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EVENT FORMAT
Lecture
2020
Januar y
12-2 3
New Porous Hybrid Materials in Biomedicine
DESCRIPTION
Within the past few decades, many new materials (liposomes, polymers, silica, etc.) have been considered to address
the challenges of controlled delivery of challenging (anticancer, antiretroviral, etc.) drugs that suffer from a poor
bioavailability once administered in the body (poorly soluble or unstable drugs). Among them, metal-organic
frameworks are crystalline micro or mesoporous solids highly suitable drug carriers due to their suitable environment
to host a wide range of drugs within their large ordered pores as well as their biocompatible and biodegradable
character.
In this talk, Christian Serre will describe how these new drug carriers are constructed, synthesized and report their
main drug delivery features, including their use in recent in vitro or in vivo biomedical applications. We will finally high-
light their main perspectives and challenges in this field.
SPEAKER Christian Serre
CREDITS 1
Highly cited scientist and CNRS Research Director at Ecole Normale Supérieure
de Paris and ESPCI