Nanomedicines for Breast Cancer Theranostics

Dr. Nanasaheb Thorat is an outstanding Experienced Researcher currently working as a Marie Curie Fellow Research Scientist at the University of Oxford, Medical Science Division. Dr. Thorat is a two-time winner of the World's most prestigious fellowship, i.e. Marie Curie Fellowships and also working as an evaluation panel member of the Marie Curie Fellowships applications, for life and engineering sciences since the year 2019. Dr. Thorat has published 55 peer-reviewed journal research papers and articles, 1 international and European patent filled, 2 European innovations/inventions registered, 5 Books, 10 book chapters, presented 5 Keynote Speech, 20 invited lectures, and 5 oral presentations at prestigious scientific peer-conferences in Singapore, France, Germany, USA, Ireland, Poland, South Korea, and India, received international acclaims and awards for research contribution, generated research fund in excess of > €750,000, supervised students/junior researchers and actively participated in outreach and scientific dissemination for the service of the wider community. Dr. Thorat is the first Indian awardee of the European Commissions' Innovation Radar “Grand Prix of the Innovation Radar Prize 2020” and many other national and international acclaims on his name. Dr. Thorat is also the winner of other prestigious fellowships including, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship in Japan (2017), PBC-Outstanding Fellowship, Israel (2016), and also worked as Senior Research Fellow at Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, South Korea (2014-2015). At the University of Oxford, He is working in the Medical Science Division jointly with the Engineering Science Division. His current research work involves designing new light-activated nanomedicine therapy and Raman imaging techniques for brain cancer of pediatric patients.

Joanna Bauer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland. Her research focuses on multidisciplinary biomedical engineering projects related to personalized and preventive medicine, nano-biomaterials synthesis, characterization and functionalization, biomedical optics using visible and infrared.imaging, as well as image analysis and pattern recognition.