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The
Nanomedicine Laboratory
The Nanomedicine Lab's mission is to:
Generate and disseminate fundamental
knowledge in the emerging field of nanomedicine by bringing
together bioengineering, pharmacology and nanotechnology and
their translation as advanced, clinically-relevant therapeutics
and diagnostics
Our aim is the development of novel, viable and effective
therapeutics based on bioengineering and nanotechnology components,
used as either the 'drug' or the 'delivery system'. Such components
include DNA, RNA, viruses, stem cells, radionuclides, liposomes,
carbon nanomaterials and other nanospheres.
The research efforts taking place within the Nanomedicine
Lab are bridging the gap between fundamental
nanomaterials engineering and pharmaceutical development towards
the realisation of advanced therapeutic modalities used as
nanomedicines.
In
The NEWS
Mass
Media
Nanomedicine
Lab research images win 3 Image Awards at
this year's Wellcome
Trust Image Awards and enter the Wellcome
Collection. Images of breast and pancreatic tumor
spheroids prepared by Dr Khuloud Al-Jamal,
Research Fellow in Nanomedicine, and red blood cells prepared
by Ms Lara Lacerda, PhD student
were imaged with microscopist Mr David McCarthy and colored
by Ms Annie Cavanaugh, Head
of the School of Pharmacy Multimedia Unit. All images were
featured extensively in mass media such as The
Guardian and BBC
News on the 10th of March 2008.
 
BusinessWeek
magazine highlighted on July 11th 2007 how The
Nanomedicine Lab teamed up with video game
maker PlayGen
to make the first Nanomedicine Video Game and help
educate and develop tomorrow's scientists in the process.
You can read the BusinessWeek
story
here or try a module of the Nanomedicine
Video Game yourselves!
The
Times of June 26th 2007 published the third supplement
on Nanotechnology, featuring an article by Prof.Kostarelos
titled: 'Nanotechnology
can lead the battle against cancer' (download
the page by clicking on the title).
The Netherlands evening daily newspaper
NRC Handerlsbad (nation-wide
circulation) featured an article about our recently published
work in Nature Nanotechnology on the February 17, 2007 issue.
The article was titled: 'Nanotubes
pinching through cell walls' by Michiel van Nieuwstad
(click on the title to read in Dutch)
Prof. Kostarelos has given two interviews
for BBC
Radio 4 and BBC
World Service programmes about our work
on carbon nanotubes (you can download & listen to those
interviews by clicking on the highlighted titles above and below):
BBC
Radio 4 - The Leading Edge (interview by Geoff Watts) broadcasted
in the UK on April 6, 2006
BBC
World Service - Science in Action (interview by John Stewart)
broadcasted Worldwide
on April 7, 2006
The Nanomedicine
Laboratory was featured in
The
Times of London on February 20th 2006. Click
on the icon to download the article titled 'Innerspace
Travel' by Prof Kostarelos:
Scientific
& Medical Media
Research from the Nanomedicine
Lab was featured on the April 2008 issue of
Nature
Nanotechnology in a 'News & Views' commentary
on Nanotoxicology titled: 'Are
Carbon Nanotubes Safe?'
Nature Nanotechnology 3,191: News
& Views 
Research from the
Nanomedicine Lab was
highlighted on the April 2007 issue of Nature
Methods (click cover image to download):
Nature Methods, 4(4), 299: Research
Highlights 
Research from the Nanomedicine
Lab was featured online on January 31, 2007
in Chemical &
Engineering News, the weekly magazine of the American
Chemical Society, as a Latest News item:
'Nanoneedles
pierce cells' was published in the print issue
of February 5, 2007 
Elsevier HealthCare's two
medical practice weekly magazines Hospital
Doctor and Doctor
highlight the Nanomedicine Lab
as one of the leading nanomedicine laboratories
and feature our research in the following stories (click on
the titles of the stories to read):
Science from the Nanomedicine
Laboratory was reported in the magazine Scientific
American
Scientific
American, News Scan, May 26, 2006
The Nanomedicine
Laboratory has been featured twice in 2006
in Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly magazine of
the American Chemical Society.
C&EN
Latest News, February 20, 2006
C&EN
Science & Technology Section, August 28, 2006
'Carbon
Nanotubes pass safety test' was published in
the print issue of February 20, 2006 
Recent work from
the Nanomedicine Laboratory
on carbon nanotubes for cancer research has
been highlighted in Chemical Biology,
Royal Society of Chemistry.
Chemical
Biology, Volume 1 / Issue 4 /April 2006 / p.B15
Below you can find a
small selection of other media, scientific organisations and
websites that have recently featured News from the Nanomedicine
Lab :
The
National Cancer Institute
(USA): All types
of carbon nanotubes penetrate wide variety of of cell membranes,
February 20, 2007
The
Washington Times (USA):
Nano World: Making safer carbon nanotubes February
24, 2006
The
National Cancer Institute
(USA): Making Nanotubes
Water-Soluble, Perhaps Safer February 21, 2006
The
Institute of Nanotechnology (UK): Carbon
Nanotubes Pass Safety Checks for Use in Medical Treatments,
Say Scientists at University of London February 20, 2006
The
Institute of Physics (UK):
Carbon nanotubes pass through body fast February
15, 2006
The
American Chemical Society (USA): Carbon
Nanotubes Pass Safety Test February 14, 2006
United
Press International (USA):
How nanotubes enter cells December 20, 2005
Royal
Society of Chemistry (UK): Gene Therapy
Goes Nano October 2005
Medical
Science News (USA): Carbon nanotubes
offer a new approach to gene therapy 11 October 2004
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