Dr. Aji Alex

Aji is originally from a southern state of India named Kerala and has a background in formulation development with a focus on polymer chemistry. He completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London (UK), Virginia Commonwealth University (US), and the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He has joined NIBRT to undertake a 3-year CURAM research grant (Medtrain); his work will be focused on engineering small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) for brain-targeted delivery of microRNAs. He will be working under the supervision of Prof. Niall Barron and Prof. Mark Smales for his project.