Person
Rahaf Mihyar
M. Sc.Address
Building: CBMS
Room: 117
Forckenbeckstr. 55
52074 Aachen
Rahaf obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Jordan (Jordan) in 2020. Afterwards, she has been awarded an EMJMD scholarship to pursue the Master’s program in Nanomedicine for Drug Delivery between Université Paris Cité (France), University of Patras (Greece), Università di Pavia (Italy), and Université d’Angers (France). As part of her program, she did her thesis at ExMI under the supervision of Prof. Twan Lammers, obtaining a Master’s degree in Nanomedicine in 2022. In the same year, she joined ExMI as a PhD student, as part of the Research Training Group (RTG 2375) “Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery”. Her research is based on understanding drug delivery mechanisms of cancer (nano) medicines in dependence of tumor microenvironment and their influence on therapy outcome. In parallel, she is working on the formulation development of polymeric micelles to promote their clinical translation.