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Carlos Lodeiro awarded Excellent Poster Presentation Prize

31-03-2015

The poster “Imaging Properties and Cytotoxicity studies in MCF-7 Human Breast Cancer Cells using a novel Quinoline Molecular Probe and the derived functionalized Gold Nanoparticles” by Carlos Lodeiro, co-head of the Bioscope group at UCIBIO and Professor at the Chemistry Department - FCT/UNL, was selected for the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 3rd Nanomedicine for Imaging and Treatment Conference. This conference was hosted by the CEDARS SINAI Medical Center of Los Angeles, California, USA and took place from 12 to 14 of March.

Work presented by Carlos Lodeiro at the conference has been recently published on the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry: “Revisiting the use of gold and silver functionalised nanoparticles as colorimetric and fluorometric chemosensors for metal ions” (Volume 212, June 2015, Pages 297–328).