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Dr Yan Shen

Dr Yan Shen

Department of Pharmaceutics, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China

Dr. Yan Shen is an Associate Professor of the Department of Pharmaceutics at the China Pharmaceutical University. Her research interests focus on the design of theranostic nanoplatform for tumor treatment, developing new excipients and technologies for micro-particulate formulations as pulmonary inhaled preparations (i.e. Dry Powder Inhalations), and efficient nonviral carriers for siRNA delivery. Dr. Shen has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers, 2 patents, and 2 book chapters. Her research was rewarded with the Third Prize Award of Oncology Medicine Science and Technology in the Jiangsu Province in 2016 and the Shimazu Young Scholar Award in 2019.

She completed her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics at China Pharmaceutical University. Then she worked as a faculty member in China Pharmaceutical University from 2010 and served as a visiting scholar at Northeastern University for one year from 2016 to 2017. She received her MS and BS degrees from the China Pharmaceutical University in 2007 and 2004, respectively.

Updated 31 August 2023