Mercoledì 1° luglio, alle ore 11.00, presso l’Aula 21 del Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale (Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13) il Prof. Thimmaiah Govindaraju (Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit and School of Advanced Materials (SAMat), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur P.O., Bengaluru, India) terrà il seminario dal titolo “Biomolecules-derived Biomaterials”.
Biomolecules are promising candidates for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and a wide range of biomedical applications. An ideal biomaterial should be biocompatible, biodegradable, and easily processable into various scaffold formats, preferably under conditions that closely mimic the physiological environment. Furthermore, the rational design and engineering of molecular assemblies through the judicious exploitation of noncovalent interactions to construct tailored molecular and nanoarchitectures using a reductionist approach plays a significant role in advancing biomedical science. In the first part, Prof. Thimmaiah Govindaraju will present silk-derived biomaterials for controlled and pancreas-mimicking insulin delivery, wound healing under diabetic conditions, and applications in skeletal muscle and neuronal tissue engineering. In the second part, he will briefly introduce a novel research theme and umbrella concept, ‘molecular architectonics’, developed in his laboratory to design and construct molecular and nanoarchitectures with applications ranging from biosensing to drug delivery.
