Short-Term Scientific Mission
Short-Term Scientific Mission in Germany funded by PlasTHER COST Action
Short-term scientific missions (STSM) are one of the efforts of COST actions to support breakthroughs in the field. Short-term scientific missions are funded exchange visits between researchers involved in a COST action, allowing scientists to visit an institution or laboratory in another country. The aim of STSMs is to:
- Foster collaboration and networking.
- Share new techniques that may not be available in a participant’s home institution and exchange knowledge.
- Advance scientific objectives and the project.
- Promote career development.
The Plasma PLUS group are active members of the concluding PlasTHER COST action. Our PhD student, Natalia, was awarded STSM funding from PlasTHER, and has recently returned from her STSM with the Molecular Gynecology group at the Department of Women’s Health Tübingen, Tübingen University, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Martin Weiss.
Natalia spent the last 6 months validating the current research of Plasma PLUS with a clinically relevant cold atmospheric plasma device and establishing a mode of delivery for the anticancer therapy that Plasma PLUS is developing. She has also been exposed and got hand-on experience with new methodologies and technology, while sharing her own knowledge. The STSM yielded promising results which were disseminated during the PlasTHER Final Annual Meeting in Barcelona. The STSM has also helped establish a successful collaboration between the Plasma PLUS and the Molecular Gynecology group, which we hope will yield further collaborative projects in the future.
Plasma PLUS would like to sincerely thank the Molecular Gynecology group for hosting Natalia and PlasTHER for the opportunity.
Plasma PLUS was also happy to welcome their own STSM PhD student, Giulia Petrucci, from the University “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara in Italy. It was great to have Giulia here who has done a lot of work on the investigation of the effects of cold atmospheric plasma on 3D glioblastoma models. We are looking forward to welcoming her again next year and continuing the collaboration with Giulia and her supervisor, Dr. Viviana di Giacomo
Fig.1. Natalia presenting the work performed during her STSM at the PlasTHER 4th and Final Annual Meeting
Fig.2. PlasTHER COST Action and their objectives
Fig.3. PlasTHER COST Action was funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Fig.4. The STSM placement was based at the Tübingen Woman's Clinic
Fig.5. Logo of the Molecular Gynecology Plasma group which hosted Natalia for her STSM.