Featured projects

The network is currently involved in at least four innovative, global nanomedicine research projects, which you can read more about below.

2D Materials for Next Generation Healthcare Technologies (2D-Health)

2D-Health is a five-year cross-faculty project based at The University of Manchester, coordinated by Professor Kostas Kostarelos.

The aim of this project is to explore the use of two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, to improve healthcare in the areas of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and dementia.

The project comprises nine academics and four industrial champions working across four themes. It is hoped that working collaboratively with industrial partners will facilitate rapid clinical translation. Additionally, ethicists and regulators will provide input to ensure responsible and societally-acceptable innovations.

This project is one of four healthcare technology research programmes awarded by the EPSRC.

European Graphene Flagship

The Graphene Flagship is a future and emerging technology flagship by the European Commission, which represents a form of joint, coordinated research on an unprecedented scale, forming Europe's biggest ever research initiative.

The Graphene Flagship’s mission is to bring together academic and industrial researchers and take graphene and related materials from academic laboratories into society, revolutionise multiple industries and create economic growth and new jobs in Europe. The University is one of the largest academic partners in the Graphene Flagship participating in various work packages.

PathChooser

The PathChooser ITN programme aims to equip the next generation of translational scientists with the tools to develop therapies for a range of currently intractable and economically unviable diseases (e.g. diseases affecting a limited population).

Nanomedicine offers capability to significantly change the course of treatment for life-threatening diseases via new multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral strategies.

NANOSOLUTIONS

The NANOSOLUTIONS project is a worldwide collaboration of 34 institutes, including The University of Manchester to investigate the mechanisms and effects of engineered nanomaterial (ENM) interactions with living systems and the environment.

The overarching aim of the consortium is to provide a means of developing a safety classification for ENM based on an understanding of their interactions with living organisms at molecular, cellular and organism levels.