Biography:
Sareena Naganand is an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University pursuing a combined Bachelors and Masters in Biomedical Engineering. Her research interests are in drug delivery, with the goal of improving nanoparticle drug delivery formulations for improved transfection and enhanced therapeutic efficacy. Sareena has worked on developing five component lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) with the goal of having anti-inflammatory effects in pancreatic beta cells and B cells – two cell types involved in the progression of Type 1 Diabetes. For this work, she received a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award and funding from Zymo Research. Currently, she’s leveraging machine learning to optimize LNP composition and chemistry.
Title : High throughput optimization of cell-specific lipid nanoparticles through learning to rank