DREAM-Nano

Overview

Designing Responsive Advanced Materials for Nanomedicines (DREAM Nano) is a Una Europa Seed Funded initiative uniting experts across Europe to develop low-cost, sustainable nanomaterials for biomedical applications. Our aim is to build a collaborative, interdisciplinary team to tackle challenges in nanomedicine, with a focus on accessibility, diagnostics, and cancer therapy.

Working Groups

WG1	Design of nanomaterials
WG2	Biomedical applications
WG3	Knowledge-transfer
WG4	Dissemination

Nanoparticles Sythesis in Focus

DREAM-Nano PhD Workshop

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Mixed-format training workshop combining in-person and online participation. The final programme will be published in the coming weeks.

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Location

SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY, COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID (UCM), MADRID, SPAIN

Date

September 17th, 2025

Registration Deadline

July, 30th, 2025

Content

Including discussions, presentations, and experiment videos—will be streamed live or made available online (more details coming soon!).

Audience

The PhD workshop is free and open to PhD students.

Note that the attendace to the afternoon lab session is limited to 20 PhD students, with priority for Una Europa participants.

Topic Focus

Nanomedicine, responsive materials, and AFM/SPM techniques for bioapplications

*Session I is coorganized with NexMPI Cost Action (CA23132) and Session II is coorganized by Nanocare 2.0.

* Contact (opens in a new window)hgavilan@ucm.es for further question.

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Workshop

On September 17th, 2025, the School of Chemical Sciences at Complutense University of Madrid successfully hosted the Future Materials and Nanomedicine Symposium, featuring keynote talks, a poster session, and hands-on training on nanomaterials. The program covered topics from advanced nanomaterial design to translational research and entrepreneurship, and the event concluded successfully with active participation from both academic and industry speakers.

Research Alliance

The DREAM-Nano project is supported by a core group of four European universities and strengthened by collaborations with nine additional research and industry partners from across Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Together, they form a diverse, interdisciplinary network that combines expertise in nanomaterials, biomedical applications, and advanced characterization, fostering innovation and global knowledge exchange in the field of nanomedicine.

Una Europa Partners

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Meet Our Project Team

Helena Gavilán

Coordinator

Helena Gavilán is a tenure-track Ramón y Cajal researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, specializing in magnetic nanomaterials and serving as the coordinator of the DREAM-Nano project.

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Brian Rodriguez

Academic Lead

Professor Brian Rodriguez is a leading nanoscience expert at University College Dublin, specializing in advanced atomic force microscopy techniques and biomaterials, and serves as UCD’s academic lead in the DREAM‑Nano project.

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Rubén Miranda Carreño

Environmental Chemical Engineer specialized in wastewater treatment, waste valorization and circular economy and the development more sustainable industrial processes. At present, my research deals with agri-food waste valorization.

Greta Patzke

Academic Lead

Professor Greta R. Patzke is an expert in transition metal-based materials for energy and environmental applications with special experience in the design of functional oxo clusters and nanoparticles. She serves as a PI for the University of Zurich in the DREAM-Nano project.

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Ewelina Lipiec

Academic Lead

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Sneha Swaroop

Dr. Sneha Swaroop is a cancer biologist at the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, University of Bradford, specialising in cancer stem cells and targeted therapies, with a focus on ovarian, breast and prostate cancer.

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Paula C. Angelomé

PhD in Chemistry, specialized in materials chemistry. Focused on the development of mesoporous oxide thin films and nanoparticles, metallic nanoparticles, and composites containing both. Experienced in the characterization of these materials and their applications in adsorption, sensing, and catalysis.

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Lucía Gutiérrez

Currently a Senior Scientist at INMA, their work includes nanoparticle synthesis, toxicity and biodistribution studies, and developing AC magnetic susceptibility methods for detection in complex systems.

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Sara Garcia Linares

Sara Garcia Linares is an Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, specializing in the study of structure-function relationships of toxic proteins with potential biotechnological applications.

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Dawid Lupa

Dawid Lupa is a post-doc researcher at Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University. His research interests include applying molecular (nano)spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy to investigate the physicochemical properties, conformations, and interactions of biologically important macromolecules such as polysaccharides, lipids, polypeptides, and proteins.

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Fernando Martín

Fernando Martín is a PhD student from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). His research focuses on the development of multimetallic nanoparticles and their subsequent application in biomedicine.

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Caroline Maake

Professor Caroline Maake is an anatomist at the University of Zurich’s Faculty of Medicine, specializing in photosensitizer and sonosensitizer research.

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Cristiano Giordani

Cristiano Giordani is a full professor at the Physics Institute of the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. He is a biophysicist and focuses his research mainly on the study of the interaction between small molecules of pharmaceutical interest (drugs, peptides, etc.) and artificial models of cellular membranes.

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Álvaro Martínez del Pozo

UCM Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology who got his Ph D in 1986. Two major scientific interests: (1) understanding how water-soluble proteins interact with lipidic membranes and (2) turning toxins into beneficial biotecnological tools.

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Carlos Montero

Carlos Montero is CEO at Heium3 Technologies & Consulting SL, company specialized on magnetic field generation, material characterization systems (AFM), material generation (ALD), vacuum creation and control, cryogenic and gas analysis.

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