Three BBT's researchers, speakers at the ISBPPB 2018 conference

Dr. Marta Pegueroles, Dr. Cristina Canal and Inès Hamouda, speakers at the 4th International Society for Biomedical Polymers and Polymeric Biomaterials (ISBPPB) conference and exposition in Krakow (Poland), held on July 15-18, 2018.

Dr. Marta Pegueroles, Invited Speaker at ISBPPB2018 with a Keynote Lecture on "Controlled drug delivery from 3D printed poly-l-lactic acid bioresorbable stent" is head of the Cardiovascular Research line of the BBT. 

Dr. Canal (ERC APACHE project leader) presented her work on "Cold atmospheric plasma generation and quantification of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in biocompatible hydrogels" (C. Labay, I. Hamouda, M.-P. Ginebra, C. Canal), while PhD student Hamouda showed her results on the "Modification of alginate based-hydrogel for therapeutical applications using cold atmospheric plasma" (I. Hamouda, C. Labay, M.-P. Ginebra, C. Canal).

The Conference sessions included topics such as controlled release systems, drug delivery systems, antimicrobial polymers, biodegradable polymers and copolymers, tissue engineering, and many others.