Dr. Alyssa Master has ten years of laboratory research experience including five years as a lab manager prior to joining Nucleus Biologics. As a biomaterials engineer, her area of expertise is in the field of nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery, particularly for the delivery of cancer therapeutics. In graduate school, Alyssa was the recipient of both the Medtronic Fellowship and the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship. During these fellowships, Alyssa developed a novel targeted drug delivery platform for intravenous delivery of photodynamic therapy agents. Following graduate school, Alyssa completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy. Alyssa has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.