DrNazila Kamaly

Dr Nazila Kamaly, joined Imperial College London Department of Chemisty as faculty in 2019. She was previously at the Technical University of Denmark, where she was awarded a Lundbeck Fellowship to develop targeted nanomedicines. Before that she held Instructor and Postdoc positions at Harvard Medical School and MIT from 2011-2016. Previous to this she held a Postdoc position and also conducted her PhD in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London, and holds an MSci degree in Medicinal Chemistry from University College London. She has been developing nanomedicines, nanodiagnostics and nanotheranostics for almost 2 decades.

Research in the Kamaly group is highly multidisciplinary and uses bioinspired approaches to synthesise targeted multi-functional polymeric nanoparticles and biomaterials capable of changing their surface or core properties in response to local or up-regulated disease markers for stimuli-responsive and spatiotemporally controlled drug delivery. These nanoparticles are synthesised using bottom-up nanopolymerisation reactions. The lab also investigates the use of biomicrofuidics for on-chip investigation of biology.