Agathe Figarol
University of Toulouse, France
Biography
Agathe Figarol has developed her expertise in nano-bio interactions since her MSc. thesis in Health and the Environment (Cranfield University, UK). Looking at the cellular impact of silica nanomaterials on keratinocytes, she was already starting to combine the different approaches of physical chemistry and biology relying on her technical background in biology engineering (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France). She further enhanced her pluridisciplinarity along her PhD exploring the impacts on physico-chemical characteristics of carbon nanotubes on macrophages (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de St-Etienne, France). Her confirmed enthusiasm for the dynamic and state-of-the-art field of nanobiology led her, after a year of discovery of the industrial strategy on toxicology, to join a collaborative project on polymeric nanovectors (IPBS and IMRCP laboratories from the Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, France).
Abstract
Abstract : Polymeric self-assemblies for photodynamic therapy: a critical approach