Eride Quarta

Eride Quarta is Assistant Professor at Food and Drug Department of University of Parma. She got her industrial PhD in Drug Sciences, Biomolecules and Health Products in 2020 at University of Parma (IT) in collaboration with the SME PlumeStars who designs and develops orphan medicinal products.
During the PhD she worked at CUPIDO project European Union’s Horizon 2020 to develop inhalable biocompatible and biodegradable nanoparticles that can self-assemble and encapsulate an active biomolecule for cardiovascular disease exploiting lung-to-heart route.

Her research interests are solid dosage forms for controlled and site-specific drug delivery especially of biologics in nano and micro system for pulmonary, nasal and oral administration.

She has published more than 20 original papers, and she is the inventor of 2 patents. Eride Quarta won the EUFEPS Woman in Pharmaceutical Science Award 2021 and was awarded as Best Innovator of 2022 by the Italian Association of Women Inventors and Innovators for the WO patent “Powder composition based on microparticles embedding nanoparticles for the delivery of therapeutic/diagnostic compounds”.