Replacing injections with pills
Since September 2016, she has been looking for new ways to treat the congenital metabolic disorder phenylketonuria as postdoc in ETH Professor Jean-Christophe Leroux’s research group.
Irene Pereira de Sousa is researching new ways to administer medicines orally.
In 2015, Pereira de Sousa received the Principality of Liechtenstein’s prize for outstanding scientific research for her work. She was also selected as an ETH fellow by ETH Zurich and she was awarded a grant for two years in order to continue her research.
Since September 2016, she has been looking for new ways to treat the congenital metabolic disorder phenylketonuria as postdoc in ETH Professor Jean-Christophe Leroux’s research group.
“I worked on a nanocarrier that transported drugs safely into the intestine and through the intestinal mucus into the blood, where they could be absorbed and take effect,…..”