Dr Dania Movia
Biography
Dr Dania Movia is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical & Health Services at the Department of Biology at Maynooth University and a Principal Investigator of the Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Discipline of Radiation Therapy of Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).
Dr Movia graduated in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies in 2007 from the University of Trieste (Italy). She then obtained her PhD at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) in 2012, and she was awarded a Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice and a Master in Arts (jure officii) by the same university in 2018 and 2023, respectively.
Dr Movia is a member of several professional bodies and organisations, which include the Irish Lung Cancer Alliance (ILCA) and Cancer Trials Ireland. She is an active member of the scientific advisory panels of Animal-Free Research UK and FRAME-UK.
Dr Movia has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications. She acted as Guest Editor in Animals (MDPI) and Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. (Frontiers) journals, and she co-edited the Cancer Cell Culture book for the Methods in Molecular Biology series, published by Springer Nature. She is currently an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Pharmacology journal.
Research Interests
Dr Movia champions the reduction/replacement of animal testing via research and training of young scientists. Her current research work focuses on developing new, non-animal methodologies (NAMs) that can replace animal studies in lung cancer and lung toxicity research.
She has received funding in excess of €2M from several national, European and international (UK and USA) agencies including the Irish Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland, the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, and the European Commission.
Research Projects
Book Chapter
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Soliman, MG; Trinh, DN; Ravagli, C; Meleady, P; Henry, M; Movia, D; Doumett, S; Cappiello, L; Prina-Mello, A; Baldi, G; Monopoli, MP (2023) 'Development of a fast and simple method for the isolation of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles protein corona from protein-rich matrices'. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 659 . [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Multari, C.; Miola, M.; Ferraris, S.; Movia, D.; Žužek Rožman, K.; Kostevšek, N.; Follenzi, A.; Verné, E.; Prina-Mello, A. (2018) 'Synthesis and characterization of silica-coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and interaction with pancreatic cancer cells'. International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, 15 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Di Cristo, L.; Carthy, S.M.; Paton, K.; Movia, D.; Prina-Mello, A. (2018) 'Interplay between oxidative stress and endoplasmic reticulum stress mediated- autophagy in unfunctionalised few-layer graphene-exposed macrophages'. 2D Materials, 5 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 |
Moore, C.; Movia, D.; Smith, R.J.; Hanlon, D.; Lebre, F.; Lavelle, E.C.; Byrne, H.J.; Coleman, J.N.; Volkov, Y.; McIntyre, J. (2017) 'Industrial grade 2D molybdenum disulphide (MoS | |
| 2016 | Di Cristo, L.; Movia, D.; Bianchi, M.G.; Allegri, M.; Mohamed, B.M.; Bell, A.P.; Moore, C.; Pinelli, S.; Rasmussen, K.; Riego-Sintes, J.; Prina-Mello, A.; Bussolati, O.; Bergamaschi, E. (2016) 'Proinflammatory effects of pyrogenic and precipitated amorphous silica nanoparticles in innate immunity cells'. Toxicological Sciences, 150 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Spadavecchia, J.; Movia, D.; Moore, C.; Maguire, C.M.; Moustaoui, H.; Casale, S.; Volkov, Y.; Prina-Mello, A. (2016) 'Targeted polyethylene glycol gold nanoparticles for the treatment of pancreatic cancer: From synthesis to proof-of-concept in vitro studies'. International journal of nanomedicine, 11 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Rotoli, B.M.; Gatti, R.; Movia, D.; Bianchi, M.G.; Di Cristo, L.; Fenoglio, I.; Sonvico, F.; Bergamaschi, E.; Prina-Mello, A.; Bussolati, O. (2015) 'Identifying contact-mediated, localized toxic effects of MWCNT aggregates on epithelial monolayers: A single-cell monitoring toxicity assay'. Nanotoxicology, 9 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Schütz, C.A.; Staedler, D.; Crosbie-Staunton, K.; Movia, D.; Bernasconi, C.C.; Kenzaoui, B.H.; Prina-Mello, A.; Juillerat-Jeanneret, L. (2014) 'Differential stress reaction of human colon cells to oleic-acid-stabilized and unstabilized ultrasmall iron oxide nanoparticles'. International journal of nanomedicine, 9 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Movia, D.; Gerard, V.; Maguire, C.M.; Jain, N.; Bell, A.P.; Nicolosi, V.; O'Neill, T.; Scholz, D.; Gun'ko, Y.; Volkov, Y.; Prina-Mello, A. (2014) 'A safe-by-design approach to the development of gold nanoboxes as carriers for internalization into cancer cells'. Biomaterials, 35 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Singh, M.; Movia, D.; Mahfoud, O.K.; Volkov, Y.; Prina-Mello, A. (2013) 'Silver nanowires as prospective carriers for drug delivery in cancer treatment: An in vitro biocompatibility study on lung adenocarcinoma cells and fibroblasts'. European Journal of Nanomedicine, 5 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Mohamed, B.M.; Movia, D.; Knyazev, A.; Langevin, D.; Davies, A.M.; Prina-Mello, A.; Volkov, Y. (2013) 'Citrullination as early-stage indicator of cell response to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes'. Scientific Reports, 3 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Schinwald, A.; Murphy, F.A.; Prina-Mello, A.; Poland, C.A.; Byrne, F.; Movia, D.; Glass, J.R.; Dickerson, J.C.; Schultz, D.A.; Jeffree, C.E.; Macnee, W.; Donaldson, K. (2012) 'The threshold length for fiber-induced acute pleural inflammation: Shedding light on the early events in asbestos-induced mesothelioma'. Toxicological Sciences, 128 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Canto, E.D.; Natali, M.; Movia, D.; Giordani, S. (2012) 'Photo-controlled release of zinc metal ions by spiropyran receptors anchored to single-walled carbon nanotubes'. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2011 | Del Canto, E.; Flavin, K.; Movia, D.; Navio, C.; Bittencourt, C.; Giordani, S. (2011) 'Critical investigation of defect site functionalization on single-walled carbon nanotubes'. Chemistry of Materials, 23 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2011 | Movia, D.; Prina-Mello, A.; Bazou, D.; Volkov, Y.; Giordani, S. (2011) 'Screening the cytotoxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes using novel 3D tissue-mimetic models'. ACS Nano, 5 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2011 | Leblanc, R.M.; Thakur, G.; Micic, M.; Yang, Y.; Li, W.; Movia, D.; Giordani, S.; Zhang, H. (2011) 'Conjugated quantum dots inhibit the amyloid β(1-42) fibrillation process'. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2010 | Movia, D.; Prina-Mello, A.; Volkov, Y.; Giordani, S. (2010) 'Determination of spiropyran cytotoxicity by high content screening and analysis for safe application in bionanosensing'. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 23 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2010 | Movia, D.; Del Canto, E.; Giordani, S. (2010) 'Purified and oxidized single-walled carbon nanotubes as robust near-IR fluorescent probes for molecular imaging'. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2009 | Movia, D.; Del Canto, E.; Giordani, S. (2009) 'Spectroscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes in aqueous surfactant dispersion'. Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research, 246 . [Link] [DOI] |
Other Publication
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Movia, D.; Prina-Mello, A. (2023) Preface. [Link] | |
| 2016 | Bregoli, L.; Movia, D.; Gavigan-Imedio, J.D.; Lysaght, J.; Reynolds, J.; Prina-Mello, A. (2016) Nanomedicine applied to translational oncology: A future perspective on cancer treatment. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Mahfoud, O.K.; Rakovich, T.Y.; Prina-Mello, A.; Movia, D.; Alves, F.; Volkov, Y. (2014) Detection of ErbB2: Nanotechnological solutions for clinical diagnostics. [Link] [DOI] |