Victoria Sherwood
University of Dundee, UK
Biography
Victoria Sherwood is a Discovery Fellow in Skin Cancer Biology at the University of Dundee. Dundee is ranked number one for biological research in the UK. Victoria’s research interests lie in how skin tumours progress into the most dangerous, metastatic forms of the disease and in the development of novel therapeutic strategies to treat these advanced tumours. This has led to an interest in my lab in developing targeted, theranostic NPs for the treatment of metastatic melanoma (one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer). As part of this on-going work my lab have invested efforts in improving techniques to assess NP safety, as nanotoxicity is often a major barrier to the clinic for nanoformulations. Here I will present some of our published work to address these issues and will discuss future directions that we are taking in the lab to further improve safety assessment of nanotherapeutic materials.
Abstract
Abstract : An early developmental vertebrate model to assess nanomaterial safety