Code
3E014010
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Biomarker discovery and evaluation
- Drug discovery and development
- Medicinal products
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapy
- Toxicology and toxinology
- Other pharmaceutical sciences
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Engineering and technology
- Chemical product design and formulation
- Biomaterials engineering
Keywords
drug delivery
nanoparticle
lungs
miRNA
siRNA
Project description
The research project describes the design of pulmonary delivery strategies for small RNAs (siRNA and miRNA) and their evaluation in several in vitro and in vivo therapeutic models. The presented project aims to investigate if an optimized formulation of small RNAs may provide a significant therapeutic benefit.