Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Rice University
Houston, Texas, United States
Dr. Kevin McHugh is an Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research in the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University whose work has been featured in journals including Science, Science Translational Materials, Advanced Materials, and PNAS. Dr. McHugh received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2009 and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2014 where his Ph.D. work focused on developing tissue engineering scaffolds for retinal diseases. He then joined Dr. Robert Langer’s Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow where he developed vaccine delivery systems with an emphasis on applications in low-resource environments. At Rice, Dr. McHugh’s lab combines customized biodegradable materials and cutting-edge fabrication techniques to create novel drug delivery systems that overcome the limitations of current vaccine and drug formulations.
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Long-Acting Drug Delivery Formulations I
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CET
