Pharmaceutics; design and production of advanced drug delivery systems: polymeric nano- and micro-systems; liposomes, micelles and microemulsions; dry coating.

Short description of the research team

Thematic fields of interest/research areas:

Pharmaceutics; design and production of advanced drug delivery systems: polymeric nano- and micro-systems; liposomes, micelles and microemulsions; dry coating.

Biomaterials and encapsulation technologies: conduits for nerve repair; multifunctional microcapsules for islets entrapment; microfibres and microbeads for mesenchymal stem cells embedding.

Lab-on-a-chip design and applications: virtual prototyping; microfluidic chips.

Manager/head of the team: Prof. Claudio Nastruzzi

Team members: see web site at www.biomaterials.it

Research infrastructures:

The 2 research units namely: Biomaterial Laboratory and Bioencapsulation and Microfluidic Laboratory with a number of instruments and facilities for performing an effective research activity. The list of instruments includes: air-driven microencapsulators; automated vibrational microencapsulator; spray-drying; differential scanning calorimeter (DSC); light-scattering particle size analyser; stereo microscope with image analyzer and EDF; H-NMR and C-NMR spectrometers; optical microscopes; mass spettrometer; UV-NIR spectrophotometer; FT-IR spectrophotometer; HPLC Chromatographers; plate rheometer; freeze-dryer; microtube extrusors; homogenizers; laser granulometer.

Prerequisites of the trainee researcher:

Level of education: “Marie Curie Individual Fellowship” Action requirements.

Research experience: N/A

Required working language: N/A

Contacts: Prof. Claudio Nastruzzi, e-mail: biomatlab.fe@gmail.com