Katarzyna Kisiel, M.Sc. Eng., a third-year doctoral student in the research group of Prof. Paweł Chmielarz (Chmielarz Research Group), has received funding for a 3-month scientific internship at the University of Camerino, Italy.
NAWA PRELUDIUM BIS 5 is an initiative of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange and the National Science Center aimed at supporting the international mobility of researchers. The stay constitutes an integral element of the research grant PRELUDIUM BIS 5 (No. UMO-2023/50/O/ST5/00104), which focuses on employing carbon quantum dots to synthesize functional polymeric materials through photoinduced atom transfer radical polymerization.
The objective of the program is to support the international mobility of PhD students by enabling them to undertake foreign research internships associated with their participation in research projects funded under the PRELUDIUM BIS 5 call by the National Science Centre (NCN). These foreign internships will allow PhD students to gain scientific experience in European and non-European academic or research institutions and to establish international scientific cooperation. These activities will act synergistically with the NCN PRELUDIUM BIS 5 project.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Paweł Chmielarz, Eng, PhD, DSc, ProfTit
Fellow: Katarzyna Kisiel, MSc, Eng
Project Value: 31 250,00 PLN
Financing with resources of Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, Poland
Aim of the Project:
The aim of the internship is to investigate the encapsulation and release of hydrophobic active compounds from polymeric drug delivery systems incorporating carbon quantum dots (CQDs) as their core. The main research objectives of the internship include the encapsulation of active compounds in micelles composed of amphiphilic and pH-responsive polymers, as well as the evaluation of active compound release efficiency under varying pH conditions. Additionally, the internship will involve initiating a collaboration on in vitro studies aimed at assessing the suitability and potential of the synthesized materials for use as polymeric drug delivery systems.
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