Stefano Salmaso

stefano.salmaso@unipd.it

Telefono

0498271602

Luogo

Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco - DSF
VIA F. MARZOLO, 5 - PADOVA

Ricevimento

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Profilo

Since 2017 Stefano Salmaso is professor of Technology of delivery and controlled release of drugs at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences of the University of Padova.
He received his Ph.D. in “Pharmaceutical Sciences” in 2004 from the University of Padova. He completed his training in internationally awarded research groups at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Paris-Sud XI, at I.B.M.C Center of the University of Strasbourg, and at Centre for Innovative Biotechnologies of the University of Padova.
He held positions as assistant professor of Pharmaceutical Technology (CHIM/09) at the University of Padova (2004-2014) and as associate scientist at Northeastern University (Boston-USA, 2005 and 2008) where he developed "smart" nanocarriers for drug delivery to the tumor and the brain and innovative immunoliposomes for selective activation of immune system.
In 2016-2019 he was member of the international team of the ITN Marie Curie project "OCUTHER" supported by the EU; the project was aimed at developing novel treatments for ocular deseases. In 2009 he was recipient of a three-years grant from the European Commission in the framework of the FP VII (NanoSCI ERAnet) for the development of responsive polymersomes for the delivery of siRNA to silence key proteins in the progression of cancer in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and Principe Felipe Research Center in Valencia.
Since 2023 he is President of the Controlled Release Society Italy Chapter.