Brunella Grassiri is a final year PhD candidate specializing in pharmaceutical and bioactive substances. Her research focuses on the development of drug delivery systems for ocular, pulmonary, and dermal applications bringing together aspects of synthetic chemistry, nanocarriers and biomaterials for biopharmaceutical purposes. She graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, with an experimental thesis carried out as an undergraduate visiting student at Pharmaceutical Technology Institute of the University of Innsbruck. She started a PhD in science of drug and bioactive substances at the University of Pisa and furthered her research during a visiting PhD stint at Trinity College Dublin. Her work delved into pulmonary drug delivery systems assessment and focused on lung administration of Off-label drugs and new antimicrobial therapies. Her research involved collaborations with other institutions such as the University of Maynooth and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, and clinical centres such as the Hospital of Livorno and of Pisa.
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