Santosh Aryal University of Texas at Tyler, USA
Dr. Santosh Aryal received his Ph.D. in Bionanosystem Engineering from Chonbuk National University, the Republic of Korea in 2007. He was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Nanoengineering and the Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego. After that, he moved to the Department of Translation Imaging, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, where he was working in the broad spectrum of Nanomedicine for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and vascular diseases. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. After completing six years of independent research as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and the Nanotechnology Innovation Center of Kansas State (NICKS), Dr. Aryal joined the University of Texas at Tyler (UT-Tyler) as an Associate Professor of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Health Outcomes. At UT-Tyler, his research group is continuously working to address a fundamental question in drug delivery: how medicine is robustly tuned to communicate with the immune system for cooperative treatment. Research activities in Aryal Lab are supported by the University of Texas, National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Institute of Health (NIH).
