Research output per year
Research output per year
PL 56 (Viikinkaari 9)
00014
Finland
Research activity per year
My research interests include different advanced drug delivery systems, especially nanoscale systems enabling intracellular delivery of drugs. I am currently working in a project on stimuli-responsive drug delivery vehicles. These lipid nanoparticle carriers, liposomes, can be induced to release the drug with exposition to light and change in pH after cell uptake. These light triggerable and pH-sensitive liposomes would enable time- and site-controlled drug delivery, thus allowing refined treatment regimens and reducing drug exposition of non-target cells. Drug delivery via these stimuli-responsive liposomes would provide improved delivery methods for the treatment of, for instance, diseases of the posterior eye (such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy) that currently need to be treated with frequent, invasive intravitreal injections.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Saarikangas, J., Elomaa, E. J. & Kontturi, L.
Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/09/2024 → 31/08/2028
Project: Research Council of Finland: Academy Project
Leena Kontturi (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution