Prof. Dr. Olivia Merkel

Since 2023 Co-Founder of RNhale GmbH
Since 2024: Vice-Director of the Department of Pharmacy, LMU Munich, Germany
Since 2022 Chair of Drug Delivery, LMU Munich, Germany
2016-2022 Professor of Drug Delivery, LMU Munich, Germany
2015-2016 Interim Professor of Drug Delivery, LMU Munich, Germany
2012-2017 Associate Faculty of Oncology, Wayne State University
2011-2017 Tenure-Track Professor of Pharmaceutics, Wayne State University
2009-2011 Postdoc/Habil Cand, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
2009 PhD in Pharmaceutics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
2006 MS in Pharmaceutics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Germany
2005 Board License as Pharmacist, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

2020-2021 President of the German Chapter of the Controlled Release Society (CRS)
2020-2022 Chair of the Transdermal and Mucosal Delivery (TMD) Focus Group of the CRS

Since 2021 Associate Editor for Drug Delivery and Translational Science
Since 2021 Associate Editor for WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology
Since 2020 Editorial Board Member for Molecular Pharmaceutics
Since 2017 Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Controlled Release
Since 2014 Editorial Board Member for the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Fellow of the College of Fellows of the Controlled Release Society since 2024
Recipient of the 2023 DDL Emerging Scientist Award
Recipient of the 2020 APV Research Award
Recipient of the 2020 PHOENIX Pharma Science Award in Pharmaceutical Technology

Outreach:
Checker Tobi - Der Medikamente-Check: Children's documetary in German
Besser Impfen: Podcast in German
Erbgutschnipsel sollen kranke Lungen reparieren: Bayern 2 am Samstagvormittag (Radio Interview) 2024 
Moderne Galenik: Wie die Tablette an den Wirkort kommt: LMU Children's University 2024
Was RNA alles kann und (noch) nicht kann: LMU Senior Studies 2023