Aims:

• identify medical needs from applications in clinical use and translate the medical need into a scientific question
• understand opportunities and obstacles of nanocarriers in the complex biological surrounding of blood plasma and in whole organisms
• to develop a process which uses pharmaceutical grade excipients that can be transformed into a good-manufacturing-production (GMP) process
• develop assays for testing of nanocarriers during production and for a batch-to-batch release
• perform the crucial in vivo studies for effectiveness and toxicology
• transform this towards a process performed in a small-medium enterprise (SME)

How to become a member of CTN?

CTN is in the process of becoming an interdisciplinary working group (“Interdisziplinärer Arbeitskreis – IAK”) according to the rules of the JGU. According to these we will form the consortium of the CTN. If you want to express your interest of becoming a member of CTN please contact us by sending your statement of interest to fichter@uni-mainz.de (Dr. Michael Fichter).

Speakers of the CTN:

• Prof. Dr. Volker Mailänder, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Mainz
• Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester, Physical Chemistry of Polymers, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research), Mainz
• Prof. Dr. Stephan Grabbe, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Mainz