Dr Arathyram Ramachandra Kurup Sasikala

Biography

Dr. Arathyram Ramachandra Kurup Sasikala is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences. Her vision is to develop next generation nanotherapeutics for human diseases with unmet clinical needs through non-invasive approaches. She is an interdisciplinary biomaterial scientist who completed her master’s degree in Physics and continued her journey toward nanomedicine research and worked on the interface between materials science and biology. After receiving her doctorate from the Department of Bionanosystem Engineering, Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) South Korea, she was quickly recognised for her work with a three-year Young Investigator Award from the National Research Foundation of Korea. Meanwhile, she's taken a position as an Assistant Research Professor at the JBNU. Her role as an independent PI gave her the opportunity to serve as Primary Supervisor for two master's theses and as Co-supervisor for one doctoral thesis. To further develop her career as an independent research leader in next-generation biomaterials, she moved to the University of Birmingham as a Marie Curie Fellow, where she investigated a new strategy for the non-invasive modulation of the Blood Brain Barrier to overcome the unmet need for delivering drugs to the brain. Arathyram is passionate about communicating her research to the public and patients through PPI meetings and various outreach activities like European Researchers Night, Nottingham Soapbox Science, Pint of Science etc. She is the Outreach, Collaborations, and Dissemination Lead of the Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science.

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