Valquiria Bassani obtained her MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1981), and her PhD in Bases Physico Chimiques/Innovation Pharmaceutique at Université de Montpellier I, France (1990). She is working as a Full Professor at the Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). During 2009-2013, she was involved in the Network of Research (Nanobiotechnology - Nanophyto) sponsored by the Brazilian government CAPES/MEC. She has published 124 articles in scientific journals and has seven patents deposited in INPI/Brazil. Her research interests include phytopharmaceuticals, particularly from Achyrocline satureioides, Ilex paraguariensis, Glycine max, and Trifolium pratense and the complexation of bioactive molecules with cyclodextrin.