Department: Farmacia Galénica y Tecnología Alimentaria

Faculty: Farmacia

Centre/Institute: Instituto Universitario de Farmacia Industrial

Universidad: Complutense University of Madrid

Area: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology

Research group: INNOFTAL Innovación, terapia y desarrollo farmacéutico en oftalmología

Email: vandres@ucm.es

Personal web: https://www.ucm.es/vanesa-andres-guerrero/

Doctor by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with the thesis Nuevas formas de vehiculización de agentes hipotensores para el tratamiento del glaucoma 2011. Supervised by Dr. Rocío Herrero Vanrell, Dr. Irene Teresa Molina Martínez.

Tenured Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Food Technology at UCM. My research field is ophthalmic drug delivery. I'm specialized in the design, development, characterization and evaluation of innovative ocular formulations based on biodegradable micro- and nanosystems, able to encapsulate and control the release of active substances in the eye (topical, periocular and intraocular administrations). I received my Ph.D. with European Mention in Pharmacy in 2011 at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain), with several studies related to the development of topical ophthalmic formulations for the treatment of ocular hypertension associated with glaucoma. These studies, directed by Prof. R. Herrero-Vanrell and Prof. I.T. Molina-Martínez, were performed in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, at the Faculty of Pharmacy of UCM. During that time, I obtained international research experience in a scientific stay as a pre-doctoral fellow in the Centre for Drug Research in Helsinki, Finland, directed by Prof. Arto Urtti. Thereafter, starting in 2011, I performed a postdoctoral research working for the PANOPTES project (Peptide-based Nanoparticles as Ocular Drug Delivery Vehicles) under the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Union. During 3 years (Nov. 2014 - Dec. 2017) I have been working at the Sanitary Research Institute of the San Carlos Clinical Hospital, as a Research Scientist of the Department of Ophthalmology, directed by Prof. J. García Feijóo.