Latest Developments

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and represents a significant burden on global health systems. Many existing chemotherapy treatments come with severe side effects, ranging from hair loss to cardiotoxicity and many types of cancer express chemotherapy resistance such as triple-negative breast cancer. This study presents a novel boron/nitrogen-doped carbon nano-onion (BN-CNO) …

Hugh Mohan, a final-year PhD student in the Giordani Group, delivered an exceptional presentation at the DCU Tell It Straight Final on March 5th and earned the Runner-Up Prize. His PhD research focuses on using boron and nitrogen-doped carbon nano-onions as nanocarriers to enhance breast cancer therapy.

Carbon dots (CDs) are small-sized, spherical nanoparticles presenting amorphous carbon cores with nanocrystalline regions of a graphitic structure. They show unique properties such as high aqueous solubility, robust chemical inertness, and non-toxicity and can be manufactured at a relatively low cost. They are also well known for outstanding fluorescence tunability and resistance to …

Warm welcome Francesco to the Giordani group! Francesco joins us from the University of Montpellier where he carried out 4 years postdoctoral research on the discovery and optimisation of bioactive molecules targeting DNA and histone methyltransferases, relevant epigenetic players in cancer development and progression.

Yingru Zhou has been awarded Research Ireland’s Enterprise Partnership Scheme scholarship, partnered with Breakthrough Cancer Research. The project, EPSPG/2024/1846, titled Modulation Of carbon Nanoparticles for pAncReatic Cancer tHerapy (MONARCH), aims to enhance cancer treatment by developing drug delivery systems for more precise and efficient targeting of cancer cells.

We are delighted to share that Prof. Silvia Giordani has contributed to the editorial “Women in neuroengineering and neurotechnologies”, recently published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. This editorial emphasizes the value of promoting diversity and inclusion in neuroengineering and neurotechnologies while highlighting the noteworthy contributions made by women in the field.

Professor Silvia Giordani’s portrait features on the University of Montpellier’s website. She is currently a MAK’IT (Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions) visiting fellow at the University of Montpellier, with the aim to extend the applications of carbon nano-onions into the energy sector.