Developing nanoparticle formulations in powder form with excellent redispersibility: facing a major challenge in Nanomedicine

• Grant number: 20/00767-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2022
• End date: August 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Physical-Chemistry
• Agreement: CONICET
• Mobility Program: SPRINT - Projetos de pesquisa - Mobilidade
• Principal Investigator: Mateus Borba Cardoso
• Grantee: Mateus Borba Cardoso
• Principal researcher abroad: Marcelo Ceolin
• Institution abroad: Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Argentina
• Host Institution: Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM). Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Agustín Silvio Picco
• Associated research grant: 15/25406-5 - Organizing matter: colloids formed by association of surfactants, polymers and nanoparticles, AP.TEM

Abstract

Research works devoted to bioapplications of nanoparticles are usually carried out in liquid suspensions. However, aqueous nanoparticle suspensions present many sources of instabilities like premature drug leakage, denaturation/hydrolysis of loaded drugs/conjugated biomolecules, particle hydrolysis/etching, and aggregation or fusion depending on the nature of the nanoparticle. A common way to overcome these issues is to work with nanoformulations in solid form (by removing water or solvent), which are frequently obtained by freeze-drying (lyophilization). Here we aim at developing strategies for producing nanoparticle-based formulations in powder form, that can be stored over long periods (months to years) preserving their physicochemical features, and presenting excellent redispersibility in complex biological media. In addition, the nanoparticles should maintain their nanomedical action (for instance, drug delivery) over the entire process. Finally, the whole nanoformulation should not exhibit any evidence of toxic effects (at least at in vitro level in this project stage, like cytotoxicity, hemotoxicity, among others). (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DA CRUZ SCHNEID, ANDRESSA; ALBUQUERQUE, LINDOMAR JOSE CALUMBY; MONDO, GABRIELA BORBA; CEOLIN, MARCELO; PICCO, AGUSTIN SILVIO; CARDOSO, MATEUS BORBA. Colloidal stability and degradability of silica nanoparticles in biological fluids: a review. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, JAN 2022. (16/16905-0, 20/00767-3, 15/25406-5, 18/00763-8, 19/24894-7)

FERREIRA, LARISSA FERNANDA; PICCO, AGUSTIN SILVIO; GALDINO, FLAVIA ELISA; CALUMBY ALBUQUERQUE, LINDOMAR JOSE; BERRET, JEAN-FRANCOIS; CARDOSO, MATEUS BORBA. Nanoparticle-Protein Interaction: Demystifying the Correlation between Protein Corona and Aggregation Phenomena. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, v. 14, n. 25, p. 11-pg., 2022-06-13. (17/02145-7, 18/09555-9, 21/12071-6, 20/00767-3, 14/21910-8, 19/24894-7, 15/25406-5)