Prof. Margherita Morpurgo

Margherita Morpurgo is an associate professor of pharmaceutical technology and drug delivery at the Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences Department of the University of Padua. Her interests are in advanced drug delivery systems using bioderived components, focusing on micro- and nanoassemblies and environment-sensitive nanomaterials. Her main expertise is in avidin–biotin technology and silica sol–gel chemistry applied to targeted drug delivery and diagnostics. She obtained a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Padova, and is a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She has contributed to more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 10 international patent/patent applications. She also serves as a reviewer for major international journals in the field of advanced materials and nanomedicine, and is a winner of the G. Salvatore award in 1999, the Italian Innovation Challenge in 2007, the Nanochallenge award in 2008, and the Z-cube Accelerator program in 2017.