FORMER MEMBERS
Carla García Mazás
PhD
Carla.garcia@usc.es
Carla received her Master's degree (2015) in Pharmacy from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her master's project was focused on the development of ion-sensible hydrogels for the treatment of ocular cystinosis, a rare disease that causes blindness, under the supervision of Prof. Francisco Otero Espinar. After graduation she began the PhD in Pharmaceutical technology in the University of Santiago, under the supervision of Prof. Marcos García Fuentes, developing new nano-carriers for cancer treatment. She was awarded with a FPU fellowship, in the framework of the Spanish Ministry and recently she has been funding for an intership in the université Catholique de Louvain under the supervision of Veronique Preat.
Jose Manuel Ageitos
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
josemanuel.ageitos@usc.es
Dr. Jose Manuel Ageitos obtained his degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in 2002. He belonged to the first promotion of the Higher Degree in Biotechnology at the USC (2005). Later, in 2009, he obtained a Master in Biotechnological Engineering, and in 2011, he got the PhD in Biotechnology at the Faculty of Pharmacy. For 3 years he was member of the Numata Laboratory (RIKEN Biomass Engineering Program, Wako-shi, Japan). Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in Noemi Csaba laboratory. His field of research is based on enzymology, structural polymers, and peptides.
Maruthi Prasanna
PhD
amaruthiprasanna@usc.es
Maruthi hold 6+ years of research experience working with nanotechnology for the delivery of vaccines and therapeutic proteins. He is skilled in formulating micro/nano systems for drug delivery, human dendritic cell cultures, expression and purification of the protein. He have been working in the multidisciplinary field where being innovative, analytical thinking, rational design and problem-solving are daily approaches.
Paul Noel Lumapat
PhD Student
paul.lumapat@gmail.com
Since 2016,he has been an Erasmus Mundus NANOFAR scholar pursuing a PhD degree between the USC and the University of Liège in Belgium. After encountering it during his Masters thesis, he has been actively pursuing an interest in the field of biomaterials engineering and drug delivery. He is curently working on biomaterials with the capability of directing cancer stem cell migration. He obtained his Master degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 2016. He holds a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering.
Diego Pan Delgado
PhD Student
Diego.pan@rai.usc.es
Diego is a biologist, specialized in research, where he focused in development and in vitro/in vivo evaluation of new medicines, and pharmaceutical marketing. He has experience in the Group of Natural Polymers and Biomimetic and in the Diabesity Group of CIMUS, in the University of Santiago de Compostela where he became co-inventor of several patents on drug delivery technology. He had participated in the development and characterization of micro and nanostructure drug delivery systems, focusing mainly on their ability to treat mutations. He had experience in the fields of biomaterials, nanotechnology and in vitro/in vivo studies