Ricardo Papaléo went to the Dutch institution on work mission through the PrInt Program to consolidate partnership
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Professor at the School of Technology Ricardo Papaléo went on a work mission to the University of Groningen (Netherlands), through the Institutional Project of Internationalization (PUCRS-PrInt). The faculty member had already been to the Dutch university in 2019 and, in this second opportunity, expanded the partnership in the context of the research activities linked to the cooperation project titled Desenvolvimento de tecnologias e processos inovadores em saúde (“Development of technologies and innovative processes in health”), coordinated by professor Maria Martha Campos.
During his mission abroad, the professor presented the results of the PrInt partnership at the International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids and International Symposium on Swift Heavy Ions in Matter (ICACS-SHIM) in Helsinki, in Finland. Three works were presented: the first, Nanoparticle Assisted Radiosensitization In Human Glioblastoma Cells Exposed To High-energy Photon And Charged-particles, was developed in a partnership between PUCRS and the University of Groningen. The second, titled Applying The Inelastic Termal Spike Model To The Investigation Of Ion Tracks In Polymers, is a result of the interaction enabled by CAPES-PrInt with the French professor Marcel Toulemonde.
Among other activities, Papaléo participated in meetings to establish the project of cooperation in research on the use of nanoparticles in oncologic radiotherapy with researchers from the University Medical Center Groningen, which began in 2019 and was expanded in 2021. At another moment, the faculty member discussed results and planned experiments for the collaborative work he coordinates, titled Investigation Of Nanoparticle-assisted Radiosensitization In Organoids And 2D Cell Cultures Exposed To High-energy Photon And Charged-particle Beams.
The professor also outlined a possible expansion of the partnership, which would facilitate the mobility of doctoral students from the Graduate Program in Engineering and Materials Technology, in addition to discussing cooperation opportunities with researchers from institutes at the Dutch universities, like the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials.
