Event
BIOE Seminar: Crossing Biological Barriers to Enhance Immunotherapy
Friday, March 4, 2022
9:00 a.m.
Virtual - Zoom login information available upon request
Dr. Gregg Duncan
gaduncan@umd.edu
Katharina Maisel
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
University of Maryland
Crossing biological barriers to enhance immunotherapy
This event will be offered in a virtual format. Login details will be sent to current BIOE faculty, affiliates, students, postdocs, and those who have previously asked to subscribe to our seminars listserv. If you do not currently receive our weekly seminars emails but you wish to attend this event, please email Alyssa Tomlinson (awolice@umd.edu).
About the speaker:
Dr. Maisel joined the University of Maryland in January 2019 having done interdisciplinary training in nanotechnology, mucosal immunology, lymphatic immunology, and immunoengineering. Her graduate work focused on designing nanomedicines and their delivery vehicles for treating diseases at mucosal surfaces, particularly the gastrointestinal and cervicovaginal tracts. In her postdoc, she studied the immunological roles of lymphatics in allergic airway inflammation and the immune involvement in the rare lung disease lymphangioleiomyomatosis. At UMD, her lab uses in vitro modeling, nanotechnology, and immunoengineering approaches to study and develop treatments for diseases at mucosal surfaces. The lab’s focus is on studying the stromal compartment's, particularly the lymphatics', roles in disease pathology at mucosal surfaces. Additionally, they explore how the stromal compartment can be modulated and targeted using nanotechnologies for novel therapeutic strategies. As a trainee, Dr. Maisel has won the prestigious NSF GRFP and NIH F32 fellowships, and was recently awarded an NSF CAREER Award and NIH NIGMS Maximizing Investigator Research Award. Her work has led to numerous high-impact publications, particularly in the field of drug delivery and mucosal immunoengineering, and several patents.
