Olivia Merkel
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Biography
Olivia Merkel, is a Professor of Drug Delivery in the Department of Pharmacy at LMU Munich. From 2011 until 2016 she was an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics and an Associate Faculty Member of Oncology at Wayne State University and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit. She became a Registered Pharmacist in 2005. In 2006, she received a MS in Pharmaceutics from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, and a PhD in Pharmaceutics from Philipps-Universität Marburg in 2009. She received several awards, including an ERC Starting Grant, the Galenus Foundation Technology Award, the Wayne State College of Pharmacy Young Investigator Award, the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Science Young Pharmaceutical Investigator Award, an invitation to the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, the Carl-Wilhelm-Scheele-Award by the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) and the award for the best PhD thesis at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Currently Prof. Merkel’s research focuses on targeted siRNA delivery in cancer and inflammatory diseases
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Abstract : In-Situ Forming Gel Devices as Local Depot Therapeutic for Rheumatoide Arthritis