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Divya Bijukumar, PhD

Translational Oncology Research Program

Assistant Professor 
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Medicine

Email: drbiju2@uic.edu

Divya Bijukumar, PhD, MS, is Assistant Professor (RT) at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford, a UIC regional campus, and Principal Investigator of the College of Medicine’s Blazer Nanomedicine Lab in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Her major research focus is on the mechanism of cell-nanomaterial interaction and biocompatibility studies on biomedical implants. She was trained as a nanobiotechnologist and nano surface modification of implants, nanotoxicology and drug delivery. Her lab has focused on developing a nano-drug delivery system for retinal diseases, arthritis and cancer. She has worked on developing transcytosis receptor-targeted hybrid nanomaterials that can cross the blood-retinal barrier for brain tumor therapy. She has previously worked on different nano systems for leukemia and prostate cancer therapeutics. Additionally, she has collaborated and worked on a novel lipid nanoparticle delivery system for T-oligo to treat melanoma.

Language : English, Hindi, Malayalam

Education

  • PhD, Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Tamil Nadu, India

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Research Focus

  • Translational Oncology
  • Drug Delivery
  • Brain Tumor
  • Cancer
  • Cancer Prevention and Control