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PlasmaMed Lab, in collaboration with researchers of the Center for Oncological Research (CORE) of the University of Antwerpen (Belgium), has recently published the paper "Injectable Plasma-Treated Alginate Hydrogel for Oxidative Stress Delivery to Induce Immunogenic Cell Death in Osteosarcoma" on Advanced Functional Materials.

Adrià Barceló, part of the Proof of Concept ERC-funded project "TRANSFORMER: Transforming bone cancer therapy with composite biomaterials encapsulating plasma-generated RONS", has participated at the OpenMic Sensation! on stage of the 4YFN Barcelona (Spain) event.

Following the appearance of Pablo Motos, a popular Spanish TV host, in a video where Doctor Anna Baeza and himself claimed the existance of a “cell regeneration” machine that uses cold plasmas to give a "shot of energy" to the cells, Dr. Cristina Canal was consulted by various media about what cold plasma therapies are and their actual use in medicine.

The team of the PlasmaMED lab attended almost in full the 3rd Training School “Cold plasma and combined anticancer therapies” of the PlasTHER Cost Action, held in Orléans (France) from the 15th to the 18th of April, 2024.

Doctor Cristina Canal has been featured at the Leaders of the LTP Community: Career Profiles section of the ILTPC Newsletter, published by the International Low Temperature Plasma Community (ILTPC) in its edition number #40.

A good representation the PlasmaMED lab's team attended the 3rd Annual Meeting & Management Committee of COST Action PlasTHER “Therapeutical applications of cold plasmas”, held in Budapest (Hungary) from the 10th to the 13th of June, 2024.

Dr. Joanna Wessely-Szponder and PhD students Dominika Nguyen Ngok and Beata Drzewiecka from the University of Life Sciences of Lublin (Poland) have visited our lab in a very busy one-week research stay.

Adrià Barceló, Tech Transfer Manager at the PlasmaMed Lab, was awarded 2nd Best Pitch by Xartec Salut's Venture Builder Program for his pitch on project TRANSFORMER.

PhD student Milica Živanić just won the 2nd Best Oral Presentation Award at the 9th International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment (IWPCT), held in Portorož, Slovenia, from Sep. 8th to Sep. 13th 2024, together with the 10th International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM10).

Dr. Cristina Canal and Dr. Francesco Tampieri, together with other PlasmaMED Lab and BBT members, are part of an Erasmus+ project that intends to to promote the development of competencies for environmentally sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship in STEAM study programs.