Amanda Silva Brun

Amanda Silva obtained a degree in Pharmacy in 2005 and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology in 2008 both from UFRN, Natal, Brazil and a second PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2010 concerning polysaccharides for thermo-controlled cell culture at Université d’Evry/Université Paris V. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow on drug-loaded magnetic EVs for image-guided therapy. She is currently a tenured CNRS researcher and works on EVs engineered with nanoparticles and drugs as drug delivery vectors for cancer therapy and regenerative medicine. She has 47 publications, 2 book chapters, 6 pending patents, > 1 000 citations and a H-factor of 19.