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Tania Betancourt, PhD, Team Leader,
has over 7 years of experience in the field of polymer synthesis, polymeric nanoparticles, environmentally-responsive polymers, biomaterials, drug
delivery, cell-biomaterial interaction and surface functionalization. She
has experience in the characterization of materials for biomedical
applications by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, gel permeation
chromatography (GPC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Fourier transform
infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), dynamic light scattering (DLS), scanning and
transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM). She is also skilled in the
evaluation of biomaterials by sterile cell culture, cytotoxicity assays,
fluorescence and confocal microscopy, and flow cytometry. Dr. Betancourt
obtained her B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University
in 2002. She then obtained M.S. in biomedical engineering in 2005 and a
Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering in 2007 from The University of Texas
at Austin. Her doctoral work was on the development of biodegradable
long-circulating nanoparticles for targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic and
imaging agents to ovarian cancer. After her doctoral studies, Dr.
Betancourt worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the development of
pH-responsive complexation hydrogels for oral delivery of therapeutics at
The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Betancourt has authored three
peer-reviewed journal articles, two review articles, and two book chapters.
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