Research Overview
The Poon Lab works broadly in the field of drug delivery, combining materials engineering, medicine, and genomics approaches to tackle this unsolved problem in therapy. Our research goal is to design improved drug carriers to deliver medical agents to specific cellular sites and molecular targets in the body. To do this, we study how biology informs nanoparticle-based drug carrier design. Understanding and overcoming biological barriers at the cellular- and molecular-level is necessary for achieving targeted delivery of drugs and biologics in disease treatment. Our vision is to use nanoparticle-biological interaction data and computational analyses to guide future nanomaterial designs and delivery strategies in the clinic.