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Juliane Nguyen

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Juliane Nguyen, PhD
Pronunciation
  • [ŋʷǐˀən]
Alma materPhilipps-Universität Marburg
Known forProtein Engineering, Complex Biologics, Live Biotherapeutics, Exosomes
AwardsNSF CAREER, AAPS Emerging Leader, CMBE Young Innovator, NY-Star Faculty award, Fellow of the Controlled Release Society
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorThomas Kissel
Other academic advisorsFrancis Szoka
Websitenguyenlab.web.unc.edu

Juliane Nguyen is a professor at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and vice chair of the Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics (DPMP).[1] She is also the Director of Graduate Admissions in DPMP at UNC at Chapel Hill.

Career

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She received her pharmacy degree and PhD from Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany,[2] completing her PhD in Thomas Kissel's group.[3] After receiving her degrees, she completed a Post doc with Francis Szoka[4] at University of California, San Francisco. Her research is focused on engineered live biotherapeutics, exosomes and lipid based drug delivery systems.[5] She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2018 for her work as well as over $13M from the NIH and other funding sources.[6][7] Nguyen’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the CMBE Young Innovator Award (2019) from the Biomedical Engineering Society, the AAPS Emerging Leader Award (2019), the NYSTAR Faculty Award (2019), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2018), the Pioneering Pharmaceutical Sciences by Emerging Investigators Award (2018), and the University at Buffalo – Exceptional Scholar Young Investigator Award (2017).[8] Nguyen is a Fellow of the Controlled Release Society (2023) and a Fellow of AIMBE (2024).

Editorial Service

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  • Executive Editor - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews - 2021 to present
  • Associate Editor at Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) - 2023
  • International Advisory Board for ChemMedChem - 2021 to present

Awards & Honors

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References

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  1. ^ UNC, Eshelman School of Pharmacy. "UNC Website". Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  2. ^ Nguyen, Juliane; Szoka, Francis (2012). "Nucleic Acid Delivery: The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle?". Acc. Chem. Res. 45 (7): 1153–62. doi:10.1021/ar3000162. PMC 3399092. PMID 22428908.
  3. ^ Nguyen, J; Steele, TW; Merkel, O; Reul, R; Kissel, T (2008). "Fast degrading polyesters as siRNA nano-carriers for pulmonary gene therapy". J Control Release. 132 (3): 243–51. doi:10.1016/j.jconrel.2008.06.010. PMC 7125568. PMID 18619502.
  4. ^ "Francis Szoka, PhD". UCSF. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Juliane Nguyen, PhD". Google Scholars. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  6. ^ "CAREER: Active-Loadable Poresomes for the Cytoplasmic Delivery of Membrane-Impermeable Compounds". NSF. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Faculty News: Winter 2017". AACP.org. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Juliane Nguyen, Ph.D." UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
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