Alessandro Di Girolamo

ALESSANDRO DI GIROLAMO earned a Master's Degree in Industrial Chemistry in 2021 from the University of Bologna and he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Chemistry in 2019 from the same University. He is a PhD student fellow in Dr. Teresa Pellegrino group at IIT since 2021. The topic of his research in IIT is primarily focused on the development of functional inorganic nanoparticles for multimodal therapeutic and diagnostic applications targeting cancer cells. One line of his work involves multifunctional iron oxide nanocubes (IONCs), designed as smart magnetic nanocarriers capable of inducing localized heating for magnetic hyperthermia treatment (MHT), while simultaneously enabling the loading and stimulus-responsive release of chemotherapeutic agents with high specificity at tumor sites. Another area of research explores copper-based and radioactive copper 64-based nanoclusters (CuNCs and 64CuNCs), for diagnostic imaging and cancer therapy.