Juliane Nguyen is a professor at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.[1] She received her PharmD and PhD from Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany,[2] completing her PhD in Thomas Kissel's group.[3] After receiving her degrees, she completed a Post doc with Francis Szoka[4] at University of California, San Francisco. Her research is focused on exosomes and lipid based drug delivery systems.[5] She was awarded a National Science FoundationCAREER award in 2018 for her work as well as over $13M from the NIH and other funding sources.[6][7] Nguyen’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the CMBE Young Innovator Award (2019) from the Biomedical Engineering Society, the AAPS Emerging Leader Award (2019), the NYSTAR Faculty Award (2019), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2018), the Pioneering Pharmaceutical Sciences by Emerging Investigators Award (2018), and the University at Buffalo – Exceptional Scholar Young Investigator Award (2017).[8] Nguyen is a Fellow of the Controlled Release Society (2023).
