Christine Dufes's Biography

Christine Dufes, Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde

Christine Dufès is a Senior Lecturer at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (United Kingdom). She obtained a Doctorate in Pharmacy (with Distinction and congratulations of the Jury) and a PhD (with a European Label, Distinction and congratulations of the Jury) from the University of Poitiers (France). After four years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Laboratories in Glasgow, she was appointed as a Lecturer at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences in 2006 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2012. Her research interests include the targeted delivery of drugs and therapeutic genes to tumours and cerebral diseases. She has been awarded the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award (2009) and the Tom Gibson Memorial Award (2012) for her research, the Best Overall Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Award (2013) for her teaching. She sits on the editorial boards for the Chinese Journal of Clinicians, ISRN Pharmaceutics, Journal of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, BioMed Research International, Advances in Biomaterials and is a Scientific Advisor to the Editors of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.