The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the City of Poznań invite you to an open lecture given by Professor Eliana Maria Barbosa Souto. Lecture: Safety aspects of lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery and targeting will be held on 10 April 2017 (Monday) at 2:00 p.m. in room 2.57 (level 0) in the building of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Adam Mickiewicz University, ul Umultowska 89b.
Eliana Maria Barbosa Souto is a professor at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Professor Souto's research focuses on nanomaterials, in respect of which there are particularly high expectations in nanomedicine. The scientific interests of Professor Souto's group include controlled drug delivery using lipid structures to a variety of biological barriers, such as skin, the digestive tract, and the blood-brain barrier.
Professor Souto's scientific achievements resulted in an invitation to wire a chapter entitled: "Advances in nanobiomaterials for oncology nanomedicine" in Nanobiomaterials in Cancer Therapy: Applications of Nanobiomaterials. She is often invited to deliver lectures at international conferences. Professor Souto authored more than 140 publications in prestigious journals on nanomaterials, pharmaceutical chemistry, medicine, etc.; she is the co-editor of two books, 32 chapters in books and special issues of magazines.
Nanomaterials are the latest group of materials, which owe their specific properties to the size of particles in the nano-scale. Currently they are used increasingly often in engineering, medicine, and everyday live. There are particularly high expectations in nanomedicine. Among the most spectacular applications of nanomaterials, one could mention nanocapsules with medicine "trapped" in them, delivered to patients according to need, e.g. in the case of diabetes in the form of inhaled insulin, nanocapsules with vitamines or other agents used in cosmetics, or medicine applied to the inner surface of contact lenses, releasing as necessary, without the need to use drops or ointments. The subject of Professor Eliana Souto's research is particularly focused on the latter issues due to their importance for human health. Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) and nanostructured lipid carriers (SLC) are relatively new carries of active substances, which are increasingly often used in medicine. SLN are spherical particles with a size of 40-1000 nm, composed of solid lipids and dispersed in aqueous phase which contains emulsifiers. In turn, NLC are the next generation of nanoparticles with a solid matrix.
The scientific interests of Professor Souto's group include controlled drug delivery using lipid structures to a variety of biological barriers, such as skin, the digestive tract, and the blood-brain barrier.It is worth noting that Professor Souto's scientific achievements resulted in an invitation to wire a chapter entitled: "Advances in nanobiomaterials for oncology nanomedicine" in Nanobiomaterials in Cancer Therapy: Applications of Nanobiomaterials (11-volume Encyclopedia published by Elsevier Science). She is often invited to deliver lectures at international conferences. Professor Souto authored more than 140 publications in prestigious journals on nanomaterials, pharmaceutical chemistry, medicine, etc.; she is the co-editor of two books, 32 chapters in books and special issues of magazines, as well as a member of scientific committees - Editorial Boards - of many journals (e.g. Acta Biomaterialia, AAPS Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & Formulation, Current Nanoscience, International Journal of Nanomedicine, Die Pharmazie). The total number of citations of her scientific work is close to 3000, while her impact factor amounts to 36 (H = 36).