Patrick Couvreur

Nanotechnology: Intelligent Design to Treat Complex Disease

Metallic Colloid Nanotechnology, Applications in Diagnosis and Therapeutics

In recent years the fields of medicine and biology assist to an ever-growing innovation related to the development of nanotechnologies. In the pharmaceutical domain, for example...

Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for drug delivery

Effect of nanoparticle-bound ampicillin on the survival of <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> in mouse peritoneal macrophages

The efficacy of ampicillin bound to polyisohexylcyanoacrylate nanoparticles was studied in vitro in mouse peritoneal macrophages infected with Listeria monocytogenes. Nanopartic...

Nanoparticles in cancer therapy and diagnosis

Squalene Based Nanocomposites: A New Platform for the Design of Multifunctional Pharmaceutical Theragnostics

This study reports the design of a novel theragnostic nanomedicine which combines (i) the ability to target a prodrug of gemcitabine to an experimental solid tumor under the inf...