Assist. Prof. Slavko Kralj, PhD

  • Department for Materials Synthesis, Jozef Stefan Institute
  • Visiting Researcher, Department for Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, SuperStructures Lab (https://www.marchesanlab.com/), University of Trieste, Italy

Projects:

Nanotheranostics based on magneto-responsive materials (J1―7302)

Tunneling nanotubes for innovative urinary bladder cancer treatments (J3―7494)

Awards:

2016 – 2017 Prestigious Talents Fellowship (AREA Science Park), Trieste, Italy

2011 “Deans” award for the best innovation at the University of Ljubljana (3trd place among 42,000 students)

2007 “Krka award” for research project (company income > €1.3 billion annually) 

2007 – 2012 Young Researcher Scholarship from the Republic of Slovenia

2005 Pharmaceutical practise in Hospital Pharmacy supported by Farmadent company, Trujillo, Peru

5 selected publications:

1) Magnetic Assembly of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Clusters into Nanochains and Nanobundles, ACS Nano 2015, 9, 10, 9700–9707

2) Embedding and Positioning of Two FeII4L4 Cages in Supramolecular Tripeptide Gels for Selective Chemical Segregation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 131, 8066 –8070

3) Magnetic Silica-Coated Iron Oxide Nanochains as Photothermal Agents, Disrupting the Extracellular Matrix, and Eradicating Cancer Cells, Cancers 2019, 11(12), 2040

4) Design and Fabrication of Magnetically Responsive Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2017, 24,  5, 454-469

5) Ex-Solution Synthesis of Sub-5-nm FeOx Nanoparticles on Mesoporous Hollow N,O-Doped Carbon Nanoshells for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2, 10, 6092–6097