Madhulika Banerjee

Madhulika Banerjee is a Graduate Student Researcher at Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation and a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh under the mentorship of Dr. Lisa Rohan and Dr. Sravan Kumar Patel. She completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy from the Institute of Chemical Technology, India. Madhulika is deeply passionate about translational pharmaceutical research, with a strong focus on developing innovative, long-acting drug delivery systems to address critical healthcare challenges. Her master’s thesis centered on the design and development of polymeric, long-acting implantable devices for HIV prevention. Her research experience spans polymeric nanoparticle formulation, thin-film development and characterization, and analytical method development using NIR-chemometrics, UV-Vis spectroscopy, and HPLC. She is particularly interested in bridging formulation science, advanced analytical techniques, and scalable manufacturing approaches to translate promising drug delivery platforms into real-world clinical solutions.