Monica Dettin
Monica Dettin is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova. Her teaching activity is carried out in the area of organic chemistry and chemistry of biological molecules. Research interests are focused on the following areas: synthesis and characterization of biologically active biopolymers; studies on structure-activity relationship in biopolymers; conformational and structural studies; selective and covalent functionalization of biomaterials with synthetic bioactive molecules; interaction between biomaterials and biological tissues; peptide mimicry of adhesive proteins and growth factors; scaffolds of self-assembling peptides; chemoselective ligation.
Andrea Bagno
Andrea Bagno is Associate Professor of Industrial Bioengineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Padova. After the degree in Chemical Engineering (1991), he had the PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1995. Research interests focused on the interaction between biomaterials and biological tissue, and on biomaterial surface treatment and characterization. Other research activities concern: the biomechanical characterization of native and decellularized pericardium for the production of biological heart valves; the early detection of mechanical heart valves failure by phonocardiographic means; the assessment of skin microcirculation by means of Laser Doppler Fluxmetry.
Annj Zamuner
Fixed-term researcher (RTDa) at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, of the University of Padua (UNIPD). She received her Ph.D. degree, with the “Doctor Europeaus” mention, in Material Engineering, in 2019. She possesses more than ten years of experience in the engineering of bioactive peptide sequences for the development of innovative biomaterials. She spent two periods abroad as a visitor researcher at the Tissue Engineering and Biophotonics Division of King’s College London and the Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica of Valencia. To date, she has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals.
Martina Todesco
Martina Todesco received the B.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering and the M.S. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Padova, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. She is currently research fellow at the University of Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering. She performed her M.S. thesis as a fellow at IRRIV (International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza), the focus of the research was about blood-material interaction and the characterization of purification efficiency of a hemodialyzer for the continuous renal replacement therapy.
Cristian Balducci
cristian.balducci@phd.unipd.it
Cristian Balducci was born in Rimini on 25 February 1998. In July 2020, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bologna, and in March 2023 his Master’s degree in Bioengineering at the University of Padua. His master’s thesis at the Industrial Engineering Department’s Laboratory of Chemical Bioengineering involved developing and testing a new technique to improve the bioactivity of membranes currently used in Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR), through functionalizations with biomaterials and peptides. He began his Ph.D. in October 2023 with the Chemical Bioengineering group, further exploring diverse methods to enhance these membranes.
Elena Zeni
Elena Zeni received her degree (MSc) in Bioengineering in 2022 at the University of Padua. During her master’s thesis at the Chemical Bioengineering group, she worked on electrospun partially oxidized PVA matrices and chitosan sponges functionalized with self-assembling peptides for neural tissue regeneration. In October 2022, she started a Ph.D. focused on the development of self-assembling peptide vectors for mRNA delivery.
Laura Furlan
Laura Furlan achieved her master degree in Bioengineering in 2023 at the University of Padua. During her master thesis she worked with Chemical Bioengineering group in order to functionalize tunicate nanocellulose with bioactive peptides for bone tissue engineering. In 2024, she started a research grant with the task of developing biomimetic nanocellulose matrices for biomedical applications.
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