Dr Jenny Lam is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics at the UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London. Jenny obtained her MPharm and PhD from The University of Nottingham. In her PhD study, she investigated the use of non-viral vectors for gene delivery. Jenny was then awarded the Maplethorpe Fellowship, continued her research in nucleic acid delivery at King’s College London. She then joined the University of Hong Kong as Assistant Professor to help setting up a Bachelor of Pharmacy Programme and returned to the UK in 2022.
Jenny’s research is focused on the development of novel delivery system for a wide range of therapeutics including small molecules, nucleic acids and biologics, with special interest in the use of particle engineering methods to produce aerosol formulations for the treatment/prevention of respiratory diseases. She is the principal investigator of a number of competitive grants. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles and filed a number of patent applications on pulmonary drug delivery systems. In 2020, she was awarded the DDL (Drug Delivery to the Lungs) Emerging Scientist Award which recognised her significant accomplishment and innovation in inhalation science.