Rosa María Hernandez obtained her PhD in Pharmacy at the Univesity of Salamanca in 1992. In 1993, Dr. Hernandez moved to University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) . Professor since 2009. She is Principal Investigator in several research projects and has supervised 20 PhD thesis works and co-authored more than 200 scientific articles and 10 patents. h-index: 43 Scopus, 52 Google Scholar). Her research fields focus on severa areas of drug delivery including micro- and nanoencapsulation of peptides and proteins as vaccine delivery systems, encapsulation of growth factors as an alternative therapy for Parkinson or Alzheimer’s diseases and cell based therapies for regenerative medicine.