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Background
Tania Betancourt was born and grew up in Bogota, Colombia. She obtained her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2002. She worked at DuPont de Nemours as a co-op for eleven months and as an operations engineer immediately after graduation. She joined the laboratory of Dr. Lisa Brannon-Peppas in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of The University of Texas at Austin in 2003 and obtained her Ph.D. in 2007. Her doctoral research was on the development of biodegradable nanoparticles for targeted delivery of imaging and therapeutic agents to ovarian cancer. She joined the laboratory of Dr. Nicholas Peppas as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008.
Research Summary
Publications
T. Betancourt,
A. Doiron and L. Brannon-Peppas, “Polymeric
Nanoparticles for Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery,” in:
Nanotechnology in Cancer Therapeutics, M. M. Amiji,
ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL., 2006.
T. Betancourt
and L. Brannon-Peppas, “Micro- and Nanofabrication
Methods in Nanotechnological Medical and
Pharmaceutical Devices,” International Journal of
Nanomedicine, 2006, 1(4) 483-495.
T. Betancourt,
B. Brown and L. Brannon-Peppas, “Doxorubicin-loaded
PLGA nanoparticles by nanoprecipitation:
preparation, characterization and in vitro
evaluation,” Nanomedicine, 2007: 2(2),
219-232.
A. Doiron, T.
Betancourt, K. Homan and L. Brannon-Peppas,
“Controlled Release and Nanotechnology,” in:
Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, M. M. de Villiers,
P. Aramwit and G. S. Kwon, eds., in press.
T. Betancourt,
J. Byrne, N. Sunaryo, S. Crowder, M. Kadapakkam, S.
Patel, S. Casciato and L. Brannon-Peppas,
“Optimization of PEGylation Strategies of PLA/PLGA
Nanoparticles for Active Targeting,” Journal of
Biomedical Materials Research – Part B, submitted.
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