Pegah Varamini
Lecturer
The University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr Pegah Varamini is a lecturer and group leader in Cancer Theme within the Faculty of Pharmacy. She is the leader of Cancer Targeting-Drug Delivery Group. Dr Varamini was awarded the prestigious National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) fellowship in Jan 2016. She completed her PhD degree in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology in December 2012 (UQ, Australia). She also has a professional Doctorate degree in Pharmacy (PharmD). She won Dean’s Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence in 2013. Dr Varamini’s work was selected by the Australian Academy of Science in August 2016, resulting in her personal presentation at the inaugural Falling Walls Lab in Canberra (a gathering of 25 selected Australian and New Zealand researchers, entrepreneurs, engineers and innovators). She has been the Collaboration Award Finalist at Sydney University in 2017.
Research Interest
Dr Varamini’s research interests and expertise are in different areas of pharmaceutical sciences including Cancer Targeting, Drug Design and Drug Delivery, Nano-Medicine/Nano-Formulation, Vaccine Delivery, and Natural Product Chemistry. Her major research focuses are: 1) targeted delivery of highly potent antineoplastic agents to breast cancer cells for the treatment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) and advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) via some overexpressed receptors (“Trojan Horse†approach); 2) development of advanced formulations for prevention and targeted therapy of breast cancer bone metastasis.