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MagNETicFUN network gets started at Keele
Keele pioneered biomedical applications of nanomagnetics in the Hartshill laboratories of ISTM.
The first meeting of "MagNETicFUN", a new European-funded Marie Curie Training Network, took place at Keele on 8-9 October.
The objective of the Network is to train a group of young scientists from all over Europe in working with magnetic nanoparticles and applying them in chemistry and biomedicine.
The MagNETicFUN network will run for 4 years using a grant of Euro 4.4million, led by the University of Regensburg in Germany. Keele will receive over Euro 600,000, having pioneered biomedical applications of nanomagnetics in the Hartshill laboratories of the Research Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine, under the direction of Prof Jon Dobson and, more recently, Dr Neil Telling. Participants in the MagNETicFUN Network at Keele will also 
spend about one third of their time on secondment to the University of Florida through ISTM’s research partnership with the that institution.
Furthermore, two spin-out companies based at the Science & Business Park – nanoTherics and MICA Biosystems – are offering training in the Network based on other novel biomedical nanomagnetic technologies developed at ISTM. Other partners are universities and companies in Switzerland, Ireland, Italy and Spain, and the first young researchers are being recruited to start in January 2013.
In the photograph above, the representatives of all the participants in the Network are pictured outside the Guy Hilton Research Centre, including Keele’s Prof Alicia El Haj , Dr Neil Telling and Dr Neil Farrow, plus Dr Audrey Arfi from the European Commission in Brussels.
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