Juliane Nguyen's Biography

Juliane Nguyen, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Juliane Nguyen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her lab develops novel protein-, RNA-, and exosome-based biochemical and delivery platforms for treating myocardial infarction and cancer. Dr. Nguyen’s work has been recognized with the NYSTAR faculty award, the NSF CAREER Award (2018), the Young Innovator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society (2019), and the AAPS Emerging Leader Award (2019). She received her PharmD and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Philipps-University of Marburg (Germany), where she was mentored by Dr. Thomas Kissel. She then trained at UCSF under Dr. Frank Szoka, where she was a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Postdoctoral Fellow.