Vilma Petrikaitė is Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Head of Preclinical Research Center of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and senior researcher at Life Sciences Center of Vilnius University. For 4 years she was President of the Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers and actively promoted Open Access by participating in several initiatives.
Vilma got her PhD degree in Pharmacy. She has gained a lot of experience in research institutions overseas, e.g., in the frame of BAFF program at Houston Methodist Research Institute in USA, also for several months at the cancer research institute in Barcelona and as a visiting researcher at Colorado University Denver, USA. Recently Vilma gained experience in the field of nanomedicine during her scholarship in Helsinki University. Vilma’s main research interests are drug activity and transport in tumor microenvironment, targeted cancer nanosystems, tumor 2D, 3D cell and animal models.