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Prof Wafa Al-Jamal

School of Pharmacy

Prof Wafa Al-Jamal

School of Pharmacy

Prof. Al-Jamal’s team focuses on advanced nanotherapeutics. She has a multidisciplinary team working on developing innovative nanomedicines for combinatory therapy and theranostic applications.

To design and develop smart (stimuli-responsive) vectors to improve biologics and conventional anticancer therapy, besides introducing new targeting approaches to enhance efficacy and reduce the side effects of existing therapeutics and treatments.

Explore new methodologies, such as microfluidics, to fabricate and scale up multifunctional and lipid nanoparticles for combinatory therapy, immunotherapy, or theranostic applications.

 

Contact info

  • w.al-jamal@qub.ac.uk
  • +44(0)2890972609

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of:

  • Biologics
  • Immunotherapy
  • Tumour microenvironment
  • Non-thermal electroporation
  • Targeted delivery/Theranostics
  • Smart and novel nanomaterials
  • Prostate and pancreatic cancer

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Research students

PhD Title Fucoidan-based Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery System to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy
Name Ms Ungsari Rizki Eka Purwanto
Years of Study 2024 - 2028
Country  Republic of Indonesia
   
PhD Title Molecularly Imprinted Nanocarriers for Cancer Immunotherapy
Name Ms Minao Zhang
Years of Study 2022 - 2025
Country  China
   
PhD Title Developing mRNA-Nanomedicines to Potentiate Immunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer
Name Ms Raghad Qadadeh
Years of Study 2022 - 2025
Country  Jordan

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Preparation of multifunctional nanoparticles using microfluidics
Name Dr Calvin Cheung
Years of Study 2016 - 2020
Country  Hong Kong
Current Position Senior Technical Officer, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   
PhD Title Developing a thermoresponsive targeted nanomedicine for advanced prostate cancer
Name Dr Sara Pereira
Years of Study 2014 - 2019 (part-time)
Country  Portugal
Current Position Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
   
PhD Title Development of Novel Cupric- Tirapazamine Liposomes for Hypoxia Selective Therapy
Name Dr Vera Silva
Years of Study 2014 - 2017
Country  Portugal
Current Position Oncology Scientist at Engitix Therapeutics, UK

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