Dr Gayathri Ediriweera

Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Li, Mengdie, Fletcher, Nicholas L., Houston, Zachary H., Ahamed, Muneer, Blakey, Idriss and Thurecht, Kristofer J. (2025). Harnessing nanoparticles and bioorthogonal chemistries for improving precision of nuclear medicine. Biomaterials Science. doi: 10.1039/d4bm01387e

Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Chang, Yixin, Yang, Wenting, Whittaker, Andrew K. and Fu, Changkui (2025). Self-assembled protein–polymer nanoparticles via photoinitiated polymerization-induced self-assembly for targeted and enhanced drug delivery in cancer therapy. Molecules, 30 (4) 856, 856. doi: 10.3390/molecules30040856

Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Sivaram, Amal J., Cowin, Gary, Brown, Mikayla L., McAlary, Luke, Lum, Jeremy S., Fletcher, Nicholas L., Robinson, Liam, Simpson, Joshua D., Chen, Liyu, Wasielewska, Joanna M., Byrne, Ella, Finnie, John W., Manavis, Jim, White, Anthony R., Yerbury, Justin J., Thurecht, Kristofer J. and Vine, Kara L. (2025). Lipid nanoparticles and transcranial focused ultrasound enhance the delivery of SOD1 antisense oligonucleotides to the murine brain for ALS therapy. Journal of Controlled Release, 378, 221-235. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2024.11.074

Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Butcher, Neville J., Kothapalli, Ashok, Zhao, Jiacheng, Blanchfield, Joanne T., Subasic, Christopher N., Grace, James L., Fu, Changkui, Tan, Xiao, Quinn, John F., Ascher, David B., Whittaker, Michael R., Whittaker, Andrew K. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2024). Lipid sulfoxide polymers as potential inhalable drug delivery platforms with differential albumin binding affinity. Biomaterials Science, 12 (11), 2978-2992. doi: 10.1039/d3bm02020g

Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Chang, Yixin, Wang, Qiaoyun, Gong, Yutong, Akhter, Dewan T., Pang, Huiwen, Han, Felicity Y., Chen, Chunying, Whittaker, Andrew K. and Fu, Changkui (2023). Stimuli-responsive sulfoxide polymer–protein conjugates with improved pharmacokinetics and tumor delivery. Chemistry of Materials, 35 (17), 7252-7265. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01566

Wang, Qiaoyun, Yu, Ye, Chang, Yixin, Xu, Xin, Wu, Min, Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Peng, Hui, Zhen, Xu, Jiang, Xiqun, Searles, Debra J., Fu, Changkui and Whittaker, Andrew K. (2023). Fluoropolymer-MOF hybrids with switchable hydrophilicity for 19F MRI-monitored cancer therapy. ACS Nano, 17 (9), 8483-8498. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c00694

Chang, Yixin, Wang, Qiaoyun, Xu, Weizhi, Huang, Xumin, Xu, Xin, Han, Felicity Y., Qiao, Ruirui, Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Peng, Hui, Fu, Changkui, Liu, Kun and Whittaker, Andrew K. (2022). Low-fouling gold nanorod theranostic agents enabled by a sulfoxide polymer coating. Biomacromolecules, 23 (9), 3866-3874. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.2c00696

Simpson, Joshua D., Currin-Ross, Denni L., Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Schirra, Horst Joachim, Fletcher, Nicholas L., Bell, Craig A., Arno, Maria C. and Thurecht, Kristofer J. (2021). Cyanine-5-driven behaviours of hyperbranched polymers designed for therapeutic delivery are cell-type specific and correlated with polar lipid distribution in membranes. Nanomaterials, 11 (7) 1745, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/nano11071745

Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Chen, Liyu, Yerbury, Justin J., Thurecht, Kristofer J. and Vine, Kara L. (2021). Non-viral vector-mediated gene therapy for ALS: challenges and future perspectives. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 18 (6), 2142-2160. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00297

Simpson, Joshua D., Monteiro, Patrícia F., Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Prior, Amber R., Sonderegger, Stefan E., Bell, Craig A., Fletcher, Nicholas L., Alexander, Cameron and Thurecht, Kristofer J. (2021). Fluorophore selection and incorporation contribute to permeation and distribution behaviors of hyperbranched polymers in multi-cellular tumor spheroids and xenograft tumor models. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 4 (3) acsabm.0c01616, 2675-2685. doi: 10.1021/acsabm.0c01616

Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Simpson, Joshua D., Fuchs, Adrian V., Venkatachalam, Taracad K., Van De Walle, Matthias, Howard, Christopher B., Mahler, Stephen M., Blinco, James P., Fletcher, Nicholas L., Houston, Zachary H., Bell, Craig A. and Thurecht, Kristofer J. (2020). Targeted and modular architectural polymers employing bioorthogonal chemistry for quantitative therapeutic delivery. Chemical Science, 11 (12), 3268-3280. doi: 10.1039/d0sc00078g

Simpson, Joshua D., Ediriweera, Gayathri R., Howard, Christopher B., Fletcher, Nicholas L., Bell, Craig A. and Thurecht, Kristofer J. (2019). Polymer design and component selection contribute to uptake, distribution & trafficking behaviours of polyethylene glycol hyperbranched polymers in live MDA-MB-468 breast cancer cells. Biomaterials Science, 7 (11), 4661-4674. doi: 10.1039/c9bm00957d

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