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PhytoAPP Project Conference at ODAE 2025, Ölüdeniz, Turkey

The PhytoAPP Project held its Project Conference in the first week of September 2025 in Ölüdeniz, Turkey, as part of the international event ODAE – Open Dialog in Applied Engineering 2025, organized by COFAC/Lusófona University. The hybrid event welcomed international participants both onsite and online, ensuring broad engagement across Europe and beyond.
ODAE is an international forum bringing together scientists, researchers, and engineers from around the world to explore the latest advances in applied engineering and their impact on pressing societal and medical challenges. Its mission is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, share innovative practices, and strengthen collaborations across research fields.
Hosting the conference within ODAE offered an excellent platform to showcase PhytoAPP’s results to a multidisciplinary audience while connecting with other EU Horizon projects, including INNMEDSCAN (101086178), DETMED (101129879), CATCHER (101046307), EWALD (101086250), E-NOSE (101182748), and HSAFE (101232577). Satellite workshops from these initiatives enriched the dialogue and strengthened interdisciplinary collaboration.
Highlights included dedicated lectures from PhytoAPP partners, who had the opportunity to share the project’s scientific results:
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Anthony (University of Oxford, UK) – Neuroprotection Through Antioxidant Nanomaterials: In Vivo Insights from the PhytoAPP Project
- Prof. Dr. Katarina Siposova (Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovakia) – Amyloid Aggregation: Inhibition Strategies and Emerging Biotechnological Applications
-Prof. Dr. Sergiy Lyubchyk (Lusófona University, Portugal) – Innovative Water-Soluble Phytomaterial Inhibitors for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases Prevention
- Dr. Nurgali Akylbekov (Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University, Kazakhstan) – Synthesis of New Water-Soluble Salts of Benzofuroxans and Study of Biological Properties
Dissemination materials (conference kit) were shared with all participants. By integrating with ODAE 2025, the PhytoAPP Conference amplified the project’s visibility, fostered new collaborations, and positioned its results within the wider European research and innovation landscape. This Conference was an important landmark for PhytoAPP, which approaches its close-out (February 2026).

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PhytoAPP 3rd Workshop at Lusófona University in Lisbon

The 3rd Workshop of the PhytoAPP project was held on April 15, 2025, at DeepTechLab, Lusófona University in Lisbon, Portugal. The event was organized by NANOTECHCENTER in collaboration with DeepTechLab/Lusófona. The PhytoAPP project is funded by the European Executive Research Agency of the European Commission and is coordinated by Professor Sergiy Lyubchyk from Lusófona University.
The primary objective of the workshop was to assess the current status and progress of the project’s Work Packages (WPs) and to discuss strategic directions for their completion, with particular focus on the remaining project timeline leading to its conclusion in February 2026. Detailed presentations were delivered mainly by the WP leaders, highlighting key achievements, ongoing activities, challenges, and future plans. The following finished and ongoing Work Packages were addressed:
• WP1: Advanced Materials Reference Onset Elaboration
• WP2: Comprehensive Studies on Inhibition of Amyloid Fibrils Formation
• WP3: Novel Materials Preclinical Studies
• WP4: Innovative Materials Fabrication
• WP5: Novel PhytoAPP Products Specification and Certification for Medical Application
• WP6: Management, Dissemination, and Public Engagement
The workshop concluded with a roundtable discussion focused on cross-WP integration, knowledge exchange, and planning. Key topics included upcoming scientific research activities, staff exchange/mobility, dissemination efforts, and preparations for the final project conference. Communication strategies and visibility tools were also discussed to maximize the project's outreach and impact.
The workshop was attended by representatives of all consortium partners, either in person or remotely. The following institutions were represented, namely: COFAC/Lusófona University (Ulusófona,PT), NANOTECHCENTER LLC (UA), Ústav Experimentálnej Fyziky Slovenskej Akadémie Vied – UEF SAV (IEP, SK), The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford (UOXF, UK), Cascatachuva Lda (PT), Republican State Enterprise with the Right of Economic Authority Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University of the Ministry of Education and Science (KKSU, KZ), and the National Nuclear Research Center CJSC under the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan (NNRC, AZ).

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PHYTOAPP SUMMER SCHOOL

From the 1st to the 3rd of July, the Summer School of the project PhytoAPP took place at Lusófona University, in Lisbon. PhytoAPP is a project funded by the European Executive Research Agency of the European Commission, and coordinated by Professor Sergiy Lyubchyk from Lusófona University.
Throughout the three days, the PhytoAPP Summer School featured a session of in-person and online lectures and practical sessions at Deep Tech Lab. Overall, the Summer School was a platform for participants to engage in the project, share ideas, and complement their theoretical and practical knowledge in the field.
There were a total of nine lectures given by experts in the field from different countries, such as Professor Azer Zadigov (National Nuclear Research Center CJSC, AZ), Professor Daniel Anthony (Oxford University, UK), Professor Ziraddin Zadigov (National Nuclear Research Center CJSC, AZ), Professor Nurbol Appazov (Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University, KZ), Professor Tatiana Strekalova (Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University, KZ), Professor Gabor Somlyai (HYD LLC for Cancer Research and Drug Development, HU), Professor Katarina Siposova (Institute of Experimental Physics, SK) and Dr. Anastasia Tmur (YANDEX, NL).
The lectures, which included Q&A and discussion sessions, covered a range of different and very interesting topics related to Medical Science:
1. Radiation benefits and risks for health;
2. Modern trends in Nuclear Medicine;
3. Navigating the Blood-Brain Barrier: Strategies and Challenges in Drug Delivery; 4. Prospects for avalanche electronics and its application in medical devices;
5. Potential Use of Camelthorn (Alhagi Pseudalhagi) Medicinal Plant Extracts in the Prevention and Treatment of Early-Stage Atherosclerosis;
6. New treatments with phytochemicals in mouse models of Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases;
7. Role of naturally occurring deuterium in cancer growth and prevention;
8. Amyloid Paradigm: From Pathological Structures to Functional Bionanomaterials;
9. AI in Drug Discovery: Accelerating the Path to Cures.

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Phytoapp Mid – term meeting

On the 10th of July, the Mid-term meeting of the Phytoapp project took place in the Gran Canaria – a project funded by the European Executive Research Agency of the European Commission, and coordinated by Professor Sergiy Lyubchyk from Lusófona University. The main purpose of the Phytoapp project are the design, development and delivery of innovative water-soluble Phytochemical Inhibitors for Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases prevention, by exploring the innovative nanotechnological solutions to overcome the challenge related to the phytochemical’s limitation on to their low water-solubility. In the mid-term meeting, the main progresses of the project were presented by all the teams of the Consortium related to the Work Packages of theirs responsibility, including: Design and Optimization of the synthetic pathways towards reliable and reproducible Lab Scale synthesis of the nano-enable Phytochemical water-soluble material; In vitro kinetic studies to elaborate solution for water-soluble nano-enabled Phytomaterials usage in nanomedicine as inhibitors for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases prevention; Preclinical assessment of the elaborated nano-enable Phytomaterials; Scaled up production and further development of an open innovation in terms of increased productivity and reduction of solvent/materials consumption while providing a high yield and quality of nanopharmaceutical products. It was also discussed the progresses of Lusofona´s coordination team on project management, particularly related to the communication and dissemination plan of the project and the data management plan. All teams from Lusofona University (PT), NOVA ID FCT (PT), NANOTECHCENTER LLC (UA), NEUROPLAST BV (NL), Institute of Experimental Physics (SK), Oxford University (UK), CASCATACHUVA LDA (PT) and National Nuclear Research Center (AZ) of the Consortium were represented in the meeting, either in presence or online.

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