Giulia Mesiano is now a Postdoc researcher at the TrojaNanoHorse lab. After graduating in Medical Biotechnology, she obtained a PhD in Biomedical Science and Human Oncology at Medical Oncology Laboratory in Candiolo Cancer Institute – IRCCS.

During PhD she was the winner of a two- year fellowship granted by AIRC for the project “Identification and killing of cancer stem cells in mesenchymal tumors by immunotherapy with CIK cells”.

She continued as Postdoc researcher at Experimental cell therapy laboratory, focalizing on integrated immunotherapy of refractory solid tumors (sarcoma, melanoma); Preclinical study to investigate the potential efficacy of T-cells as adoptive immunotherapy and their synergism with conventional drugs (chemo and molecular targeted therapy) and Interferons.

Silvia Appendino received both her MS degree and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, respectively in 2004 and 2009. She has always worked in the field of exoskeletons for neurorehabilitation, at the Politecnico di Torino until 2010 and in IIT from 2011 to 2015. She is author of several scientific papers and co-author of two patents related exoskeletons for rehabilitation. Since 2013, she has focused on funding requests, writing project proposals for H2020 and for regional and national competitions.

She has joined the TNH Lab at the very beginning, managing administrative issues, supplies, financials, social media and collaborating in project proposals. She is dissemination and data manager for the MIMIC-KeY FET-OPEN project.

Marco Carofiglio graduated in Physical Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino in 2017 and got his MSc degree in Nanotechnologies for ICTs in 2019 from the same university. During his Master thesis work, he focused on the development of ZnO-based piezoelectric smart scaffolds for the stimulation of biological tissues. He is currently attending a PhD course in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino where he is working on the synthesis and characterization of doped ZnO nanoparticles and substrates for biomedical applications. His research work also includes the use of oxides for catalytic water splitting .

Veronica Vighetto is part of TNH team as Chemical Engineering PhD student. Earlier on, she graduated in Physical Engineering, and obtained a Master degree in Nanotechnologies for ICTs at Politecnico di Torino.

Her Masters Thesis was developed in the Department of Nanomedicine at the Houston Methodist Research Institute (USA), with different biological environments as cancer cells, fecundated chicken eggs and mice.

Now, her PhD work is focused on the evaluation of in vitro test for cytotoxicity and internalization of different nanoconstructs, on both adhesion and suspension cells lines. She is also interested in understanding and investigating chemical-physical properties of nanoparticles and how these aspects can influence the interaction with biological systems, as living cancer cells, especially when the aim of this nanotool is related to therapeutic and diagnostic applications for cancer therapy.

Giada Rosso has a MS degree in Biomedical engineering, with specialization in Bionanotechniologies and started a PhD in Chemical Engineering. She started to work for the TNH lab during her Master’s thesis on the development of mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug delivery, to specifically address Multiple Myeloma.

Marzia Conte achieved her Bachelor and Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, and carried out a Master Thesis in the TrojaNanoHorse Lab of prof. Cauda, during which she took part to a project founded by the European Community under Grant Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions obtained by Dr. Sugata Barui, a former post-doc of the research group.

In the course of her thesis work she focused on studying and addressing pancreatic cancer and its tumour microenvironment through a multifunctional nanoconstruct based on doped Zinc Oxide nanoparticles, whose process and design she followed since the very beginning (chemical synthesis, characterizations, chemotherapeutic drugs uptake, lipid coating), especially in the TNH chemical lab.

Afterwards, she joined the lab as a PhD student in Chemical Engineering and spent the first six months of scholarship doing an extensive training in the cellular lab, in order to be capable of applying firsthand the results of her research by achieving full working autonomy. In the meantime, she further investigated and thoroughly studied pancreatic cancer and lipidic coatings, and developed a new formulation of lipids to cover zinc oxide nanoparticles, so as to provide them with biostability and biomimicry.

Her PhD project focuses on the application of these nanoconstructs on pancreatic cancer cells, eventually leading to a multimodal therapy which will include sonodynamics and is meant to overcome the limitations of conventional therapies, with the prospect of future in vivo application.

Nicolò Maria Percivalle obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering and his Master’s degree in Bionanotechnologies (Biomedical Engineering) at Politecnico di Torino.

He joined the TNH Lab in October 2020 during his Master thesis project, whose aim was the development of an innovative theranostic nanoconstruct for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

He has been working in the lab as a fellow, and has now started his PhD. His research focuses on sono/photo-degradation and ROS generation enhanced by doped and undoped ZnO nanoparticles.

Maria Cristina Ruffa is currently working as Research Fellow at Politecnico of Turin. ​

She achieved her Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering with specialization in Biomechanical at Politecnico of Turin.​

In September 2021, during her Master’s thesis, CRRT research project was born. Her research focused on optimizing Extracorporeal Blood Purification Therapy in the Intensive Care, particularly constructing and validating a system that allows monitoring clinical efficiency of these treatments.​