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Associate Professor
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Devika S Manickam is an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at Duquesne University and she received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). She started her independent career in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA). Her laboratory is identifying novel therapeutic strategies targeting delivery “to” the blood-brain barrier—a less explored target for brain drug delivery. Her laboratory develops lipid nanoparticle- and extracellular vesicle (EV)-based systems for the delivery of small molecule, nucleic acid and protein drugs. Importantly, her laboratory has championed the idea of harnessing the innate EV mitochondrial load as a therapeutic cargo, in addition to engineering EVs for the delivery of exogenous drugs. Prof. Manickam has published papers in leading drug delivery journals including Journal of Controlled Release, Biomaterials and Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews.
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Barrier or Target?: Delivery of Mitochondria-Containing Extracellular Vesicles to the BBB
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM MT