Outreach activities

ARGENT Early-Stage Researchers have engaged in different types of outreach activities, promoting awareness in different countries.

  • Visit to the UK Parliament
    Sophie Grellet (ESR12) had the opportunity to meet several Members of Parliament in London at the occasion of the Voice of the Future (VOF) event. The Royal Society of Biology, taking forward its Royal Charter duty 'to serve the public benefit', has worked with the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee and other science organisations, in order to organise this regular event.
    Sophie asked the MPs about their ethical point of view on the use of nanotechnologies.

  • Genesis Care Medical Centre, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, UK
    Sophie Grellet (ESR12) is currently working with Genesis Care Medical Centre at Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, UK. With the kind help of all the radiotherapy team, who made this work possible, she is able to use their facilities and irradiate different samples following a treatment plan similar to the one use for patients.
    Within this collaboration, Sophie presented her work to a group of medical physicists which has been a good opportunity to interact and discuss with practitioners.

  • Leighton Bizzard Primary School, Peterborough, UK
    Four ARGENT ESRs visited Leighton Bizzard primary school to introduce the children to the world of research. It was a very good experience to discover that already at a very young age, you can have a lot of interests from these potential future researchers.

  • "Fête de la Science" at the Paris Sud University in Orsay, France
    Marta Bolsa Ferruz (ESR1) and Vladimir Ivosev (ESR2) represented the ITN ARGENT at the 25th edition of "la Fête de la Science" (Science Festival) in France, from October 8th to 16th, 2016. Organized by the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, this event regrouped over 3000 scientific manifestations all over France. Free-of-charge access to entertainment activities, expositions, debates and scientific initiatives was given to a wide public of all ages, with the aim of spreading and promoting the interest in science and making it more accessible and understandable.

    ITN ARGENT researchers welcomed the visitors in one of their laboratories at ISMO (Orsay Institute of Molecular Science) and presented their research topic, "Nanoparticles and Hadrontherapy", via two different presentations adapted to the age of the public.

  • "Science Uncovered", Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK
    Within the framework of the European Researchers Night, ESR Soraia Rosa participated in the Science Uncovered event held in the Ulster Museum in Belfast. This event was directed towards the general public to promote science and cancer research, in particular. All these outreach activities allow the students to bring increased awareness of cancer research importance and to build a bridge between the different fields of research.

  • The EuroScience Open Forum, Manchester, UK
    ITN ARGENT ESRs attended the EuroScience Open Forum in Manchester in July 2016. The event is held every 2 years, and this time, ITN ARGENT took the opportunity to present the work being done within the network and interact with various stakeholders as well as the general public.

  • Presentations during an internal day of CNRS-ISMO
    Marta Bolsa (ESR1) and Vladimir Ivosev (ESR2) made a presentation of their respective work in the project during an internal day of CNRS-Ismo lab dedicated to the PhD students.

  • Presentation at the COST MP1203 meeting in Amsterdam
    Marta Bolsa (ESR1) participated in the COST MP1203 meeting in Amsterdam on April 11th and 12th: Theranostic, the integration of therapeutics and diagnostic. She made an oral presentation of 30 minutes “Nanoparticles: exquisite tools to improve radiation therapy” to promote her work and the project.

  • Seminar at the University of Paris Sud
    Marta Bolsa (ESR1) presented a seminar at the University of Paris Sud on January 11th 2016, about her work on the project. Numerous researchers and students from several labs in the Paris area attended the presentation.

  • Abstracts for the day of doctoral school of the University Paris Saclay
    For the day of the doctoral school of the University Paris Saclay, Marta Bolsa (ESR1) submitted an abstract named "Toxicity evaluation of nanoparticles on proteins using Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism". Vladimir Ivosev (ESR2) will also present his poster related to the abstract "Uptake dynamics and intracellular localization of small gold nanoparticles in glioblastoma, cervical and prostate cancer cell lines".

  • Activities of the group for the "Fête de la Science"
    Marta Bolsa (ESR1) contributed to preparing the activities of the group for the “Fête de la Science” (October 2015), a French fair dedicated to the promotion of Sciences that is addressed to primary and high school students and the general public. She prepared, in particular, an educational comic about the combination of radiation therapy and nanoparticles, an easy way to explain to children the main objective of our research.

  • Comparative analysis of the secondary electron yield from carbon nanoparticles and pure water medium
    The article "Comparative analysis of the secondary electron yield from carbon nanoparticles and pure water medium", published in the European Physical Journal D, was highlighted and got coverage on the EPJ News page. The synopsis of the article was also published in Europhysics News, volume 46, issue 4, pp. 15-16.

  • Poster and presentation at the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology
    Soraia Rosa (ESR7) has presented a poster and made a presentation on radiosensitization by nanoparticles as an assessment for the mandatory PhD courses which were attended by scientists and PhD students working in the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology.

  • Poster at The Open University Poster Competition
    Poster presented by Kaspar Haume (ESR3) to the general audience at The Open University Poster Competition - 9th of June 2015. Won peer review award.

  • Talk at The Open University
    Department of Life, Health, and Chemical Sciences (LHCS) Open Day — 29th of January 2015. In this talk, Kaspar Haume (ESR3), Sophie Grellet (ESR12) and Pablo de Vera Gomis (ESR 8) presented the ARGENT project. The audience was mainly biologists and chemists working in the Life Science department at The Open University.

  • Workshop at the University Paris Saclay
    Fellows organised a Workshop on "Nanoparticles in Medicine at the University Paris Saclay", December 2014, at ORSAY, France. Approximately 80 researchers from outside the consortium participated to this event.

  • Nano-IBCT 2014 conference in Boppard, Germany
    In October 2014, the ARGENT early-stage researchers participated in the 3rd International Conference "Nano-IBCT", hosted in Boppard, Germany, and organized within the framework of the COST Action MP1002 "Nano-scale Insights into Ion Beam Cancer Therapy" (Nano-IBCT). The 13 ESRs attended the meeting as well as most of the ARGENT Full Partners. ESRs presented an ARGENT's poster.