Margaret Holme is exploring how our cells produce tiny messengers known as extracellular vesicles — built from fat molecules — and how to engineer synthetic versions. With carefully designed nanobubbles, biological drugs can be delivered precisely to targeted cells in the body. The technology is already used to treat certain diseases, but with a broader range of vesicles in the toolbox, many more conditions could potentially be treated.
In the Verapodden podcast, Margaret Holme shares her hopes for the technology, her journey from Scotland to Chalmers University of Technology, and why Gothenburg is a particularly strong hub for extracellular vesicle research.
Margaret Holme is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Chemical Biology at the Department of Life Sciences.
This this episode of Verapodden is in English. The intro is in English and Swedish.
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