Home    IMT-Bucharest (National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies) IMT is an associate Partner to Nano2Life Contact: Prof. Dan Dascalu, dascalu@imt.ro, see also www.imt.ro   IMT-Bucharest (National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies), coordinated by the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, is acting as a hub of national activities in the field of micro and nanotechnologies. This institute is the main actor in microtechnologies in Romania (with microsystems promoted by national programmes since 1993, also including nanotechnologies since 2000). IMT-Bucharest is now partner in five FP6 successful proposals of networks (Nano to Life not included): Priority 2, IST: Networks of Excellence PATENT and AMICOM Priority 3, NMP: Networks of Excellence NANOFUNPOLY and 4M Marie Curie Research & Training Network ASSEMIC Also, IMT-Bucharest is coordinator of two SSA successful proposals: ROMNET-ERA which will experiment new tools for knowledge management, also promoting networking in new technologies and their applications to life in Romania; MINAEST-NET  which is devoted to networking in micro- and nanotechnologies in candidate countries and Eastern Europe.   At the end of 2003, IMT-Bucharest (together with iMediaSoft from Grenoble, France) launched the nanoLINK initiative. NanoLink is a web portal (www.nano-link.net) and a e-newsletter (nanoLINK), but is is also a network (nanoLINKnet): a knowledge network pursuing life quality through technological innovation (LINK = Life quality through Innovation by a Network of Knowledge). 1 Bio-chips for electrochemical activity investigation of biological media (2001-2002) Partners: - IMT-Bucharest, Center of Nanotechnologies; - University of Bucharest, Chemistry Faculty; - Institute of Biology - Bucharest Objectives: §- design and fabrication of devices based on silicon nanoelectrodes; - array for biological application; §- investigation of electrochemical activity of bacteria; §- study of electron transfer in biological media; - cell growth on metallic tips ; Contact person: Irina Kleps, irinak@imt.ro Porous silicon matrix for    biomedical applications (2001- 2004) Partners: - IMT-Bucharest, Center of Nanotechnologies; - Institute of Biochemistry - Bucharest, - INCD Physics of Materials-Bucharest Objectives: - experiments on porous silicon: by appropriate control of pore size and porosity, and surface treatments,  it is covered the entire bioactivity spectrum of nanostructured silicon; - cell culture growth on biocompatible micro porous silicon; Contact person: Anca Angelescu, ancaa@imt.ro 2 Silicon-chip-based bioanalytical microdevices  (2003-2005) Partners: - I MT Bucharest, Center of - Nanotechnologies; - Faculty of Biology, University of - Bucharest,    - Dextercom. SRL        Objectives: silicon array microfabrication; surface chemistry and  DNA immobilization;  PCR cycling and on-chip DNA micro array hybridization Contact person: Irina Kleps, irinak@imt.ro Microsystem for controlled drug delivery       (2003-2005) Partners:   - IMT Bucharest, Center of Nanotechnologies - INCD - Chemical-Pharmaceutical - Oncological Institute - ˜Al. I. Treistoreanu" Objectives: - Design and fabrication of a microchip with a reservoir arrays; - calibration of microchip to deliver programmed drug dosages over a prolonged period, at specific time  intervals Contact person: Mihaela Miu, mihaelam@imt.ro 3 Nanostructurated silicon membranes technology for pharmaceutical microdevices (2003-2005) Partners:   - IMT Bucharest, Center of Nanotechnologies; - Institute for Chemical-Pharmaceutical Research - Center for Organic Chemistry Objectives: - design and fabrication of  pharmaceutical microdevices on silicon; - study of mesoporous silicon implant for pharmaceutical substances release; Contact person: Anca Angelescu, ancaa@imt.ro Microprobe for stimulation and       recording of neural activity Partners: - IMT-Bucharest - Military Medical Research Center Objectives: - Development of an implantable neural microprobe in order to enable the correlation between electrical activity in the human central nervous system and externally psycho-electrical and chemical stimuli; - Realization of a microprobe experimental test structure  for human body implant and for in-vitro cells and tissues electrical recording and study of the compatibility  with the electronic circuits. Contact person: Carmen Moldovan, cmoldovan@imt.ro