Contact Information
Mailing Address
Prof. Tatiana Segura
420 Westwood Plaza
5531 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Lab
7524 Boelter Hall
(310) 794-2248
Office
5532-C Boelter Hall
(310) 206 3980
Dr. Tatiana Segura is a native of Bogotá, Colombia. She received her diploma from the Escuela Pedagogia Experimental (EPE), an experimental educational school in Bogotá, Colombia. Dr. Segura began her scientific training at the University of California, Berkeley where she received a BS in Bioengineering and a minor in Chemical Engineering. She later obtained her Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. Segura pursued postdoctoral research training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. She joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at UCLA in July 2006.
Mailing Address:
420 Westwood Plaza
5531 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA
90095
Phone: (310) 206 3980
email: tsegura@ucla.edu
Education
1999 BS Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley
1999 Minor Chemical Engineering, University of California Berkeley
2004 Ph.D Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University
Employment
2006 Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Switzerland Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey A. Hubbell
2002 Scientist Intern Biomaterials Group Genzyme Corporation Cambridge, MA
Principal Investigator: Bob Miller
1999 Research Associate, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Principal Investigator: Lonnie D. Shea
Awards and Honors
2009 American Society of Gene Therapy Young Investigator Award
2008 NSF CAREER award “Hydrogels for Matrix-Tethered Gene Delivery”
2004 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
2003 Dissertation Henderson Fellowship, Northwestern University
2001 National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Biotechnology Training Grant
Patents
Shea, LD and Segura, T, "Surface Associated Delivery of Genes and Oligonucleotides," US No. 6,890,556
Segura, T., Shea, LD., Bengali, Z., Anderson, B., Pannier, AK., Chung, PC, and Jang, JH. "Controlled Surface-Associated Delivery Of Genes And Oligonucleotides" US No. 7,029,697
Segura, T Hubbell JA, "Triblock Copolymers for Cytoplasmic Delivery of Gene-Based Drugs" 60/686,188
Research
Tatiana Segura, Ph.D.