Institute of Pharmacy, Leipzig University
Michaela Schulz-Siegmund is a pharmacist by training. She received her doctorate in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. From 1997 to 2003, she was a research assistant in Prof. Göpferich's group at the University of Regensburg and qualified as a professor in 2004. During this time, she spent a research stay with Prof. Mikos at Rice University, Houston, Texas. 2003-2006 she was a visiting/contract professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria. Since 2007 she is full professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at Leipzig University. Since 2010, she is head of the Institute of Pharmacy in Leipzig.
Michaela Schulz-Siegmund was president of the German Chapter of the Controlled Release Society 2019/20. She is Head of the Saxonian Chapter of the German Pharmaceutical Society. She is currently an elected member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) review board.
Her major research fields are biomaterial design for tissue engineering and controlled release systems for nucleic acids. Her focus in bone tissue engineering is on human mesenchymal stem cells and siRNA as a tool to control differentiation. She is also interested in siRNA transfection systems, including stabilized Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles and Extracellular Vesicles.