Dr. Nazila Kamaly

Biography

Nazila Kamaly joined Imperial College London Department of Chemistry as faculty in 2019. She previously held positions at the Technical University of Denmark, where she was awarded the Lundbeck Fellowship to develop targeted nanomedicines. Prior to that, she completed an instructor postdoc at Harvard Medical School and MIT from 2011 to 2016. She also conducted her PhD in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London and holds an MSci degree in Medicinal Chemistry from University College London. Her research focuses on the development of nanomedicines, involving multidisciplinary approaches that utilize bioinspired techniques to synthesize targeted multifunctional polymeric nanoparticles. These biomaterials are designed to alter their surface and core properties in response to local disease markers, enabling stimuli-responsive and spatiotemporally controlled drug delivery. The Kamaly lab also investigates the use of biomicrofluidics for on-chip biological investigations.

Research Interests