Drug Delivery | Fischell Department of Bioengineering

Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals. BIOE researchers working in this area are developing new techniques to target therapeutics to hard-to-reach areas in the body, such as within the lymph node and beyond the blood-brain barrier. They are leading new cutting-edge technologies in extracellular vesicle-based drug delivery and therapeutic development. They are also working to improve the efficacy of therapies to minimize unintended side effects from treatments, such as in chemotherapy or ablative therapies for cancer. They also work toward development of therapeutic vaccines targeting cancer and autoimmune diseases.