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BYAXON PROJECT JOURNEY FINISHES, BUT THE ROAD DOES NOT END HERE

The research project ByAxon has recently celebrated its last Review Meeting, where the principal investigators of the project met with experts in the field for its final revision. The project, funded by the European Commission, pursues an ambitious goal: the neuronal reconnection by means of an active bypass using nanotechnology. This project is part of the FET Framework -Future and Emerging Technologies- a special programme for basic research projects that pursue a visionary and radically new ideas that, through unexplored collaborations, may open new technological possibilities.

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REGIONAL GOVERNMENT VISITS IMDEA NANOCIENCIA - VISITORS INTRODUCED TO THE BYAXON PROJECT

As part of Science Week, the Madrid Regional Government celebrated their government council meeting at the IMDEA Nanociencia institute. As part of the visit they were shown around the laboratories and had the chance to find out about the various EU funded projects coordinated at the Institute. Prof. Rodolfo Miranda (director of IMDEA Nanociencia and principal investigator of BYAXON)  gave the Ministers a tour of the ByAxon laboratories where they were able to see first-hand the work that is going on in the project.

The visit was covered by multiple media, including a TV clipping in the News of the regional television TeleMadrid. 

LATEST PUBLICATIONS FROM BYAXON: TOWARDS A BYPASS FOR NEURAL RECONNECTION

  
Researchers from the ByAxon Consortium have seen their works published in two international peer-reviewed journals: Advanced Biosystems and Proceedings of the International Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 

Can we dream of speaking with the neurons? Of course yes and it is a step closer thanks to the work of ByAxon researchers. Their publication in Adv. Biosys. journal states the design of flexible thin metal electrodes with nanotopography for an intimate interface with neurons. The electrodes could find application in technologies for neurodegenerative diseases. Neural diseases such as spinal cord injury would be a clear target for the therapeutic application of these electrodes. This work is one of the outcomes of an exciting exchange among material scientists and physicists with biologists and medical doctors from the ByAxon Consortium. Four institutions have participated in this work: IMDEA Nanociencia, ICMM-CSIC, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos de Toledo and SISSA. 

Researchers at SISSA, in collaboration with other research institutions across Europe, synthesized an artificial scaffold based on nanomaterials with the necessary characteristics to guide axonal rewiring. The work has been published by PNAS and has Open Access rights. The combined efforts using nanotechnology and neurobiology might succeed in the design of hybrid microsystems that, once functionally integrated into the nervous tissue, might help in healing the injured spinal cord. Well done Prof. Ballerini et al.!

These works are the outcomes of research efforts towards neural reconnection using nanotechnology of the ByAxon consortium. All of them have Open Access rights and can be downloaded from the repository Zenodo.


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BYAXON AT THE ONLINE MEETING OF THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON E-HEALTH ON SOUTH-WEST GERMANY