On the 7th and 8th July, kicked off in Modena with a productive and fruitful discussion between the project coordinator INSTM (including representatives from University of Trieste, its affiliated entities), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the spin-off company Sindrel Medtech, and partner Future Needs." During the two-day meeting, we discussed issues related to ethics, nanotechnology and pharmaceutics, the technical challenges of the prototype development and the stra