Dr Eric Mayes is Vice President, General Manager of Endomag, a Hologic Company, and has over 25 years’ experience in developing and leading “Deep Tech” companies spanning data storage, display technology, printed electronics and medical devices. Eric has led oncology focused Endomag from a UCL spin-out through its acquisition by leading women’s health company, Hologic, Inc. for $310m in 2024. Since marketing its first device for staging breast cancer in late 2012, the company has now helped over 600,000 patients receive a higher standard of care in over 1,500 hospitals across 45 countries. Prior to joining Endomag as CEO in 2010, Eric served as Director of Commercial Development for Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) which was sold to Sumitomo Chemical in 2007 for $285m. Prior to CDT, he served as CEO of NanoMagnetics that developed high performance materials for the data storage industry. For that founding role, he was named the Royal Society of Chemistry’s “Entrepreneur of the Year 2003”. With a strong interest in supporting the translation of scientific research, Eric lectures internationally on nanomaterials commercialisation and technology entrepreneurship. He has been an advisor to the University of Texas at Austin’s “Texas Health Catalyst”, the European Healthtech Translation Advisory Board (HealthtechTAB) and is currently on the Investment Committee for Cambridge Enterprise’s Technology Investment Fund (TIF). He holds a BSc in Physics from Arkansas State University, a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bath and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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• 🏆 Best-ranked talk: Roger Molto Pallares (Group Leader, RWTH Aachen University Hospital) – Engineered microbubbles for enhanced drug delivery, ultrasound imaging & barrier opening
• Mario Martinez (Postdoctoral Researcher, IMDEA Nanociencia) – Multifunctionalized gold nanoparticles for biomedical applications
• María González Portela (PhD Candidate, University of Santiago de Compostela) – Nanoassemblies for oral delivery of antibodies: Targeted treatment of intestinal diseases
• Pablo Taboada (Full Professor, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) – Biomimetic cellsome nanocarriers for cardiovascular disease treatment

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• Josep Garcia Garcia (R&D Formulation Manager, Curapath) – Shielding lipo-polymers: PEG-free alternatives for lipid nanoparticles
• Giovanna Lollo (Associate Professor, Claude Bernard Lyon 1) – Hybrid lipid-polymer nanocomposites for targeted oral therapy in IBD
• Cristina Yus (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zaragoza) – Antibacterial photodynamic therapy: a weapon against antimicrobial resistance

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• 🏆 Best-ranked talk: Sylvain Ladame (Reader in Biosensor Development, Imperial College London) – Swellable hydrogel microneedle patches to interrogate miRNA in skin fluid
• Alberto Martín Asensio (PhD Student, IMDEA Nanoscience) – Measuring nanoparticle transport in tumor-on-a-chip devices
• Chiara De Cesari (Postdoctoral Researcher, CNR Nanoscience Institute) – Neuronal extracellular vesicles to study Angelman Syndrome
• Silvia Picciolini (Researcher, IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi) – EVs as biomarkers for personalized cardiac rehabilitation
• Giovanni Nava (Professor, University of Milan) – Optical digital biosensor for whole-virus counting

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🏆 Best-ranked talks (ex-aequo):

• María Irujo (PhD Researcher, Advanced BioDesign) – Innovative ALDH inhibition for lung cancer therapy with SORT-lipid nanoemulsions
• Ambra Del Grosso (Postdoctoral Researcher, CNR Nanosciences & NEST Pisa) – Innovative Nanostructured Polymeric Platforms for Enzyme Delivery Across the Blood Brain Barrier
• Alba García-Fernández (Postdoctoral Researcher, CIBER/UPV) – Biocompatible fuel-powered nanomotors: Enhancing in vivo anticancer efficacy through deep drug penetration into tumors

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• Bella Manshian (Team Leader, KU Leuven) – 3D Precision-Cut Tissue Slices for Personalized Medicine Translation
• Salvador Borrós (Principal Investigator & Full Professor, IQS-URL) – Immunomodulatory pBAE polymers for mRNA vaccine delivery
• Camille Ménier (PhD Student, University of Angers) – Inhalable nanoparticles to fight lung cancer

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• 🏆 Best-ranked talk: Nuria Oliva (Associate Professor, IQS-URL) – Machine learning for precision nanomedicine: Forecasting cellular uptake
• Mingzhi Yu (PhD Student, University College Dublin) – High-throughput microfluidic & AI-driven screening of LNP formulations
• Alberto Martinez-Serra (Postdoctoral Researcher, BSC) – LLM-driven meta-analysis in nano research

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Angela Nieto is currently Full Professor at Institute of Neurosciences (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante, Spain. President of the International Society for Developmental Biology until 2022. She coordinates the “Cellular plasticity and brain repair” programme at the Institute of Neurosciences and the CSIC Cancer national hub. After her PhD in 1987 (Madrid) she worked at the Institute for Biomedical Research also in Madrid and at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. She joined the Cajal Institute in Madrid in 1993, and since then she has led a research group interested in studying cell plasticity and, in particular, the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT), fundamental during embryonic development for the formation of multiple tissues and organs. The main contribution of her group has been the impact that the reactivation of this developmental program has in adult disease, including cancer progression and organ degeneration. She is a member of the Academies of Sciences of Europe, France, Spain and Latin-America. Among others, she has received the Ramón y Cajal Spanish National Research Prize; the Mexico Prize in Science and Technology and the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award for Europe.

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• 🏆 Best-ranked talk: Ivan Ciganek (PhD Student, Sanofi R&D & ART ARNm INSERM) – LNPs for primary B-cell engineering via mRNA-CRISPR
• Lucía Sanjurjo Bouza (Junior PI, USC & IDIS) – Advanced mRNA nanocarriers for ex vivo & in vivo T-cell therapy
• Ainhoa González Caelles (PhD, IBEC) – PLGA nanobots for siRNA delivery in bladder cancer

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• Marta Guerra Rebollo (Assistant Professor, IQS-URL) – Polymer-coated AAVs for Duchenne gene therapy
• Ela Cetin (PhD Student, Fraunhofer IZI) – In vivo LNP delivery to bypass ex vivo CAR-T manufacturing
• Victor Puntes (Professor, Vall d’Hebron Institute) – CeO₂ nanoparticles to scavenge ROS and prevent tumour progression

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🏆 Best-ranked talks (ex-aequo):

• Vincenzo Amendola (Professor, University of Padova) – Radiotherapy window expansion with multifunctional gold-alloy nanoparticles
• Inés Rubio Prego (PhD Student, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) – Pre-targeting approach for radiotheragnosis in glioblastoma multiforme

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• Regina Bleul (Group Leader, Fraunhofer IMM) – Continuous manufacturing of nanoformulations and nanotheranostics
• Paolo Bigini (Laboratory Head, Mario Negri Institute) – Tracking liposome and imatinib distribution after nasal administration in a murine model of lung fibrosis
• Marzia Conte (Research Fellow, Politecnico di Torino) – Ultrasound-activated hybrid nanocrystals for pancreatic cancer therapy