Dr. Khuloud al-Jamal, MPharm, PhD, Senior Research & Teaching Fellow in Nanomedicine
She studied Pharmacy at Petra University, Jordan, graduating in 1998. After working for two years as a research assistant at Petra University, she joined The School of Pharmacy to undertake a PhD in drug delivery under the supervision of Professor Sandy Florence. During her postgraduate studies she was awarded an Overseas Research Student (ORS) Scholarship from the University of London. She spent her pre-registration pharmacy training year at the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust in 2005. During her PhD, she synthesized a variety of dendron and dendrimer molecules and studied their self-assembly behaviour into vesicular structures so called “dendrisomes”. The interaction of these macromolecules with cholesterol, surfactants, heparin as well as their in vitro and in vivo uptake was studied. Khuloud is currently working on the transformation of various delivery systems as angiogenesis inhibitors for the treatment of solid and metastatic tumors.

Dr. Wafa al-Jamal
Wafa is originally from Palestine, but has been living in Jordan since 1991. She obtained her Bachelors degree in Pharmacy with Distinction in February 2003 from Al-Zaytoonah University (Amman, Jordan). After graduation she spent 8 months working as a community pharmacist. In October, 2003 she started working as a teaching assistant for Physical Pharmacy, Microbiology and Pharmacognosy in Al-Zaytoonah University. Her PhD studies focus on the development of novel liposome-based structures for tumor targeting and enhanced intratumoral delivery. Wafa has been awarded an Overseas Research Student (ORS) Scholarship from the University of London.

Dr. Jeroen van der Boscche

Dr. Chang Guo

Ms. Jennifer Podesta, MPhil/PhD student
Jennifer obtained her BSc (Hons) in Molecular Biology from the University of Liverpool, UK. Prior to joining the Nanomedicine Lab in March 2006 to undertake a BBSRC-CASE studentship in collaboration with AstraZeneca, she worked as a research assistant at the MRC Prion Unit in the neighbouring Institute of Neurology. Jennifer also worked at the Institute of Child Health, UCL and the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, NJ, USA. Her research has focused on molecular cell biology, from extracellular matrix proteins in C. elegans to neuronal development during embyogenesis and is now translating this to the development of targeted therapeutics for gene silencing in cancer.

Ms. Hanene Ali-Boucetta, MPhil/PhD student
Hanene obtained a first-class MPharm (Hons) degree from the School of Pharmacy, University of London and is originally from Algeria. She is holder of a full scholarship from the Ministére de l’Enseignement Supèrieur et de la Recherche Scientifique (Algérie). Her research focuses on the use of carbon nanotubes for therapeutic puposes.

Mr. Bowen Tian, MPhil/PhD student
Tian has studied Pharmaceutical Sciences in China. He is reading for his MSc in Drug Delivery in September 2006. He is spending 6 months in our laboratory working on nanoparticulate interations using fluorescence spectrophotometry.

Mr. Antonio Nunes, MPhil/PhD student

Ms. Acelya Yilmazer, MPhil/PhD student