nano merics Precision Medicines
Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu HonFRSC Senior Scientist & Project Leader
Ijeoma Uchegbu FMedSci is UCL’s Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a governor on the Wellcome board (one of the world’s largest biomedical sciences research charities), a council member of both the Academy of Medical Sciences and the BBSRC and Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics Ltd. She has studied the mechanisms of drug transport across biological barriers and created transformational drug transport nanoparticles. She has served as Chair of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and chaired EPSRC and Science Foundation Ireland grant prioritisation panels. Uchegbu is the immediate past UCL Provost’s Envoy for Race Equality, a role in which she led on race equality work at UCL. Uchegbu has also presented to the UK House of Commons on the educational racial disparities that lead to a lack of ethnic minority representation in scientific research.
Dr Mikie Kukwikila MRSC Senior Scientist – Protein Sequencing
Mikie Kukwikila is a Senior Scientist at Oxford Nanopore Technologies ONT. Mikie received her undergraduate degree in Medicinal Chemistry from UCL and remained at the same institution to earn a PhD in Chemical Biology. Following her PhD, Mikie worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Southampton in Chemical Biology and Nucleotide Chemistry. Mikie started her career at Oxford Nanopore Technologies in 2017. She joined initially as a Research Scientist synthesising nucleotides before being promoted to Senior Scientist in 2020. In 2022, Mikie joined the Protein Sequencing team where she uses her chemical knowledge to help develop this novel technology
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