Marlene Lucio
Marlene Lúcio obtained her PharmD (1999) and PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry (2006) from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Porto, Portugal. In 2008, she received the European Young Chemist Award for her outstanding contribution to research in life sciences . Since then, she has been developing lipid-based nanosystems as membrane models to study the interactions between drugs and biointerfaces and as nanocarriers of bioactive compounds for several therapeutic applications. She is a researcher and invited professor at the University of Minho, Portugal.