Muro Galindo, Silvia
ICREA Professor - IBEC Group Leader at Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC).
Life & Medical Sciences
Short biography
Dr. Muro obtained her PhD in Sciences from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, then was a Research Assistant Professor in Pharmacology in the University of Pennsylvania, and then a Tenured Associate Professor in the University of Maryland. Since November 2017, she is an ICREA Professor in the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia. She has published 90+ articles and chapters in drug delivery and received awards from the Controlled Release Society, the American Society for Nanomedicine, has been a member of the USA NIH Nanomedicine Study Section and is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Research interests
Dr. Muro's research sits at the interface between cellular biology, nanotechnology, and drug delivery. She studies the biological mechanisms ruling how our tissues transport cargoes within our bodies and applies this knowledge to design of nanodevices for delivery of therapeutics to specific disease sites. Focusing on genetic conditions that cause metabolic, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular syndromes, as well as on a new transport pathway she helped discover, her goal is to gain efficient access within the body and its cells, to enable effective treatment of these life-threatening disorders.