Advances and Challenges of Liposome Assisted Drug Delivery

Lisa Sercombe1,2, Tejaswi Veerati3,4, Fatemeh Moheimani1,2, Sherry Y. Wu4, Anil K. Sood5,6,4, Susan Hua1,2
1Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
2The School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
3Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
4Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
5Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNAs, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
6Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

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