Mei He, Ph.D., an associate professor of pharmaceutics in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, has received a $1.3 million award from the National Institutes of Health to support a new extracellular vesicle platform used to develop gene therapy.
Extracellular vesicles, or EVs, are a relatively new approach to delivering genome editing therapeutics — the small, membrane-bound vesicles act as envelopes delivering intercellular communications that influence a cell’s behavior or function. By optimizing and validating their EV platform, He’s team will be able to accelerate the clinical translation of EV-based therapeutic products, a task that currently poses a significant challenge in the field.
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