Mária Deli - Biography#

Mária Deli is a scientific adviser and leader of the Biological Barrier Research Group in the Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary. She graduated with summa cum laude in medicine at the Szent-Györgyi Albert Medical School in Szeged, Hungary in 1988. She joined the blood-brain barrier research group of Prof. Ferenc Joó in BRC in 1990 and obtained her PhD in this field in 1996. She has worked for 2.5 years as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Pharmacology, Nagasaki University, Japan led by Prof. Masami Niwa where she studied the effect of prion and beta-amyloid peptides on the blood-brain barrier. In 2001 she returned to BRC and established her own team. She received Dr. habil. degree from the University of Szeged in 2011 and DSc from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2013. She is honorary professor at the University of Szeged since 2016.

Her research activity is mainly focused on the study of biological barrier dysfunction in disease conditions and finding synthetic or natural protective molecules to restore barrier integrity. Her research projects include drug delivery across barriers by opening tight intercellular junctions and targeted drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier by nanoparticles. She pioneered and patented a triple co-culture BBB model with Japanese partners. Her current research interests include multidisciplinary projects using microfluidic chip devices integrating barrier models with brain organoids to study pathologies, like Parkinson's disease and test protective targeted nanoparticles in international cooperations.

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