Professor and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco. She is widely recognized as one of US´ top young scientists winning distinctions such as the National Academy of Engineering frontiers award in 2001 and selected Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10″ Top Scientists in the Nation 2003. Her work in using nanotechnology to make minute medical devices, such as a miniature artificial pancreas, could revolutionize diabetic treatment, making needles a thing of the past. In her work she pushes her technologies integrating clinical and innovative aspects winning her the Eurand Grand Prize Award for Innovative Approaches to Drug Delivery.