Devika S Manickam (she/her)

With much gratitude to mentors, collaborators and friends at @DuquesnePharm for years of kind support, I am excited to move our lab to @UTHealthHouston starting fall 2025! Onwards and upwards!

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The magic is in that last 20%.

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, it’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time when we fall down.” — Arianna Huffington #PushThroughTheFear

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” — Mother Teresa #YouMakeTheChange

Super-excited to attend and speak @GordonConf on Biomaterials and Tissue Engg.! Many thanks to @lola_UMich for this wonderful opportunity!@UTHealthHouston

We are hiring Assistant Professors (Lecturer Level B or Senior Lecturer Level C) at The University of Queensland in Australia in #Bioengineering, #BioprocessEngineering, #Biotechnology, and #BiomedicalEngineering Apply here: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/job/… #TenureTrack #FacultyJobs

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” — Bo Bennett #Authenticity

SO excited to share the final chapter of my PhD work! Here, we explore underlying physicochemical drivers behind RBC hitchhiking in whole blood, engaged by ionic liquid coated polymeric nanoparticles🩸 Shout out to my amazing labmates/coauthors 👏 lnkd.in/eAiFURp4

🧬Fantastic presentations at #CRS25 by Drs. Gallego-Perez & Higuita-Castro! A strong showing from @OhioStateERIK on recent advances in non-viral gene delivery and growing research in gene-based therapeutics. #genetherapy @dgpnanomedlab @nhc_nanomedlab

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” — Malala Yousafzai #YourVoiceIsPower

There is no passion to be found playing small.” - Nelson Mandela

So happy to see this year’s @crs_wis award winners at #CRS2025, @Labouta_Lab and @BenhabbourS 🥇🏅🏅 two incredible women in science who inspire and motivate the next generations! @CRSScience

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new" ― Dan Millman #LookAhead #KeepStriving

Three generations of @aimbe Presidents, I love working with this team! Past-President Joyce Wong (current Prez of @SFBiomaterials) President Lola Eniola-Adefeso President-Elect meeeeeeeeee

“Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s inspiring others to move beyond it.” ― Nelson Mandella

Another good run of pubs! We push innovations for therapeutically boosted EVs: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… We show delivery of NK EVs by MNs: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… And demonstrate clinically relevant dosing for miR-145 micelles: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Nice work Team! 👏

Looking forward to tomorrow’s Titans of the Controlled Release Society @CRSScience Session 2! I’m pleased and honored to share the stage with my dear friends and colleagues Tamara Minko and Muzykantov. Just realized that all three of us were born and raised in the former USSR -…

Titans of the Controlled Release Society CRS Session 1 Celebrating five pioneering scientists whose groundbreaking research has shaped controlled drug delivery and nanomedicine over six decades: Henry Kopecek, @Maria Jose Alonso, @Yvonne Perrie, @H_Ghandehari Hamid Ghandehari,…

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.” ― Michelle Obama #DefineYourself

60k books in our football stadium… @RiceUniversity is just different! 📕📗📘📙📖📚📓📒📔 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 📕📗📘📙📖📚📓📒📔 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 📕📗📘📙📖📚📓📒📔 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 📕📗📘📙📖📚📓📒📔 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 📕📗📘📙📖📚📓📒📔 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 📕📗📘📙📖📚📓📒📔