16 Apr 2021 at 5:00pm via Zoom

Speaker Biography
Driton is a registered pharmacist and gained his PhD in Mucosal Delivery of Proteins at the University of Nottingham. He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Nottingham on the development of improved in vitro gut models. He is currently a lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College London. Driton’s research interests centre around overcoming the biological barriers to improve drug delivery and enable non-invasive delivery (e.g. oral) of macromolecules, which currently require administration by injections. As part of this, he has specific interests in drug delivery systems, including nanomedicines, for mucosal delivery. He is also interested in drug delivery in mucosal diseases (e.g. Inflammatory Bowel Disease) and how such diseases influence drug absorption and delivery. Finally, aspects of Driton’s research relate to the creation of improved (more predictive) in vitro mucosal models for use in drug discovery and delivery research.

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23 Mar 2021 at 4:00pm via Zoom

Speaker Biography
Zhichao Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He obtained his PhD in 2013 at the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He worked as a post-doctorate research fellow at the West Virginia University in US (2014-2015) and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden (2015-2018). Dr Zhou’s research interests include Cardiovascular (Patho) physiology and Vascular Biology. Using a translational approach with a variety of models of cells, animals and patients, the research goals are to elucidate the novel disease mechanisms underlying cardiovascular complications and to find potential therapeutic targets. The particular focus of his recent research is on the role of erythrocyte as disease mediator of cardiovascular dysfunction in various cardiovascular disorders including cardiometabolic disease, ischemic heart disease and hypertension.

The seminar will be conducted via Zoom

Please register with kywtin@hku.hk, Zoom link  and password will be emailed to registrants

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