PHOTOTHERAPORT

Yesterday, the #Phototheraport team had the opportunity to participate in #NitRecerCat25 at the workshop “What are photodrugs & how light can help health” led by Bia Moreno & Nayeli Pérez 🌟💡

💡 Imagine tiny “light bulbs” inside your body that activate medicine only where needed!

Join #PhotoTheraport at #NitRecerCat25 for the workshop: What are photodrugs & how light can help health

📍 Casa Golferichs | 🕕 18:00 - 23/09 | Registration required

1️⃣ Taller 23/09

✨ Descobreix com la llum pot ajudar a la salut!
Taller interactiu per a tota la família amb nanomaterials fotosensibles, neurones reals i sons del cervell.

📍 Casa Golferichs | 🕕 18:00 | Cal inscripció

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🔬✨ A la #NitRecerCat25, l' #IBEC porta la ciència a tothom amb activitats gratuïtes de la mà del @phototheraport.bsky.social i l' @spm40projecteu.bsky.social!

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💡A new frontier in biomedicine with @phototheraport.bsky.social‬ participation: scientists have used safe, low-intensity infrared light to control heart rate in living organisms, without surgery or implants, with a light-sensitive molecule of azobenzene.
🎉Congratulations to all authors! 🎉

👉Last week #PHOTOTHERAPORT team met at
@IBECBarcelona for our 18-month project meeting. 2 days of intense and fruitful discussions to define next steps in our #photopharmacology strategy: light-emitting implants + photo-controlled drugs to treat #neuropathicpain & #epilepsy. 💡🧠
#EUeic #EUResearch

💡 Light to treat neurological diseases & pain? It's near!
Luisa Camerin at @IBEC explains how the project 🔬#PHOTOTHERAPORT uses photo-switchable drugs 💊activated by light for precise treatment.
Learn more: phototheraport.org
#Neurology #PainManagement #LightTherapy

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#PHOTOTHERAPORT researchers from @ibecbarcelona.eu
and #IIBBCSIC were at #FestaDeLaCiència! About 200 assistants explored how light-emitting implants & photo-controlled drugs can precisely transform pain & epilepsy treatment. How cool is that?

#ScienceFestival #Neuroscience

💡🧠Tomorrow is the Spanish Epilepsy Day! We want to highlight how #PHOTOTHERAPORT #EUfunded project is pioneering #photopharmacology to develop light-controlled therapies that target #Epilepsy with precision, aiming for more effective and safer treatments #epilepsia #DíaNacionalEpilepsia #EUScience

💡🔬 Vine a descobrir com la llum pot millorar la salut! Els projectes #HYLIGHTembryo i @phototheraport.bsky.social de l’ #IBEC t’esperen a la #FestadelaCiència!

📅 1 de juny
📍 Centre Cultural del Born

Un taller ple de #fotofarmacologia i ciència inspiradora!

💡It’s #InternationalDayOfLight! Let’s celebrate with #PHOTOTHERAPORT, an EU project creating smart implants using light to treat pain, epilepsy & more. Precision light-based therapies are here to transform lives.
Learn more:🌐https://phototheraport.org #LightTherapy #ScienceForAll
@ibecbarcelona.eu

👏👏Congratulations to the excellent talk recently given by Prof. Valērija Groma at the @RSUinfo International Research Conference on Medical and Health Care Sciences: “Appearance and distribution of voltage-gated sodium channels in excitable and non-excitable cells of the human brain”. #eicPathfinder

Shapla Bhattacharya in the center, Dmitrijs Punte in the left and Daniele Gasparini in the right

This year, #PHOTOTHERAPORT 🔬✨ participated in #ShadowDay in Latvia. Shapla, a Ph.D. student at LIOS, shadowed Dimitrijs Punte and introduced him to the fundamentals of structural biology, crystallography, and PET degradation. A fantastic opportunity to explore new professions! 🤝

@ibecbarcelona.eu

A dynamic group of experts in neuroscience, bioengineering, and chemistry from 8 leading Research Institutions is working to create the next wave of light-driven therapies. 🔬✨

#PrecisionMedicine 💉 #Neuroscience 🧠

Who is behind #PHOTOTHERAPORT?🔬✨

A cutting-edge multidisciplinary team of neuroscientists, bioengineers, and chemists working to develop the next generation of light-driven therapies for the nervous system.

Check next post to know them 👇

#photopharmacology 💊💡🧠 #eicPathfinder

🔬💡 Last week #PHOTOTHERAPORT researchers were at #EspaiCiència from the saló de l'ensenyament! 70+ students explored how the combination of light-emitting implants and photocontrolled drugs can revolutionize the treatment of pain & epilepsy

#photopharmacology #IBEC

🎙️ #PHOTOTHERAPORT coordinator and #IBEC researcher Pau Gorostiza shared his experience as a grant recipient at an EIC Pathfinder Open workshop💡🚀

His participation provided insights on the writing process and key strategies to prepare successful proposals for the upcoming 2025 call🙌

What does #PHOTOTHERAPORT proposes?

💡 PhotoTheraPorts: Tiny implants that emit visible light inside the body.
💊 Photoswitchable drugs: Activated only by specific wavelengths for targeted action.

This means precise neuromodulation with reduced systemic side effects.

📢💡 What if we could treat neuropathic pain & epilepsy with light?

In #PHOTOTHERAPORT, we’re developing light-emitting implants & light-controlled drugs for precise, side-effect-free treatments!

🚀 Funded by EU | Learn more: phototheraport.org

🧠 For #BrainAwarenessWeek we’re excited to present the #PHOTOTHERAPORT EU project!

🇪🇺 8 leading research institutions in Europe are collaborating to develop light-controlled drugs that modulate neuronal activity locally & on-demand without systemic side effects! 💡🔬