Susan Hawthorne

Biography:

Dr Susan Hawthorne is a lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science at Ulster University, United Kingdom. Her career began in the field of protease/peptide chemistry and she has been involved in research into breast and prostate cancer, the role of proteases in parasitic disease and, subsequently, the use of peptides as selective targeting agents for drug delivery. Her recent work has involved drug delivery for topical wound management, delivery of RNAi to breast cancer cells as an anti-proliferative and anti-invasive strategy, formulation of combined cancer chemotherapy polymersomes and development of CNS targeted drug delivery strategies.