MARIANA
LANDIN PEREZ

In 1986, I obtain my Degree in Pharmacy at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain, and held my doctorate at the same University in 1991. After a three year postdoctoral stage (UK), I rejoined the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology (USC), becoming associated professor in 1998. I have been recognized as a Specialist in Industrial Pharmacy by the Spanish Government in 2005. Since 1998, I am a member of the I+D Farma team at the USC (https://www.idfarmausc.es/en); a competitive research group due to its intense research activity, recognized as “excellent” by the Galician Government. The group has wide-ranging facilities and funding from international and national public agencies and private pharmaceutical industries for consulting, provision of services, and development of generic medicines. In this context, I have participated as a researcher in several basic and applied research projects, both national and international. Since 2007, my leadership skills have been reflected in my position as the main researcher of a number of research grants of regional, national and European projects. I have broad experience in research, in the areas of pharmaceutical material science and processing: raw materials characterization and variability, scale-up of pharmaceutical processes, strategies for the formulation of drugs with poor solubility/permeability through the formulation of supramolecular systems based on cyclodextrins, development of solid dispersions by hot-melt extrusion technique or dosage forms of immediate and controlled release. Moreover, I count with many years of experience in the design and evaluation of biomaterials as scaffolds for tissue engineering. Over recent years, my research interest has been focused on the application of artificial intelligence tools (Artificial Neural Networks, Neurofuzzylogic, genetic algorithms, Gene Expression Programming) for modeling biological and technological processes in order to their better understanding or to a rational design of new and/or optimized dosage forms. This research area has already led to an important number of Q1 publications and has caught the attention of Pharmaceutical companies as Innocore Pharmaceuticals (The Netherlands) or Bayer (España) to collaborate in modeling microparticles and culture media respectively. These works are worldwide pioneers in their field and already highly cited, so they will undoubtedly constitute in the coming years a reference for pharmaceutical formulators and biotechnologists. The results of my research have been presented in an important number of national and international conferences. I am the author of more than 100 international JCR indexed papers; some of them included as main references in the “Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients”. Regarding my tutoring skills, I have supervised more than ten master and PhD students. All PhDs that I have supervised have obtained the highest grade "Cum Laude" and “International Mention”. Currently, I am the coordinator of the Drug Research and Development Master (USC), research-oriented.