BIO
María José Alonso is Professor of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and a Group Leader at the Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases (CiMUS). Her lab has pioneered numerous discoveries in nanopharmaceutical technology and nanomedicine, and she has coordinated research consortia financed by the WHO, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the European Commission. Listed as the inventor of 22 patent families, she has also participated in the creation and development of three startups. Prof. Alonso serves on the editorial boards of 12 scientific journals, and is Editor-in-Chief of Drug Delivery and Translational Research, a publication of the Controlled Release Society, of which she is a past president as well as the current head of its Women in Science group. Among her various distinctions she belongs to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and holds the Rei Jaume I Prize in New Technologies.
