Dr Driton Vllasaliu

Reader in Biotherapeutic Delivery

King's College London

Biography

Driton’s interests centre around understanding and overcoming the biological barriers to improve drug delivery, with a key focus on oral biotherapeutics. He has specific interests in nanomedicines and exosomes, that potentially enable injection-free delivery. He is also interested in drug delivery for diseases of, or linked to, the gut. Driton is also interested in improved in vitro gut models, including organoids. He routinely collaborates with the pharmaceutical industry and his research has been funded by different UKRI councils, EU, charities and the industry. He is currently leading an Engineering Biology Mission Award on Exosome Engineering for oral RNA delivery.