our immune system avoids attacking itself. Their work on regulatory T cells and the Foxp3 gene revealed the key to immune tolerance (for new therapies in cancer, autoimmune diseases, and transplant medicine). #NobelPrize
06.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Busy week! 🔬 María Jesús gave a public talk at CaixaForum: Nanomedicine – the molecular GPS that heals from within 🏃♀️ and then joined the cancer awareness walk in Vila-real on Saturday 💙 Science + solidarity = 💯
#Nanomedicine#CancerAwareness #CaixaForum #🧬🎗️
MFS25 conference is already happening at CIPF! 🔬✨
Our very own Esther Masiá from the Polymer Therapeutics group is here with her poster "Identifying modulated exosomes in a 3D breast cancer model using ExoScreen and Cell Painting tech". 🧫🧠
Come by and say hi! 👋
#MFS25 #CIPF
The Polymer Therapeutics team is all in for #WorldCancerResearchDay 💪🔬 One of our biggest goals: advancing cancer research!!! #CancerResearch #ScienceForHope
24.09.2025 21:47 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tanibet-Our new PhD student!!!!
We're excited to welcome Tanibet Alba O’Reilly!🎉She will join us as a PhD student through the prestigious MSCA Doctoral Network NATPRIME. Her research focuses on designing polypeptide-based nanosystems with natural mitochondria-targeting properties for oligonucleotide delivery🧬
22.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Valentina Zazza-Our new member of Polymer Therapeutics Lab!
Direct from Italy 🇮🇹, Valentina Zazza will be pursuing a PhD in our lab for the next few years. Her PhD will focus on the development of novel polymeric carriers for use as non-viral gene delivery vectors for the treatment of glioblastoma 🧠. Good luck!
16.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
You can also visit our posters during #NanoThera!
⏩️ P23: Polypeptide-based nanotherapeutics for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
⏩️ P12: D-π conjugated machininators for functional polypeptide nanocarriers
Come by and check them out! 💡🧪🧫
Today was also hot. Two great flash talks from our team today at #NanoThera
🧫Bone metastatic prostate cancer model as a nanomedicine platform by Dr. Toni Serrano.
⚗️Microfluidic click chemistry for functional nanocarriers by María Ibáñez.
📍Visit their posters number 22 and 14 for more details.
Our raising star, Amina Benaicha, talked yesterday about her PhD studies on multifunctional nanotheranostics for glioblastoma treatment 🧪🔬
📍 Make sure to check out her poster number 20 during the #NanoThera conference!
👏 Great flash talk yesterday by our postdoctoral researcher María Medel on porphyrin polypeptides to overcome tumor resistance via light-activated therapy ⚗️🔬
📍 Don’t miss her poster number 13 these days at #NanoThera
NanoThera congress started yesterday with an amazing talk of María J. Vicent about Polypeptide-based Nanomedicines 🧪🧫🔬
09.09.2025 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 Exciting news! Our lab head Dra. Maria Jesus Vicent has officially become President of the Controlled Release Society (CRS)
We are proud to see her lead the global drug delivery community, a role that reflects her years of dedication, hard work and scientific excellence💊🔬👩🏼🔬
La investigadora del CIPF, Mª Jesús Vicent y su grupo
@vicentptlab.bsky.social participan junto a Julia Lorenzo
@uab.cat y @vhir.bsky.social en este proyecto para la enfermedad de Gaucher financiado por @FundlaCaixa #CaixaImpulse
www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/2025...
📢🚨 New paper!!
Thrilled to share the new publication of our PhD student Paz Boix on the Identification of functionalized nanomedicine in advanced breast cancer in vitro models 🎉🧫🔬🧬
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
📢 Exciting News! The paper “A Light-driven Molecular Motor-Poypeptide Conjugate Supports Controlled Cell Uptake” of our PhD student Camilla Pegoraro has been recognized as a HOT Article in Journal of Materials Chemistry B 👏🏼 @jmaterchem.rsc.org
doi.org/10.1039/D4TB...
Celebrando #11F, Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia 🔬💜
Nuestro grupo cuenta con un gran número de científicas trabajando cada día con pasión y dedicación por el avance del conocimiento.
¡Sigamos inspirando y construyendo una ciencia más inclusiva! 👩🔬✨ #MujeresEnLaCiencia
VicentPTLab representation at the 5th SPLC-CRS Young Scientists Meeting 👩🏼🔬🧪 This year our PhD student Amina shared her advances in Phtalocyanine-based polypeptide conjugates for Glioblastoma treatments!
31.01.2025 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are thrilled to announce our lab’s second paper of 2025 in Advanced Materials 🥳😍 Great work from our excellent PhD student Camilla Pegoraro in collaboration with Biomolmacs👩🏼🔬 Thanks also to all the participants who contributed to this achievment 🧫🔬
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
There is no better way to inaugurate our account than by announcing the lab’s first paper of 2025 🥳🧫🧬 Thanks to all the participants and collaborations who have contributed in this work…This is just the beginning…🚀
pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/...
