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2026
- Three PhD upgrades: congratulations to Xinqi, Wellydo and Yuhan
Xinqi Zhong, Wellydo Escarião and Yuhan Lu have passed their MPhil-to-PhD upgrade, a key milestone in the King's doctoral programme.
- Talk at CRS 2026 in Lisbon: nanoneedle transfection needs caveolae
Ciro presented Efficient nanoneedle transfection requires caveolar endocytosis in the Nanoscale Delivery IV session at the Controlled Release Society annual meeting.
- Dr Chenlei Gu wins the Tadion Rideal Prize for Molecular Science
Chenlei's PhD thesis, Engineering a Nanoneedle Biopsy Platform for Spatiotemporal Omics, has been awarded King's Tadion Rideal Prize.
- Biohub funds nanoneedle sampling of live tissue
Our project, Nanoneedle sampling of live tissue for spatiotemporal omics, is one of 15 teams funded by Biohub to watch inflammation unfold in living tissue.
- NanoCure selected for Innovate UK ICURe Explore
After completing ICURe Discover, our nanoneedle-based local gene delivery project NanoCure, led by Yikai Wang, moves on to the ICURe Explore programme.
- Porous silicon week at PSST 2026 in Naples
Yikai Wang, Hongting Zhu and Yusi Guo presented our nanostructured silicon platforms for EV manufacturing, restenosis and periodontal disease.
- A perfusion microbioreactor for making CAR-Treg cells
In iScience, we describe the KCL-Microbioreactor, a compact closed platform for small-batch manufacturing of CAR-Treg cell therapies.
- Vertical nanoprobes in the Nano Futures roadmap on living materials
We contributed the section on vertical nanoprobes to a new roadmap, Nano-enabled living materials and living electronics, in Nano Futures.
- Special session on nanoscale electroporation at WC2026
Ciro and Christelle Prinz (Lund University) co-chair a special session on nanoscale electroporation at the 6th World Congress on Electroporation, Daytona Beach, 27 Sept to 1 Oct 2026.
- Preprint: reprogramming tumour models by targeting macrophages
Led by Ines Poljak with Giulia Adriani's group, optoporation delivers genes to macrophages inside tumour spheroids to reshape immune phenotypes.
- Indo-UK workshop on nanomaterials at IIT Madras
Ciro joined the Indo-UK Workshop on Nanomaterials in Biomedical Applications at IIT Madras, with colleagues from King's and the University of Leeds.
- Nanoneedles on the Health in Hyperdrive podcast
Ciro talked to Dominic James about nanoneedles, CRISPR delivery, nano-bandages for epidermolysis bullosa and biopsy-free sampling.
- Cure EB features NanoCure: nanoneedle bandages for EB gene therapy
Cure EB has released a video of Ciro describing NanoCure, the charity-funded project developing nanoneedle bandages to deliver collagen VII gene therapy.
- How nanoneedles transfect cells: caveolae hold the key
In ACS Nano, we show that Caveolin-1-dependent caveolar endocytosis is what turns nanoneedle delivery into gene expression.
2025
- EB4BM: new doctoral training in engineering biology for biomedicine
King's, Leeds and NPL launch Engineering Biology for Biomedicine, a BBSRC Doctoral Focal Award training around 40 PhD researchers. The lab is part of the programme.
- Commentary: a new paradigm for tumour profiling
In Clinical and Translational Medicine, Ciro explains how spatiotemporal omics in living tissue could change tumour profiling.
- Webinar: new nanoscale platforms for drug delivery
Ciro spoke alongside Frédérique Cunin (CNRS) at the Nanomaterials (MDPI) webinar on nanoscale platforms for drug delivery.
- Nanoneedles map lipids in living tissue over time
In Nature Nanotechnology, nanoneedles repeatedly sample live brain tissue for spatial lipidomics, without destroying it.
- Nanoneedle electroporation for CAR-Treg manufacturing
In Advanced Science, a scalable nanoneedle electroporation platform transfects primary human Tregs with CAR plasmids, a non-viral route to CAR-Treg production.
- Nanoneedles deliver a base editor to correct a skin-disease mutation
In Advanced Materials, nanoneedle delivery of an adenine base editor corrects a COL7A1 variant in patient cells with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
2024
- Light-guided gene delivery into organoids
In Advanced Materials, porous silicon nanoparticles and laser pulses deliver nucleic acids into chosen regions of 3D organoid cultures.