Helena S. Azevedo - Self-assembling Biomaterials: Molecular Design, Characterization and Application in Biology and Medicine

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Helena S. Azevedo

Ricardo M.P. da Silva

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Sergio Acosta BIOFORGE, CIBER-BBN, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

Lorenzo Albertazzi Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Caleb F. Anderson Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

Eric A. Appel

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Elif Arslan Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Lindsay Avolio Department of Biology, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States

Helena S. Azevedo School of Engineering and Materials Science, Institute of Bioengineering, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Maarten H. Bakker Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Thierry Benvegnu Ecole Nationale Suprieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR), UMR CNRS 6226, Rennes, France

Zubair H. Bhuiyan Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

Ronit Bitton Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Job Boekhoven Department of Chemistry and Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

Alexandra Brito

3Bs Research Group, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineeringand Regenerative Medicine, Guimares, Portugal

ICVS/3B'sPT Government Associate Laboratory, Guimares, Portugal

Dominic W.P. Collis School of Engineering and Materials Science, Institute of Bioengineering, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Martin Conda-Sheridan Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States

Honggang Cui

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

Department of Oncology and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

Patricia Y.W. Dankers Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Marwa El Yaagoubi Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Natalia Feiner-Gracia Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Ronit Freeman Department of Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Fabrizio Gelain

Center for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering (CNTE), Hospital Niguarda C Granda, Milan, Italy

ISBREMIT, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Raphael K. Grtsch Department of Chemistry and Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

Mustafa O. Guler Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Marcos Herrero BIOFORGE, CIBER-BBN, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

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Joo Conde School of Engineering and Materials Science, Institute of Bioengineering, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

K. H. Aaron Lau Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Jie Li Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, United States

William R. Lindemann Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

Dennis W.P.M. Lwik Systems Chemistry, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands