Ana Grenha

Ana Grenha has received her PhD in Pharmacy-Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Santiago de Compostela – Spain in 2007. She is Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Algarve in Portugal since 2007, having received her Habilitation in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Lisbon in 2022. She is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR-UAlg) and an active collaborator of the iMed from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon, being the PI of the Drug Delivery Laboratory, which is dedicated to the design and development of particulate carriers for drug delivery, with a particular focus on inhalation. The research group is also keen on exploring the potential of natural materials, namely polysaccharides, fostering new applications that benefit from their intrinsic properties. In 2020 she received the Robalo Cordeiro Award from the Portuguese Society of Pneumology, attributed to a scientific project on pulmonary vaccination.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Marine Sciences since January 2018 and is part of DDL Committee since 2019.