Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology/Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Elena Puris, PhD is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She received her PhD in Drug Research from University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland) in 2019. Since 2020, she has been working on her project as a Principal Investigator in the group of Prof. Fricker at the University of Heidelberg. Her research project focuses on investigating the roles of membrane transporters in drug delivery and pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Her work has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V. and Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Her research interests include investigating the membrane transporters and their impact on drug delivery and biochemical processes in health and pathological conditions, development of novel drug delivery strategies and studying molecular mechanisms underlying pathogenesis of CNS diseases. To date, she has authored more than 20 articles.