Andrew Draganski

Andrew Draganski PhD completed his Ph.D. in Food Science at Rutgers where he focused on studying molecular mobility in model biological systems utilizing both intrinsic and GRAS-status optical probes. Soon thereafter, he joined Dr. Joel Friedman's laboratory at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; there, he worked on the advancement and further characterization of the lab's novel drug delivery platform, eventually becoming the primary inventor of the company’s Z-pod™ delivery technology. Now Director of Product Development at Zylö, he is spearheading commercialization efforts as he studies the effect of particle size, charge distribution, surface functionalization, drug loading, and pore size on the subsequent interaction of silica particles with cells and tissues.