Sergio Simoes has a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, a Master degree in Engineering Sciences and a PhD in Pharmaceutics. He holds a position as assistant professor at Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal. Sergio Simoes is Member of the Board and Vice-president for business and product development of Bluepharma, and a research member at the Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology (at UC). His research activity has been focused on the development of targeted nanocarriers for drug and nucleic acid delivery aiming at their application for gene therapy. He has published more than 70 SCI journal papers, 7 book chapters, 5 patents (1 granted, 4 pending) and he is the author/co-author of 235 presentations in international conferences and workshops. Over the last years, Sergio Simoes has conducted several research projects in the field of Biotechnology and gained significant expertise on the development, industrial transfer and manufacturing of pharmaceutical dosage forms for the European and US market.  

 Pharmaceutical Science, Nucleic acids, Gene therapy