Alessia Pancaro

Alessia Pancaro (°1993) graduated Magna Cum Laude in Molecular and Industrial Biotechnologies in Italy in 2018. She then moved to Belgium as a PhD fellow in the European Marie Curie ITN consortium (NanoCarb) at the department of Sustainable Health of VITO NV where she developed a diagnostic sensing platform using gold nanorods conjugated with synthetic glycopolymers. She joined the Dynamic Bioimaging Lab at Biomedical Research Institute and she got her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Hasselt University in 2023.

In October 2023, she joined as a FWO postdoctoral researcher in the group of Nanobiophysics and Soft Matter Interfaces at the Institute for Materials Research (imo-imomec) at Hasselt University.

Her research focuses on the development of biomimetic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for inhalable drug delivery in lung cancer.