Lay abstract of my research project
Modern chemotherapy treatments cause terrible side effects such as nausea and hair loss. This is because anticancer drugs affect healthy areas of our bodies, not just tumours. The goal of my research is to use Boron/Nitrogen co-doped carbon nano-onions (BN-CNOs) as vehicles to deliver drug molecules directly to cancer tissues. To do this, the nano-onions are coated with a polymer to allow them to be dispersed in water, and therefore travel throughout the body. This polymer coating can also include a targeting ligand, which acts as a honing device to direct the nanoparticles to cancer cells.
- Nanocarriers
- CNOs
- Theragnostics
BSc in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science
Dublin City University 2021
Non-Covalently Functionalised Boron/Nitrogen Co-doped Carbon Nano-onions as Targeted Nanocarriers
7th Annual DCU Chemistry Day, Dublin, Ireland
Oral April 2022
Supramolecular functionalisation of B/N co-doped carbon nano-onions for novel nanocarrier systems
Un. Montpellier@DCU – Advances in Materials Chemistry, Dublin, Ireland
Oral June 2022
Non-covalently functionalised boron/nitrogen co-doped carbon nano-onions as targeted nanocarriers
32nd International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials, Lisbon, Portugal
Oral September 2022
Towards targeted, fluorescent nanocarrier systems based on doped carbon nano-onions
23rd International Conference on the Science and Applications of Nanotubes and Low-dimensional Materials, Arcachon, France
Oral June 2023
Supramolecular functionalisation of B/N co-doped carbon nano-onions for theragnostic applications
73rd Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium Dublin, Ireland
Poster June 2022
A fluorescent, targeted nanocarrier system based on doped carbon nano-onions
16th International Conference on materials chemistry, Dublin, Ireland
Poster July 2023