Department: Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology

Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy

Institute: Institute of Materials

Strategic R&D&I cluster: Strategic Grouping of Materials (AEMAT)

Area: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology

Research group: R&D in drug dosage forms and drug delivery systems

Email: carmen.alvarez.lorenzo@usc.es

Personal web: https://www.idfarmausc.es/

Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis Hidroxipropilcelulosas (L-HPCs y HPCs) como excipientes base en liberación controlada. Importancia de sus propiedades estructurales y reologicas. 1998. Supervised by Dr. Ángel Concheiro Nine.

Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo (Degree and PhD in Pharmacy, with Extraordinary Awards) is Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) (1998-2001) and a "Ramón y Cajal" researcher at USC (2001-2006). Her work sits at the interface between pharmaceutical technology, biology, materials science, and medicine. In particular, her research focusses on drug and gene nanocarriers, stimulus-sensitive hydrogels with molecular recognition capabilities, bioinspired drug delivery systems, scaffolds for regenerative medicine, and drug-medical device combination products. She has been the PI of numerous regional, national and international projects. She is co-author of more than 360 articles, 30 book chapters, 20 patents, and more than 400 conference contributions and invited lectures, and co-editor of two books. h-index: 80 (Google Scholar; May 2023). She is ranked 7th in the h-index in Pharmacology and Pharmacy in Spain (https://grupodih.info/salud.html), and among the 100 Best Resident Scientists in Spain. She has been president of the Drafting Committee and Coordinator of the Interuniversity Master (USC-UVigo) in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2018-2022). Supervisor of 27 Doctoral Theses and another 10 in progress. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Controlled Release and Carbohydrate Polymers, and an Editor of the International Journal of Pharmaceutics. She is a Numerary Academician of the Royal Galician Academy of Pharmacy and of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Angeles Alvariño Medal 2021. She is currently Coordinator of the Competitive Reference Group I + DFarma (Xunta de Galicia) (http://idfarmausc.es/) and Director of the USC Materials Institute (iMATUS).