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Ana Rita Ramalho Figueiras

Ana Rita Ramalho Figueiras

Editorial Board Member
University of Coimbra Portugal Member since 2018

Biography

Ana Rita Figueiras has obtained her Ph.D degree from the University of
Coimbra, and is Researcher and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy in this
institution. Actually, she is scientific member of REQUIMTE/LAQV. Her
research areas are polymeric micelles, cyclodextrins and mucoadhesive polymers in
drug delivery. During her Ph.D. thesis she acquired experience in drug permeability,
cellular viability and cytotoxicity studies, mucoadhesive biomaterials, therapeutic
applications of cyclodextrins and computational studies in drug design. She also
developed research work during her PhD thesis in the Department of Pharmaceutical
Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) by coorientation
of Professor Juan Torres-Labandeira and in the Department of
Pharmaceutical Technology, Institute of Pharmacy and Chemistry, University of
Innsbruck, Austria by co-orientation of Professor Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch. Now, her
objective is to combine know-how development during her Ph.D thesis and new
strategies for successful drug delivery, especially in what concerns the use of block
copolymers and micellar systems. She has numerous scientific publications in
prestigious journals, several book chapters and various communications in international
conferences.

Research Interests

Polymeric micelles Cyclodextrins Micelleplexes Controlled release

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