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b"For centuries we\\u2019ve been using chemicals to improve health, but technology is set to transform the way medicine works. This month, five scientists on the cutting-edge of pharmaceutical research talk about the latest in gene therapy, cancer treatment and more.\\n\\nIjeoma Uchegbu\\xa0is a professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at UCL. Her research focuses on designing drugs that can cross the blood-brain barrier. She won the\\xa0Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year Award in 2012. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/people/professor-ijeoma-uchegbu\\n\\nCatherine Tuleu\\xa0is a professor of Paediatric Pharmaceutics at UCL. The main focus of her research\\xa0concerns\\xa0drug delivery systems for neonates, infants and children. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/people/professor-catherine-tuleu\\n\\nSejal Ranmal\\xa0is Director of Formulation at Intract Pharma, a science-driven licensing and product development company specialising in gastrointestinal models and state-of-the-art formulation technologies for development of advanced therapeutics. https://www.intractpharma.com/about-us\\n\\nStephen Hart\\xa0is a professor in Molecular Genetics at UCL. His research focuses on developing gene therapies for cardiovascular and respiratory disease, as well as cancer. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/research/genetics-genomic-medicine/experimental-personalised-medicine/research-groups/Prof-Stephen-Hart\\n\\nWafa Al-Jamal\\xa0is a reader in the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast.\\xa0Currently, her research focuses on developing smart vectors for delivering a broad range of therapeutic agents, and to fabricate multifunctional nanoparticles to target cancer and other diseases. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/wafa-aljamal(d931b6ec-d950-47da-bfb2-d2a6fd7a6aa7).html\\n\\nImage credit: Sun dazed on Flickr at\\xa0https://flickr.com/photos/8411191@N07/2277763683\\n\\nCheck out our website: http://www.rigb.org/\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science\\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalInstitution\\nAnd Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRoyalInstitution"