Nano4Bio

Company Purpose
The Nano4Bio idea consists in the characterization, production and commercialisation of SMART nano-structured/patterned surfaces useful for the selection, growth and differentiation of many cell types in culture (i.e. embryonic cells, stem cells or neurons).
As a second step, our nano-structured bio-supports will be developed as biosensors (based on organic semiconductor-coated silicon technology).

WHAT
Nano4Bio is a hi-tech enterprise, with excellent know-how, that operates in the nano-biotechnology field. Nano4Bio is developing (and will commercialize soon) highly innovative supports for cell culturing and biosensoring.
Our products are new SMART ready-to-use and –on demand supports for cell cultures, addressing to life science research (i.e. stem cell, tissue regeneration), analytical-diagnostic and clinical field as well as to pharmaceutical and medical device industry.

HOW
By controlling the support characteristics at nanometer-scale, Nano4Bio will provide new substrates for a “celluloteca”, already able to discern cell characteristics and to influence cellular responses at our guise.
Such and other aspects aimed Nano4Bio to achieve breakthroughs with respect to the state of the art. In fact, the availability of such support will increase biomedical research results and biomedical device production, improving our life in the next future.

WHO
The Nano4Bio team is composed of 7 young women researchers, with multidisciplinary and high expertise in different disciplines: physics, chemistry, material sciences, molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, marketing and comunication.
Our nano-bio-technological idea and team sprouted during the european project BIODOT, financed by the European Community in 2006.

Team:
Eva Bystrenova, Beatrice Chelli, Eleonora Da Pozzo, Adina N. Lazar, Sabrina Morbidelli, Antonietta Rizzo, Ilaria Tonazzini

Advisory Board:
Dr. Fabio Biscarini (ISMN-CNR Bologna), Dr. Fabrizio Bugamelli (Almacube Bologna), Prof. Claudia Martini (University of Pisa), Dr. Cino Matacotta (Scriba Nanotechnology srl)

WHERE

Past events
Nano4Bio project was presented at 3rd Exhibition of Industrial Research Research to Business, Bologna 3-4 May 2007.
It is a winner of the Start Cup- Bologna 2007, business plan competition organized by the University of Bologna and Emilia Romagna Region.
It is a winner of the business plan competition Mind the bridge 2007-2008, organized by the American Embassy in Italy in collaboration with P4G, 1GN, BAIA and SVIEC.

Links:
www.mindthebridge.org/
www.startcup.com/files/vincitori2007.pdf
www.bo.camcom.it/intranet/ALTRI-SERV/AUTORIZZAZ/Bologna-ec2/N-5-anno-2/15.pdf
www.unipi.it/ateneo/comunica/comunicati/mind_the-bridge_web.htm_cvt.htm
www.venetonanotech.it/files/index.cfm?id_rst=31&id_elm=2358
www.intoscana.it/intoscana/imprese_in_toscana.jsp?id_categoria=131&id=150679&id_sottocategoria=1337&language=it
www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=4371.php
www.ermesimprese.it/wcm/imprenditoriafemminile/canali/inchieste/forum_imprenditrici/allegati/BYSTRENOVA,_RIZZO_-_NANO4BIO.pdf
www.cnr.it/cnr/news/CnrNews?IDn=1788
www.repubblica.it/2008/03/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/italiani-silicon-valley/italiani-silicon-valley/italiani-silicon-valley.html