Meet the global CRS Newsletter Team who work to bring you each issue of the Newsletter
Sara Cordeiro, Editor in Chief
Organization: University of Strathclyde
Position: Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Sara Cordeiro is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the School of Pharmacy at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK). Following a PharmD from the University of Porto (Portugal) and a PhD in Drug Research and Development from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast (Belfast, UK). Throughout these years, Sara has developed a background in pharmaceutical formulation, drug delivery, nanomedicine, vaccine delivery and microneedles for transdermal drug delivery and diagnostics. Currently, she is establishing her independent research group with a focus on improving and facilitating patients' lives through the development of drug and vaccine delivery systems that are easy to manufacture and scale-up, highly efficient and administered through non-invasive routes. Within CRS, Sara has been actively involved with the Young Scientist Committee, currently serving as its Immediate Past Chair, and acting as the Director of Assessment of the 2021 Annual Meeting Programme Committee
Andrea Joseph
Organization: University of Washington, USA
Position: PhD candidate
Email: ajoseph1@uw.edu
Area of research interest: Polymeric nanoparticles, central nervous system delivery
Favourite animal: Octopus
Beach or mountains? Beach
Polymers or lipids? Polymers!
Ken Carson
Organization: Southwest Research Institute
Position: Lead Scientist, Microencapsulation Group, Pharmaceuticals and Bioengineering Department
Email: kenneth.carson@swri.org
Area of Research Interest: Formulation for controlled release of actives. I am especially interested in biological actives (my background is in molecular biology)
Favourite Animal: Dogs for pets, but hey, I'm flexible...
Beach or mountains? Mountains Definitely
Polymers or lipids? Tough question. I work with both on occasion. I can’t decide between one or the other, so…BOTH.
Ana Melero Zaera
Organization: University of Valencia
Position: Associate Professor
Email: ana.melero@uv.es
Area of Research Interest: Transdermal and topical delivery
Favourite Animal: Wombat
Beach or mountains? Beach
Polymers or lipids? Lipids
