Outreach Activities

Over the past two months, Vanessa Valdiglesias and Natalia Fernández from NanoToxGen visited several high schools and vocational training centres as part of the UDC’s scientific outreach program (Divulgación Científica UDC). During these visits, a diverse group of students had the opportunity to attend an informative talk on toxicology, the science of poisons. This initiative …

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«Dare to Research with Them!» («Atrévete a pescudar con elas!») is an initiative of the Scientific and Cultural Outreach Unit of the University of A Coruña (UDC) to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11th). Researchers from the NanoToxGen group enjoyed participating in several videos to present their scientific and …

Members of the NanoToxGen group are involved in the “Atrévete a pescudar con elas!” program, 2025. Leer más »

Natalia Fernández and Vanessa Valdiglesias from NanoToxGen lab visited the CPR Salesianos San Juan Bosco school last week. They enjoyed the time with a group of preschool students (5–6-year-old) discovering the rainbow colours and showing how to be scientists. Thanks to the center, to the teacher and, particularly, to the little researchers for the great …

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Several students from the IES Alfonso X O Sabio (Cambre) center visited the NanoToxGen laboratory at the CICA during last year. They learned about the synthesis, characterization and testing of compounds with potential biomedical applications that we are currently carried out in our group, kindly explained by Dr. Avecilla. They showed high interested in the …

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Our PhD researcher Assia Touzani presented some of her Thesis results at the last CICA Happy Hour session last week in a talk entitled “Platinum nanoparticles: evaluation of their cytotoxic and genotoxic potential for a safe use”. She performed a great dissertation on the high potential of platinum nanoparticles for biomedical applications and the lack …

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NanoToxGen researchers, Vanessa Valdiglesias and Natalia Fernández, shared the last results of our ongoing projects on nontoxicity assessment on the Nanoscience and Advanced Materials area seminars, monthly organized by the CICA research center. Natalia Fernández Bertólez was in charge of the first seminar of the group: “Biocompatibility of CeO2 nanoparticles for application in diagnosis and …

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Past April, 12th and 13th, the II Spanish Economic Forum ‘La Galicia que viene’ took place in the Palexco building in A Coruña. This symposium was aimed to analyse the challenges Galicia currently addresses, including politics, economics, Galician health, industry and technology or the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, and it had the participation of …

Participation in the II Spanish Economic Forum Leer más »