Manaca officially launched: kick-off meeting

The MaNaCa project "Magnetic Nanohybrids for Cancer Therapy" officially started at the beginning of October 2019.  The consortium held their kick-off meeting on the 4 October 2019 at Universitaet Duisburg-Essen. All project partners were in attendance and, during the day's event, gathered to discuss the early implementation stages of the project and to plan upcoming MaNaCa activities. 

The project consortium consists of:

Institute for Physical Research of National Academy of Sciences (IPR-NAS), Armenia (coordinator)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece
University of Duisburg – Essen (UDE), Germany
Intelligentsia Consultants Sàrl (INT), Luxembourg

The meeting provided an opportunity for the project's work package leaders to discuss the project's objectives and secondment plans. The event was also combined with the workshop SpinS 2019 hosted by UDE, which featured topics related to the goals of the project and where several partners were speakers.

Overall, the meeting proved a very successful start for the MaNaCa project.

A press release published by UDE announcing the launch of the project can be found here (in German).