Marie Curie Actions: Inspiring Researchers - Imdea

Perhaps even more important, though, is the impact that theMarie Curie project has had on the relatively young fi eld of CNTresearch. The Fellows’ mobility has enabled them to spreadtheir knowledge elsewhere and to fortify collaborations withinthe fi eld. All Fellows have visited partner institutions severaltimes and have conducted research together with their co-Fellow hosts. In addition, periodic Carbio meetings provide afruitful platform for scientifi c discussions within the network,while workshops and summer schools bring the researcherstogether. An impressive 74 publications are already in print,bearing testament to Carbio’s scientifi c success.‘The laboratory leaders come from chemistry, clinical,biochemical and physics backgrounds, and the fact thatthey can communicate from such a diverse base is atriumph,’ he concludes.Dr Klingeler is convinced that part of this success is due to theconsortium’s truly interdisciplinary nature. Biologists, engineersand physicists from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria,Poland and the UK have joined forces on the Carbio project,which ‘provides an excellent example of a multidisciplinarytraining network’, Dr Klingeler says. ‘No one lab in thisconsortium can work without the input of several of thepartners and, as a result, the early-stage researchers havean extremely good overview of the work of the Carbionetwork as a whole.Project acronymCarbioFull project titleMulti-functional carbon nanotubes for biomedical applicationsType of grantTraining NetworkBudgetEUR 3 050 500Duration of project01-10-2006 - 30-09-2010Scientific disciplineLife sciencesLead partnerLeibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW)DresdenHelmholtzstr. 20DE-01069 DresdenTel. +49 351 4659 666 // Fax +49 351 4659 9666E-mail: R.Klingeler@ifw-dresden.deOther partnersUniversité Paul Sabatier, France - ZachodniopomorskiUniwersytet Technologczny (West Pomeranian University of Technology), Poland -University of Surrey, United Kingdom - The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of theUniversity of Oxford, United Kingdom - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria -Universteit Twente, Netherlands - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany23