Fabiola Porta
University of Basel, Switzerland
Biography
Dr. Fabiola Porta has studied Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology in Milan at Universita’ degli studi, where she obtained her Master degree in Pharmacy in 2008. She then moved to the Leiden Institute of Chemistry where she graduated, in 2012, in chemistry with a special focus in nanoparticles synthesis and characterization. After the completion of her PhD she started to work as PostDoc in several institutions in Switzerland as: FHNW and University of Basel. Recently, she joined the group of Biopharmacy where she is developing-self assembled nanoparticles for cancer therapy. Dr. Porta expertise is in the design and development of nanovehicles for cancer therapy with aparticular focus on targeted nanocarriers for breast cancer therapy.