Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Advances and Perspectives of Neuronanomedicine

About Lina MachtoubYu Kasugai

Prof Lina Machtoub received her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo Japan 2002 after she was granted honourable research fellowship from the Japanese Government for 5 years. In 2003 she joined Max Planck Institute Germany after she was granted a research award from Alexander von Humboldt foundation. In the institute she worked on the development of combined ultra-high magnetic field and optical imaging. In 2006 she became visiting scientist at Harvard Medical University Boston. Since 2007 she has participated in several clinical research projects focusing on the development of clinical multimodal imaging techniques based on nanobiotechnology. In 2009 she joined the Medical University of Innsbruck Austria where she conducted research on developing highly sensitive diagnostic and targeted imaging probes with implications of in vivo imaging-targeted contrast agents and multifunctional imaging. Her main project was the development of innovative diagnostic approach surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS) microscopy using nanoscale contrast agents for magnetic resonance.