GIOVANNI FALCONE | Curriculum

2019
Graduated cum laude in Pharmacy, discussing a thesis titled: “Printlets, personalized formulations for oral administration produced via Fused Deposition Modeling (3D Printing): development and technological characterization”, at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno.

01/2022 - 06/2022
Training and research at foreign institutes: "Biomaterial Institute of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)", under the supervision of prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Conducted physicochemical characterization of natural polymeric materials using innovative analytical techniques with applications in the pharmaceutical field (oral dosage forms production) and biomedical field (cellular scaffolds for tissue engineering).

10/2019 - 11/2022
Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Discovery and Development), scientific disciplinary sector CHIM-08/A (Pharmaceutical Technology and Applied Chemistry), with a thesis titled: “Alginate hydrogels in drug delivery: from physico-chemical to technological studies of a promising polysaccharide for 3D printing application”, at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno.

03/2023 - Present
University researcher (RTD-A, art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10).
Design and development of polysaccharide-based nanosystems for siRNA delivery in oral/locoregional treatment of colon cancer (PNRR National Research Center Project on Gene Therapy and RNA-based Drug Technologies), at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno.