Mary Caldorera-Moore, a graduate alumna, was featured in Design News for her intelligent drug delivery research.
Mary Caldorera-Moore
Mary Caldorera-Moore, a graduate alumna, was featured in Design News for her intelligent drug delivery research.
Caldorera-Moore, who received her doctorate in biomedical engineering in 2010 from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently an assistant professor at Louisiana Tech University, discussed advantages of intelligent drug delivery. Intelligent drug delivery targets an affected area of the body and administers only the needed dosage for treatment of cancer and other diseases.
Caldorera-Moore says drugs that are administered intravenously expose the entire body to the drug. In the case of chemotherapy this effect can be quite harsh. But by creating drugs that are pH-, temperature-, and biomolecule-responsive, clinicians will be able to use less treatment, which will lessen patient side effects and drive down the cost.
Design News mentions Caldorera-Moore alongside leaders in the field of drug delivery: Robert Langer, an entrepreneur, professor at MIT, and U.S. National Medal of Science winner; and the department's own Nicholas Peppas, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine among other prestigious recognitions. All three researchers "are taking a chemistry-oriented approach to intelligent drug delivery," the article states.
As a graduate student at UT Austin, Caldorera-Moore conducted research with Krishnendu Roy, currently a professor with Georgia Tech University. She continued her postdoctoral research with Nicholas Peppas before joining the faculty at Louisiana Tech University to run the Therapeutic Micro- and Nanotechnology Biomaterial Laboratory.
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