Sazid Hussain,
Research Assistant Professor
Research Assistant Professor 04/2018-Present
Sanford Burnham Prebys Med Institute (SBP), La Jolla, San Diego, USA
I have been employing in vivo phage-display to screen peptide libraries to identify new homing peptides and disease-specific biomarkers in traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease and bacterial infections. These newly identified peptides are currently being employed for imaging and delivery of therapeutics with nanoparticles.
CSO & Co-Founder 02/2016-Present
AivoCode Inc, La Jolla, CA, USA
The main focus area is on developing novel platforms to enable directed delivery of therapeutics into brain injuries.
Research Specialist (with Prof. Erkki Ruoslahti) 07/2014-03/2018
Sanford Burnham Prebys Med Institute (SBP), La Jolla, San Diego, USA
Scientist II (Project Leader) 11/2011-5/2014
Invictus Oncology, New Delhi, INDIA
Postdoctoral Fellow (with Prof. Erkki Ruoslahti) 12/2008-10/2011
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA
PhD in Biochemistry 9/2001-12/2007
Biochemistry Institute, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Advisors: Prof. Andreas Pluckthun and Prof. Uwe Zangemeister-Wittke
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