M2lab has together with several close collaborators received a framework grant from The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) for the project “HEALiX: Advanced Wound Care Materials for Non-Healing Wounds”. The projects will be led together with with Prof. Torbjörn Bengtsson (ÖrU), Dr. Johan Junker (LiU/KMC RÖ), and Kristiina Oksaman (LTU). Non-healing wounds leads to large suffering and are an enormous burden to the healthcare system. In a typical hospital setting, 25-40% of all beds are occupied by patients with wounds, and more than half of the health care resources in the outpatient setting are spent on wound treatment. HEALiX will bring together clinical and industrial wound care experts and leading academic researchers to address this huge medical and societal problem. Our aim is to develop a new generation of advanced but affordable multifunctional wound dressing materials that will give clinicians new and better means to go beyond wound management and instead focus on wound healing. We will jointly develop and evaluate advanced nanocellulose-based materials for moist wound healing and novel strategies to combine these materials with robust embedded diagnostic capabilities to facilitate treatment optimization. Moreover, strategies to combine nanocellulose wound dressing with peptide-based antimicrobial compounds will be explored to suppress infection and eradicate biofilms in non-healing wounds.
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Thuy Tran receives prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
Thuy will join as a MSCA Fellow in May and will work on nanoplasmonic biosensors for biological drugs
M2Lab receives funding from the Carl Trygger Foundation
The Laboratory of Molecular Materials has received a generous grant from the Carl Trygger Foundation for purchasing of a new bioprinter.
New paper on 3D hydrogels for liver-on-chip applications
Read our new open access paper on 3D hydrogels for liver-on-chip applications here!
New paper on triggered liposome release
C. Skyttner, R. Selegård, J. Larsson, C. Aronsson, K. Enander, D. Aili, “Sequence and Length Optimization of Membrane Active Coiled Coils for Triggered Liposome Release”, BBA Biomembranes, 2018, In press, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2018.11.005 (PDF)
New paper on self-assembly of peptide-LCO hybrids
Rouhbakhsh, D. Aili, E. Martinsson, A. Svärd, M. Bäck, M. R. Housaindokht, K. P. R. Nilsson, R. Selegård, ” Self-Assembly of a Structurally Defined Chiro-Optical Peptide–Oligothiophene Hybrid Material”, ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 15066–15075.
The paper is available OA here!
Congratulations to Dr. Camilla Skyttner
Camilla Skyttner successfully defended her PhD thesis last Friday! The thesis “Peptide-Liposome Model Systems for Triggered Release” can be downloaded here.
