The findings of our study can significantly contribute to better understanding of muscle and skin electroporation which is of great importance for sucsseful planning of electroporation based gene therapy and vaccination (including other electroporation based therapies). Our findings can significantly contribute to the translation these therapies into the clinical practice. Since the electroporation based gene therapy and vaccination are cost-effective and easily implementable methods of administration they can be useful for treatment of chronic diseases where patients must be treated for years of even for their whole lifetime (e.g. diabetes, HIV).
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
COBISS.SI-ID: 9484884We developed and upgraded our interactive e-learning application that provides educational content about electroporation process needed in development and planning of electroporation based therapies and treatments such as electrochemotherapy, gene therapy and vaccination and transdermal drug delivery. Faculty of Electrical Engineering (University of Ljubljana) organizes an International workshop and postgraduate school on electroporation based treatments and therapies (EBTT), which is every year attended by students and young researchers as well as by the leading experts from the field. We presented the e-learning application to the participants of the International workshop EBTT organized in 2012. In 2012 the EBTT was attended by 64 participants from 13 countries (Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Nederland, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden and USA). Our e-learning application that we developed during this posdoctoral research project enables the transfer and the knowledge exchange worldwide and as such it increases the reputation of our research group, the University of Ljubljana, and Republic of Slovenia.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
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