Maria Antonietta Casadei is an associate professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technologies, University of Rome La Sapienza. She received a degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome in 1980. She completed an annual assignment for teaching chemistry at the Professional Institute Virginia Wolf of Rome from 1981 to 1982. She was a research fellow at CNR, Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Rome, from 1982 to1986. She was the winner of a CNR-NATO scholarship for a foreign country at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Southampton (G.B.) and the winner of the competition for the position of associate professor for the scientific disciplinary sector C08X, current CHIM / 09. She was a university researcher for a group of disciplines n.95 (Applied Pharmaceutical Chemistry) in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Rome, from 1988 to 1998. Her research interests include drug delivery and biopolymers.