 So we're here outside Tessaloniki at the nanotechnology conference and hi, so who are you? Hi, my name is Thymius Mityadis. I'm from the University of Zurich, Switzerland And I'm here for the organization of the whole program for one week. Is it ETH? It is both ETH and University of Zurich. And What do you do over there? I'm a medical doctor and I'm working with nanotechnology stem cells and genetics So there's a lot of hope in the medical field in those areas, right? And are a lot of things happening? Yes, a lot of things are happening. It's not just hope. You have some applications that actually are in clinics And really we are trying every day to improve something in the traditional medicine So are you part of the organization here you say? Yes in the nano medicine So you find all the people that are speaking or what do you do? Yes, that means we are looking for colleagues that are working all around the world We are inviting them if they are interested to join this conference and To equilibrate to balance a little bit the program by giving lectures in covering all fields of the medical So nanotechnology the most is the most important part of nanotechnology is the nanomedicine Is it nanomedicine you would say the best part of nanotechnology? Nanotechnology of course nanotechnology you have a photovoltaics you have a lot for energy production and so on but Medicine this is my field. I try really to apply or to make a marriage of the different disciplines medical discipline with nanotechnology and stem cells and so on for Diagnostic reasons for therapies targeted therapies and other things that we are elaborating actually So can you go into more detail said? What is possible? What is not possible? What are you trying to do exactly? Possible is the diagnostics for instance. This is happening if you are taking the medicine you can In a later exhalate and if you have a disease and you are freezing the nanoparticles that in the air You can detect probably some diseases that are inside of yours And you don't even know that are existing. So it is an early diagnostic tool Another part it is really to make a target targeted treatment. This is Many essays now for cancer therapy to go to hit cancer cells in order to die and the other part it is really to give some treatment Chronic and so on with inflammation and so on So you you are using this another part that is it is really about the blood that you are doing You are treating the blood you are purifying the blood and so on for people that are suffering chronic diseases So medicine always have to go through the stomach is always has to be a pill you swallow and it goes there And or there's other ways to do. No, it's not just a pill you can make a local injection You can you can make other therapies alternative therapies. It's not just a pill Of course the traditional medicine have adiabiotics and they are going through the mouth always But you can have inhalation for instance if you are going to to have Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's Because the nose is Really communicating very easily with the brain is that this part so you can in a light different products and you can found in the brain after And that works you have nanotechnology that helps with the Alzheimer's and those kind of things It's you have trials actually and for instance, I can tell you that you have Never growth factor are some neurotrophines that people working with them they are Done some trials with a limited number of patients, of course, but they have some effects Let's say so until to go to much general population We have to be sure because these neurotrophic molecules they avoid some pain as well to the patients And we have to take out this pain effect before we're applying. Yes, but you have yes There are many many diseases that they can be treated like that What can what can be done with cancer? Cancer cancer is a big deal, of course, you know and when we're speaking about cancer You can imagine that you have mutations all around the cells and that's why it's not so easy It's not just a genetic cause one gene that you are going to specifically kill or to repair and so on You have a multifactory event happening and that's why it's so difficult to Tackle but however, they're different the says they are Clinical phase one or two trials in mice, of course in the rats. They are successful But since we are not mice or rat We have a different immune system as well and so so where we have really to be much more careful about this and Not to give hopes really like that one day. I'm sure that will come but we're not yet there So is it is it possible that the big cure for cancer is through nanotechnology? It is not just in a technology I can mention you have different techniques now in medicine and you have not to exclude one or another, you know All that they are combinatorie. They are working synergistically for the cure the cancer And I can name actually that we have x-ray. We have now cities or we have different Kind of imaging system new technology, but still you are going somewhere you are making an x-ray So x-ray is not abolished. You you have a big spectrum of technologies that we have to use, you know So do you work with the students with the masters and PhDs and stuff like that I have I have my line of research activities. Actually, it is the craniofacial development Regeneration how you can repair different parts of the craniofacial complex. This includes muscles, bones, cartilage, teeth So all these really you have to know the specificity because each tissue is different It's not the same and you have to know well first of all the tissue because Really if you like to beat somebody You see when you have words you have this kind of spice you are going and you are getting information And this kind of spice is the knowledge to know well the tissue how it's made and so on in order to found really the treatment by the end so Is there is there a chance that what's called? Are you able to find the how the anything that has to do with the head and the brain? Yeah, that means we have found a lot of things actually now you have the personalized medicine for instance If you have a fractures and so on And you are the form and you have the formations of the face is that you can do it is really to reconstruct By image insisting and computing technology How was there your your bones before and so on and after to go to make 3d printing That is another tool that it's not so new as they believe people it is older But you have three 3d printers. You can really Re-establish this tissue to you can put inside cells you can even put into the cells the genomes, you know the genes that are corresponded to each cell type with this single cell Sequencing analysis so that means you have a lot of new technologies in our days and this is good But we have not the time by ourselves to analyze everything because Everything is coming very fast and we need some time as well to to to think to establish something to see if is working always and so on and Would you say that results are coming fast enough in this field or could it come much faster? How could it come faster? They are coming fast because technologies everywhere are developing very fast and Look for instance with internet and so on even the information that you are getting in our days is coming very fast So you have many articles you have no the time to read, you know You have to be very selective and this is a part of our job as well It is really to go to pick up what is the the most new To adapt the technology. I consider that the different fields. It is as languages You have to speak more and more languages so that means to to take part of physics of mathematics of Medical field of biological field and so on and to make really a nice amalgam if I speak in the Stem or mosaic and in order to understand and really to advance So you have to have a global view and that's why they have to work people together from the different fields So here this conference. There's the whole track with sessions and people talking about this field, right? Yes, so what are they talking about? Me I'm going to speak specifically this time about neurons how we can regenerate because this is a neglect in dairy in my field That means we have of course Parkinson's. This is the central nervous system and Alzheimer's, but we have other Injuries all around our body are with motto neurons or the general ganglia So this really we don't know what the part of innovation in the reconstruction of the body because most of the people They are trying to fabricate Let's say the the bone the heart issue by putting some blonde supply But innovation is not making part of the equation yet And we know that nerves are very important not just for the sensation pain But it's as well by neurotransmitters these molecules that really they are allowed the behavior to change of cells and so on so these are important things that Unfortunately are neglected and I'm trying to work in these things. So How do neglected are you able to is there is a point where people are going to be able to understand the brain so good? They can scan it and and put things inside Does it have to do with nanotechnology? You can put things in the brain inside But you know if you like to hit two or three cells that probably are defective You have to imagine that the the cells are not alone They are moving in one space that we are calling micro environment that is influencing the cell So if you like really to repair a tissue, you have to take Part of the homin as well of the cell so that means it's not the cells alone You have all the other elements and this is the important part of medicine And they are not to mention these classical courses in biology that we were following. It's really to incorporate these elements in in the modern fields of biology and medicine What are the other tracks, what are the other people talking about here are there some people doing a lot of different work on the net of medicine. Yeah, they're they're working about cancers. They are working about Cartilage about bone, you know all this of course you can go with the nanomaterials To improve for instance you have other implants that you can modify the surface of the implant like these the cells are attaching Easily or they have different properties as well So you have a lot of things and even for the voltax if you like to put energy somewhere You have to understand what is going on in the tissue because we have Elements that they are producing energy in our body in order to bring this Combination in the future, you know, so we're speaking of course what is happening right now But we have a view in the future and I on the future what can happen, you know Can be Hypothesis right now that we like to verify but if we are in these meetings big meetings This is offering it is really to network to see others works and really to imagine new products, so And this is the top conference about nanotechnology in Europe I don't know that if it is there in Europe or not But this I know for this conference because I'm coming now for consecutive years That is developing the field people are coming back They like really to learn they like to connect and after you are keeping you know for this European stuff in any case you have these European grants. They are putting themselves together and after we have with Asia Some relations you are going there. You are see what they are doing. You see all the new developments as on this is I Can say that this is very successful because the quality is increasing every year and It is well organized for starters really European We're in Greece, but it's really one of the best organized conferences in Europe. I believe