Mitali Kakran was born in 1986 in India. After being awarded the full Undergraduate Scholarship by the Singapore Airlines for outstanding results in her GCE O & A Levels, she went on to study her Bachelors in Singapore. She graduated from The Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) with First Class Honors from the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, major in Bioengineering in 2008.

She started her PhD student in August 2008 from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. Her current research interests include fabrication of micro/nano-particles for pharmaceutical applications with the main aim to enhance the bioavailability of the drugs by improving their aqueous dissolution rate or by targeted delivery of the drug compounds.

SEM photographs: drug nanoparticles, hydrophilic polymer coated drug particles.

Hp: +65 - 91023778, +65 - 67905336
Email: mita0003@ntu.edu.sg, mitalikakran@yahoo.co.in