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Dr. Cédric Labay presented in the World Biomaterials Congress 2020 (WBC 2020) some of the last published works and advances in plasma-treated biopolymers of the ERC APACHE team summed up in a poster entitled “Cold Atmospheric Plasma Generation of Reactive Species in Hydrogel-Forming Natural Biopolymers”.

Dr. Inès Hamouda has been the first PhD. student from the APACHE project to complete her PhD. Thesis on "Synthesis and characterization of plasma-treated liquids and hydrogels for bone cancer therapy", co-directed by Dr. Cristina Canal and Dr. Cèdric Labay.

We are excited to share our latest paper on “Osteosarcoma tissue-engineered model challenges oxidative stress therapy revealing promoted cancer stem cell properties”, recently published at Free Radical Biology and Medicine journal.

The special Issue "Application of Plasma Technology in Bioscience and Biomedicine" has been published by Applied Sciences, in the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering". The issue, edited by Dr. Daniela Boehm (TU Dublin) and Dr. Cristina Canal (BBT-UPC) aims to cover the breadth and diversity of plasma technology in bioscience and biomedicine and provide a snapshot of some of the exciting research currently happening in this field.

Dr. Cristina Canal has received the ICREA Acadèmia Award 2020 for her outstanding research.

Insight about the Fundamentals of Plasma-Liquid Interactions Published on Analytical Chemistry. Check it out: F. Tampieri, M.P. Ginebra, C. Canal. Quantification of Plasma-Produced Hydroxyl Radicals in Solution and their Dependence on the pH. Anal. Chem., 2021. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04906

M. Mateu et al. just published a new Review on "Cold Atmospheric Plasma: A New Strategy Based Primarily on Oxidative Stress for Osteosarcoma Therapy" at the Journal of Clinical Medicine (Open Access).

Pharmaceutical and medical products lead the patented technologies in Spain during 2020. Dr. Cristina Canal, with two oncology related new patents derived from the APACHE project, explains why at La1's public National Spanish channel Newscast.

The PlasmaMED lab and APACHE's research, part of La Metro's TV program on April 15th, 2021, at La 2.

UPC tops the ranking of universities in terms of patent applications in Spain, according to data from the European Patent Office (EPO).