Blaise Pascal Medallists 2013
Blaise Pascal Medals 2013 in Physics
Professor Anne l'Huillier
Professor in Atomic Physics at Lund University (Sweden)
"In recognition of her pioneering experimental and theoretical contributions to attosecond pulse trains using high harmonics, which form the basis of today's successful field of attosecond science."
Title of the talk: “From extreme nonlinear optics to ultrafast atomic physics”
An abstract will be published very soon.
Blaise Pascal Medals 2013 in Materials Science
Professor Maurizio Prato
Professor at University of Trieste (Italy)
“In recognition for his outstanding studies in functionalized fullerenes and carbon nanotubes with applications to medicinal chemistry and materials science”
Title of the talk: “Novel functional materials designed to solve old problems ”
Many problems of our times have not been solved yet, mostly due to the complexity of the problems and their difficult solutions. New approaches and new materials are therefore needed, to produce breakthroughs and generate new hopes. Among the wide range of novel materials available today, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) stand as unique materials for fundamental research and potential applications. During this talk, we will report on the most recent advances in our group, which have led to several interesting applications in many fields. For instance, functionalized carbon nanotubes stimulate neuronal communication or can serve as carriers for innovative drug delivery systems. On the other hand, carbon nanotubes are ideal supports for catalysis in water splitting devices, for the production of hydrogen as a clean source of energy.
Blaise Pascal Medals 2013 in Mathematics
Professor Benoit Perthame
Professor at the University Pierre and Marie Currie (France)
“In recognition for his fundamental contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations and to mathematical biology”
Title of the talk : “Mathematicals Aspects of Tumor Growth and Therapy ”
Models of tumor growth are now commonly used to predict the evolution of the disease. They contain several levels of complexity, both in terms of the biological effects and mechanical or mathematical description. The number os scales, from molecules to the organ and entire body, explains the complexity of the problem.
These models serve to predict the evolution of cancers in medical treatments, to understand the biological effects that permit tumor growth, the optimal therapy and, in some cases, their implication in therapies failure (resistance).
In this talk I shall give a general presentation of the field and focus on two aspects. I shall firstly present a multiscale approach to mechanical models of tumor growth and secondly, models of resistance to therapy and treatment optimization
Blaise Pascal Medals 2013 in Biomedical Sciences
Professor Vladimir Torchilin
Professor ph Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University of Boston (USA) and Director of
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, and of the Center for Translational
Cancer Nanomedicine, Northeastern University of Boston (USA)
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“In recognition of his outstanding contributions into various areas of biomedical sciences, experimental pharmacology, nanomedicine, and pharmaceutical biotechnology”
Title of the talk: "The next step in drug delivery : getting inside cells and to individual organelles"
The combination of targeted delivery of drug-loaded pharmaceutical nanocarriers to target cells and their further delivery inside cells might significantly improve the efficiency of therapy. Intracellular drug delivery with subsequent organelle targeting opens new opportunities in overcoming problems associated with multiple pathologies including lysosomal storage diseases and multidrug resistance (MDR) tumors. Thus, the next generation of specifically functionalized drug delivery systems should be able to bring drugs to individual organelles, such as mitochondria or lysosomes, inside cells. Clearly, this challenge will require some novel approaches in engineering multifunctional nanomedicines, capable of accumulating in the target tissue, penetrating inside cells, bypassing lysosomes, and bringing pharmaceuticals to required intracellular compartments.
Blaise Pascal Medals 2013 in Engineering
Professor Dmitry klimov
Director of the Inst. for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Ac. of Sciences (from 1990 to 2004)
“In recognition of his outstanding contributions in the design of innovative gyroscopic navigation systems”
Title of the talk: "The Hemispherical Resonator Gyro"
An abstrat will be published very soon