Biomedicines Webinar | Plasma Sources, Plasma Treated Liquids Chemistry and Their Therapeutic Potential in Cancer
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10th Biomedicines Webinar
Plasma Sources, Plasma Treated Liquids Chemistry and Their Therapeutic Potential in Cancer
Plasma medicine is a dynamically developing interdisciplinary field, with many biological applications. The effects of cold atmospheric plasma are mainly based on the production of various chemical species, which can vary according to the plasma devices used and the types of liquids treated.
In this webinar, the description of a novel approach to the chemical characterization of plasma-treated liquids will follow an overview of the main types of plasma sources, with a final focus on applications in cancer treatment.
Researchers in different disciplines, from life sciences to chemistry and physics, are welcome to attend in order to find out more about plasma medicine. The webinar is open to beginners who want to approach this promising field, as well as to more experienced researchers in search of novel insights in plasma mechanisms and applications.
Date: 11 October 2023
Time: 9:00 am CEST | 3:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 890 7383 8990
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chairs
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Emilio Martines
Department of Physics “G. Occhialini”, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy;
Emilio Martines is associate professor of plasma physics at University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy. He developed the first part of his scientific career as a researcher of the National Research Council of Italy, working in the field of nuclear fusion research at Consorzio RFX in Padova, where in 2007 he was appointed as head of one of the research groups operating there. At the time, his main interests were turbulence in fusion plasmas and the formation of helical states in toroidal devices. However, he always kept an interest in low-temperature plasmas, which led him to work on magnetron sputtering plasmas and MPD thrusters for space propulsion. He subsequently developed an interest in plasma medicine, which led him to be the lead author of the first research paper published in this field by an Italian group, and finally brought him to the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he is responsible of plasma medicine activities. He is author of more than 170 papers published in refereed journals, more than 100 papers in proceedings of international conferences, and of 3 patents, two of which related to plasma medicine.
Prof. Marcello Locatelli
Department of Pharmacy, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy;
The research activity is aimed at the development and validation of chromatographic methods for the qualitative and quantitative determination of biologically active molecules in human and animal, cosmetics, food, and environmental complex matrices. These procedures have been applied to different analytes and drugs/drug associations also finding application in clinical and pre-clinical studies, to characterize new delivery systems of the active principle to improve their pharmacological properties. In the development of the method are applied predictive models and chemometric both for the optimization of extraction protocols and for final data processing. Particular attention is given to the innovative (micro)extraction techniques and new instrumental configurations for complex matrix quantitative analysis. Scientific activity is proven by more than 230 publications in International peer-reviewed Journals, by 17 book chapters and 7 books, by more than 34 oral and 160 poster communications at National and International conferences.
He is member of the research group which has recently been founded by NextGenerationEU and PNRR under the program Boost for Interdisciplinarity, University of Chieti-Pescara, for the project “COld atmospheric plasma therapy to target head and neck Tumours by A multImodaL approach (COCKTAIL)”.
Prof. Nagendra Kumar Kaushik
Plasma Bioscience Research Center, Department of Electrical and Biological Physics, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea;
Prof. Nagendra Kaushik has been working at the Department of Electrical and Biological Physics & Plasma Bioscience Research Center at Kwangwoon University in Seoul, South Korea since 2010. His research work is primarily focused on plasma bioscience, agriculture, environment, nanotechnology. He also working as Honorary Professor at Maharaja Surajmal Brij University (State University), Bahartpur, India. He has developed several new courses and supervised 10 PhD students. He has published more than 200 high-impact publications, including many in top-ranked journals, registered several patents and received many awards academic societies. He has participated in several R&D research projects of budgets more than USD 20,000,000 upto now. Prof. Kaushik is serving as the editor of more than 20 journals including Scientific Reports, IEEE journals, Plos One, Frontiers, MDPI journals and many others. He is also listed in World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier continuously since 2021.
Prof. Neha Kaushik
Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering, The University of Suwon, Hwaseong-si, South Korea;
Prof. Neha Kaushik has been a Professor at the Biotechnology Department of The University of Suwon since 2020. Previously she worked as a Research Professor at Hanyang University from 2015-2020. Her current research is based on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Oncology, Radiation Biology, Plasma Medicine, Biotechnology, Bio-engineering, Bioinformatics, Nano-biotechnology, Drug Delivery Systems, and more. Prof. Neha is Promoting research that fuses natural science and medicine for the source technology of future biomedical and plasma bioscience industries is a necessity of the scientific world. Her ongoing study is on tumor cell biology and its impacts on cancer patients for improving survival rates. More specifically, she is interested in the causes (signaling route, molecular events) of cancer from the phenotypic changes to the molecular level. She is focused on new molecular targets using recent advances in genomics/proteomics that offer the perfect model for certain biological applications. Prof. Neha has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed SCI/E research publications. Prof. Neha has been also an editor of Nature BJC Reports, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Nanotechnology, and several other journals also working as a reviewer/guest editor of >40 SCI/SCIE journals.
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The webinar’s aim was to give an insight into the wide interdisciplinary field of plasma medicine.
The first speaker, Prof. Emilio Martines, described different plasma sources for biomedical applications, giving details for their practical use.
Prof. Marcello Locatelli spoke about the characterization of the Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) activated culture media by an innovative approach based on ion chromatography, which allows the quantification of different anions related to reactive oxygen and nitrogen species produced by CAP exposure.
Coming to biological applications, Prof. Nagendra Kaushik presented a comprehensive analysis of plasma-treated water applications in oncology, offering a wide perspective ranging from chemical characterization to in vitro and in vivo analyses, and finally focusing on the effects on tumour microenvironment.
Last but not least, Prof. Neha Kaushik provided an interesting focus on the potential of genomics in exploring the effects of plasma treated solutions in fighting different types of tumours.
According to the speaker's request, we only kept the webinar recording of the Q&A part.
“Plasma Applications in Biomedicine”
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Viktor Suschek
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2023
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