Erik Oude Blenke
Associate Principle Scientist
AstraZeneca
Erik Oude Blenke obtained his PhD from University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, writing his thesis on Lipid Nanoparticles for Intracellular Delivery of RNA Therapeutics. After a short time at ProQR Therapeutics in Leiden, the Netherlands, where he worked on inhaled delivery of oligonucleotides, he moved to AstraZeneca R&D in Gothenburg, Sweden at the end of 2018. At the department of Advanced Drug Delivery in Pharmaceutical Sciences, he worked on several projects in the Moderna collaboration, exploring mRNA therapeutics for various targets. He has also been closely involved in the development of AstraZeneca’s internal delivery platform and is currently part of a team working of further optimization of LNP formulations for new applications, such as therapeutic gene editing, vaccines and others.