Dr Khuloud Al-Jamal
Lecturer in Nanomedicine
Phone number: +44(0)207 848 4525
Email address: khuloud.al-jamal@kcl.ac.uk
King's Postal Address:
Institute of Pharmaceutical Science
King's College London
5th Floor
Franklin-Wilkins Building
150 Stamford Street
London SE1 9NH
About Dr Al-Jamal
Dr. Khuloud T. Al-Jamal, Bsc (Honour), PhD, MRPharmS is a lecturer in Nanomedicine. She has completed her pre-registration pharmacy training at The University College London Hospital and was awarded the Overseas Research Award Scheme (ORSA) Scholarship from The University of London (2000-2004) to complete her PhD in Drug Delivery from The School of Pharmacy, University of London under the supervision of Professor Alexander T Florence (2005).
She was awarded the CW Maplethorpe Research and Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship from The University of London (2005-2007) to explore the use of cationic dendrimers as anti-angiogenic agents for growth inhibition of solid & metastatic tumours. She has worked closely with Professor K Kostarelos and was a founding member of The Nanomedicine Lab (2005-2010).
She has developed an extensive experience in designing and developing novel nanoscale delivery systems including dendrimers, liposomes, quantum Dots (QDs), viral vectors and chemically functionalised carbon nanotubes. Her current work involves pre-clinical translation of novel nanomaterials designed specifically for drug, siRNA, plasmid and radionuclide delivery for therapeutic or diagnostic applications. She reported for the first time the intrinsic anti-angiogenic activity of cationic poly-L-lysine dendrimers, and pioneered surface engineering of carbon nanotube-based vectors to deliver siRNA materials to the central nervous system (CNS) and solid tumours in vivo.
She was awarded and managed a number of research projects funded by EPSRC, FP6 and FP7 research programmes. In February 2012, she was awarded the BBSRC New Investigator award and is a partner in the Initial Training Network Marie Curie Programme “RADDEL” (http://www.icmab.es/raddel/).