ERC Consolidator Grant to Dr. Salvador Pané Vidal
Congratulations to Dr. Pané who was awarded the ERC Consolidator grant for his project "Highly Integrated Nanoscale Robots for Targeted Delivery to the Central Nervous System".
His goal is to one day use tiny robots in the human body, where – remotely controlled using sound waves or magnetic fields – they will be able to move around and dispense medication in precisely the right part of the body. In his ERC project, Pané i Vidal aims to develop porous nanorobots that can be remotely instructed to produce electrical fields. These fields could then be used to open molecular nanovalves in the pores of the robots (to release medication, for example) or to electrically stimulate neurons or other cells. In the future, these microrobots could be used in the spinal cord or the optical nerve. Pané i Vidal already received an ERC Starting Grant for the development of microrobots four years ago.
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