Dr Driton Vllasaliu
Driton is a Reader in Biotherapeutics Delivery, King’s College London.
Driton is a registered pharmacist and gained his PhD at the University of Nottingham. He is currently a Reader in Biotherapeutics Delivery at King’s College London. Driton’s research interests centre around understanding and overcoming the biological barriers to improve drug delivery, with a key focus on enabling injection-free administration of biotherapeutic drugs (peptides, proteins, nucleic acids). As part of this, he has specific interests in drug delivery systems, including nanomedicines and extracellular vesicles. He is also interested in drug delivery for diseases of, or linked to, the gut. Finally, aspects of Driton’s research relate to the creation of improved (more predictive) in vitro models for use in medicines development, including organoids. Driton routinely collaborates with the pharmaceutical industry and his research has been funded by different UKRI councils.
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