Giovanna Rassu
Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, ItalyBiography:
Giovanna Rassu is Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy of the University of Sassari, where she performs her research and teaching activities in the drug delivery field. Her research activity is mainly focused on the development of micro- and nanoparticles for different routes of administration (nasal, oral, and cutaneous), mainly for nose-to-brain drug delivery; these studies are in collaborations with various national and international research groups. To date, she is (co)authored of 73 scientific publications (h-index 26) and more than 90 congress communications/proceedings. She reviews manuscripts submitted to different prestigious journals of the drug delivery categories; she is Associate Editor for Frontiers in Medical Technology – Nano-Based Drug Delivery and Editorial Board Member of Pharmaceutics. Moreover, she is Editor of “Mucosal and Nasal Delivery” and “Women in Medtech 2021” Research Topics in Frontiers in Medical Technology. She is also Special Issue Editor of Special Issue “Liposomes and Lipid Nanovesicular Carriers for Drug Delivery” and Mucoadhesive and Mucosal Drug Delivery Systems Volume II in Pharmaceutics.
She is inventor of Patent titled “Permeation Cells” (number: 102017000089514; European extension application (PCT / IB2018 / 055726)) suitable for the permeation studies of substances through membranes or tissues.