News / 29 October 2026

Nanoneedles on tour: Suzhou, CityU and HKU

Ciro gave an invited talk on nanoneedles for spatiotemporal omics at Cold Spring Harbor Asia's Frontiers in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics in Suzhou, then presented our work at City University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong.

Ciro Chiappini presenting 'Exploring Cells with Nanoneedles' at the HKU LKS Faculty of Medicine

Over the past two weeks, Ciro took the lab’s nanoneedle research to China and Hong Kong.

Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou. Ciro was an invited speaker at Frontiers in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics (19–23 October), organised by Prof. Woong-Yang Park, Prof. Fuchou Tang, Prof. Thierry Voet and Prof. Siyuan (Steven) Wang. He presented the lab’s work on nanoneedles for spatiotemporal omics: sampling living cells and tissues repeatedly to follow biology over time and space.

City University of Hong Kong. On 26 October Ciro gave the College of Biomedicine seminar Exploring Cells with Nanoneedles, hosted by Prof. Peng Shi and Prof. Alejandro Carnicer Lombarte. The talk covered how nanoneedles deliver genetic material, proteins and nanoparticles into hard-to-reach cells such as stem and immune cells, and how they sample living cells and tissues with minimal disruption to track disease progression and treatment response.

Ciro Chiappini speaking at the CityU College of Biomedicine seminar, with a slide titled ‘Manipulating cells with nanoneedles’ on two screens and the audience in the foreground Photo: City University of Hong Kong, College of Biomedicine

The University of Hong Kong. Ciro then presented the work at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, hosted by Prof. Khuloud Al-Jamal and Prof. Weiping Wang.

Ciro Chiappini receiving a gift from a host after his HKU talk, with the title slide ‘Exploring Cells with Nanoneedles’ on the screen behind them

Ciro Chiappini with a host on a terrace overlooking Hong Kong’s hillside towers and the sea

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