Drug and Gene Delivery
Understanding and developing new strategies aimed at therapies for cancer, infectious and cardiovascular disease, muscle disease, and gastrointestinal disease
The field of drug and gene delivery involves development and delivery of drugs, genes, and gene products that ultimately alter protein expression and function of the cells, tissues, and living organisms.
Important areas in this growing field include development of delivery vehicles such as plasmids, nanoparticles, viruses, liposomes, peptide/protein complexes, and biomaterial scaffolds, as well as studies of drug and gene transport, delivery strategies, delivery barriers, and immune response to delivery.
Duke BME is actively involved in understanding and developing new strategies for drug and gene delivery aimed at therapies for cancer, infectious and cardiovascular disease, muscle disease, gastrointestinal disease, and others.
Close collaborations with Duke University School of Medicine faculty and support from the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE) are important contributors to the successful endeavors of this research community.
Associated Faculty
Pranam D. Chatterjee
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Acting Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of BME
Charles Gersbach
John W. Strohbehn Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
David F. Katz
Nello L. Teer, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Cameron M Kim
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of BME
Michael D Lynch
W. H. Gardner, Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Robert A. Malkin
Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Wanda Krassowska Neu
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
Michael Raphael Tadross
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You
James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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