The seminar was entitled "Bioinspired Drug Delivery Systems".

Prof Alvarez-Lorenzo is Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and Director of the USC Materials Institute (iMATUS). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) (1998-2001) and a "Ramón y Cajal" researcher at USC (2001-2006).

Her work sits at the interface between pharmaceutical technology, biology, materials science, and medicine. In particular, her research focusses on drug and gene nanocarriers, stimulus-sensitive hydrogels with molecular recognition capabilities, bioinspired drug delivery systems, scaffolds for regenerative medicine, and drug-medical device combination products.

She has been the PI of numerous regional, national and international projects. She is co-author of more than 380 articles, 40 book chapters, 20 patents, and more than 460 conference contributions and invited lectures, and co-editor of two books.