Center for Biopharmaceuticals and Biobarriers in Drug Delivery

Investigators

Sorted alphabetically

	Ada-Ioana Bunea, Assistant Professor Polymer Micro & Nano Engineering DTU Nanolab My research focuses on developing and characterizing light-controllable microrobots in both stiff and soft polymers. The microrobots are 3D-printed with high resolution using two-photon polymerization. Polymer engineering and surface functionalization confer the desired properties to the microrobots, while beam-shaping and optical trapping techniques are employed for their manipulation (more information).
	Alexandre Emmanuel Wetzel, former Ph.D. Student Polymer Micro & Nano Engineering DTU Nanolab My research is focused towards enabling and optimizing the optical control of microtools through different biological media, such as mucus or saliva, for the study of drug-biobarrier interactions in vitro. For this purpose, my research activities also include the design and functionalization of new microtools as well as participating in the development of a lab-on-a-chip system.
	Danai Anastasia Panou, former Ph.D Student Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen My scientific interests concern the use of in vitro tools to investigate the delivery of biopharmaceuticals across biological berriers mediated by cell penetrating peptides (CPPs). My main focus is to establish in vitro models of intestinal epithelium for understanding the biological mechanisms govern the absorption of biopharmaceuticals.
	Einstom Engay, Postdoctoral Fellow Polymer Micro & Nano Engineering DTU Nanolab My research is on utilizing light-matter interaction to fabricate, functionalize and manipulate tools for in vitro study of drug-barrier interaction in a specialized lab-on-a-chip system, and on using optical characterization techniques to elicit information on the drug-barrier interaction.
	Feng Wan, Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen
	Gokce Endugar, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of British Columbia My current research in the BioDelivery Center is focusing on radiolabeling, in vitro characterization and in vivo evaluation of insulin self-assembly. Along with my colleagues I work on quantification of the pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of insulin using preclinical PET/SPECT/CT imaging (more information).
	Hussein Chaaban, Ph.D. Student Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen more information
	Janni Støvring Mortensen, Ph.D. Student Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen more information
	Jannik Brøndsted Hovgaard, Research Associate Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen
	Jijo Vallooran Joy, Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen
	Karina Juul Vissing, Senior Laboratory Technician Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen
	Kathy Saatchi, Senior Research Associate Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences The University of British Columbia My research comprises the design of diagnostic, therapeutic or theranostic radiopharmaceuticals. My main expertise is the syntheses and radiolabeling of small and macro (bio)molecules and nanomedicines for imaging by PET/SPECT/CT (more information).
	Mai Bay Stie, Ph.D. Student Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen I have a broad scientific interest in drug delivery of biopharmaceuticals. In this project, I am investigating the interaction of excipients with mucosal and epithelial biobarriers that limit the permeation of biopharmaceuticals. I have a background in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and an expertise in several techniques, e.g., in vivo cell models, confocal microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and rheology (more information).
	Marco van de Weert, Associate Professor Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen more information
	Marta Bergamo, M.Sc., Ph.D Student Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of British Columbia My research interests primarily encompass nanomedicine, nuclear imaging, and drug formulation. In particular, I am focusing on oral delivery of biopharmaceuticals to treat bleeding within the gastrointestinal tract, and developing novel formulations for the systemic delivery of blood modifiers (more information).
	Mikkel Boas Thygesen, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen more information
	Narendra Kumar Mishra, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen In broad outline, my research interest lies in the chemical science domain. Specific area of my research is the chemical modification of proteins with abiotic ligand and followed by self-assembly in presence of divalent and trivalent cations in order to organize tertiary structures to give new, artificial quaternary architectures of proteins (more information).
	Niels Johan Christensen, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen I am specialized in molecular modeling and computational chemistry. My main focus is to establish in silico models for understanding the interaction between mucus, peptides and excipients.
	Nikos Hatzakis, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen more information
	Panagiota Kalomoiri, Ph.D Student Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen My research focuses on chemically modified peptides as potential biopharmaceuticals, for which oral delivery would give important treatment options. I am interested in investigating the interaction and transportation of biopharmaceuticals across mucus and epithelial barriers. My aim is to study the pharmacokinetics by bio-imaging of the biopharmaceuticals.
	Ragna Guldsmed Diedrichsen, Ph.D. Student Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen My research comprises evaluation of transepithelial permeation of therapeutic proteins by employing cell-penetrating peptides and investigation of interactions between the cell-penetrating peptides and therapeutic proteins or the epithelium (more information).
	Stine Harloff-Helleberg, Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen more information
	Sven Frøkjær, Professor Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen more information
	Sylvester Erik Gravesen Petersen Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen
	Sylvia Natalie Klodzinska, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen
	Søren Schmidt-Rasmussen Nielsen, Ph.D. Student Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen
	Tanya Saxena, Ph.D. Student Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences The University of British Columbia My research involves the development and testing of site-directed oral delivery of biomacromolecules in capsules to the intestine. I then investigate the radiolabeled drug moieties by preclinical SPECT/CT imaging to determine their biodistribution and pharmacokinetics (more information).
	Vito Foderà, Associate Professor Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen more information
	Xin Zhou, former Ph.D. Student Department of Pharmacy University of Copenhagen

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Project Leader and
Principal Investigator
Professor
Hanne Mørck Nielsen
hanne.morck@sund.ku.dk