Donatella Paolino, received the degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from the University of Catania (Italy) in 1999. In 2003 shereceived the Ph.D. degree in “Pharmaceutical Technology of Bioactive Substances” from the University of Palermo (Italy). She received the Pharm.D. degree in Hospital Pharmacy from the University of Catania (Italy). She got the position of research fellow at the University of Catanzaro on 2005 and then she joined the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Catanzaro as aggregate professor from 2007 to 2015, from 2015 sheis associate professor at the Department of Experimental and Clinic Medicine. Sheserves as a peer reviewer of a number of prestigious International journals (International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Nanomedicine, Journal of Controlled Release, Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, etc.). Sheismember of the editorial board of “The Scientific World Journal”. The teaching staff of Donatella Paolino are: Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemistry of Cosmetic Products, Chemical Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, and she is also in the advisory board of the Doctorate Course of Pharmaceutical Sciences - University of Catanzaro.
The current research interests of Donatella Paolino are the followings: innovative colloidal drug delivery systems for the selective delivery of drugs; colloidal carriers for topical drug administration; self-assembling supramolecular drug delivery systems. Sheis co-author of 120 full paper and more than 200 abstracts in International conferences/congresses. Sheis a member of various national and International scientific societies.