Juliane Nguyen

Juliane Nguyen is a professor at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and vice chair of the Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics (DPMP). She is also the Director of Graduate Admissions in DPMP at UNC at Chapel Hill.

Career
She received her pharmacy degree and PhD from Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany, completing her PhD in Thomas Kissel's group. After receiving her degrees, she completed a Post doc with Francis Szoka at University of California, San Francisco. Her research is focused on engineered live biotherapeutics, exosomes and lipid based drug delivery systems. She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2018 for her work as well as over $13M from the NIH and other funding sources. 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). Nguyen is a Fellow of the Controlled Release Society (2023) and a Fellow of AIMBE (2024).

Editorial Service

 * Executive Editor - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews - 2021 to present
 * Associate Editor at Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) - 2023
 * International Advisory Board for ChemMedChem - 2021 to present

Awards & Honors

 * Galenus Guest Professorship - ETH Zuerich - 2024
 * Elected Fellow - The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) - 2024
 * Elected Fellow - Controlled Release Society - 2023
 * Member of the NIH Drug and Biologic Therapeutic Delivery Study Section - 2023-2025
 * AAPS Emerging Leader Award - 2019
 * CMBE Young Innovator Award - BMES - 2019
 * NY-STAR Faculty Award - 2019
 * NSF CAREER Award - 2018 -2023
 * University at Buffalo – Exceptional Scholar Young Investigator Award - 2017