I received my MSc degree in 2015 in Food Science at the Corvinus University of Budapest.

In 2022, I obtained my PhD in Food Biotechnology, conducting my research at the Szent Istvan University (now: Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences) under the supervision of Dr Erika Bujna and Dr Szilard Kun.

From 2021 to 2024, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, the University of Birmingham, collaborating with Dr Richard Horniblow. My research during this period focused on developing new oral-administrable live biotherapeutics capable of delivering highly viable anaerobic gut bacteria to the colon, with potential clinical applications for treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

From 2025, I joined the Quadram Institute as a Project Scientist to work with Prof Arjan Narbad and Dr Melinda Mayer, in collaboration with a material innovation company based in Cambridge.

Key publications

Ta, L. P., Corrigan S., Horniblow, R. D. (2024): “Novel pectin-carboxymethylcellulose-based double-layered mucin/chitosan microcomposites successfully protect the next-generation probiotic Akkermansia muciniphila through simulated gastrointestinal transit and alters microbial communities within colonic ex vivo bioreactors”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS, 124670. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2024.124670

Ta, L. P., Corrigan, S., Tselepis, C., Iqbal, T., Ludwig, C., & Horniblow, R. D. (2024): “Gastrointestinal-inert prebiotic micro-composites improve the growth and community diversity of mucosal-associated bacteria.” JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE, S0168-3659. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2024.09.021

Ta, L. P., Bujna, E., Kun, S., Charalampopoulos, D., & Khutoryanskiy, V. V. (2021): “Electrosprayed mucoadhesive alginate-chitosan microcapsules for gastrointestinal delivery of probiotics”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS, 597, 120342. , Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2021.120342

Ta, L. P., Bujna, E., Antal, O., Ladányi, M., … & Nguyen, Q. D. (2021): “Effects of various polysaccharides (alginate, carrageenan, gums, chitosan) and their combination with prebiotic saccharides (resistant starch, lactosucrose, lactulose) on the encapsulation of probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus casei 01 strain.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES, 183, 1136-1144. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.04.170