Tarek Fahmy, PhD

Yale University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, New Haven, CT

2008 New Treatments

Dr. Fahmy and colleagues have a highly novel idea on how to design nanoparticles—tiny “magic bullets” about the size of a virus—to target and deliver drugs to the disease-causing cells that foment inflammation in lupus.

Scientists believe this work represents the “tip of the iceberg in new drug delivery systems” and opens the door to developing less toxic and more efficient treatments for lupus.

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