Giuseppe Cirillo PhD

Giuseppe Cirillo works in the fields of Materials Science, Pharmaceutical Technology, and Macromolecular Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria (Italy).

He received the Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology cum laude in 2005 and the Ph.D. Degree in Methodologies for the Development of Molecules of Pharmaceutical Interest in 2008 at the University of Calabria. The research interests involved the development of polymeric carriers for controlled/sustained drug delivery based on Molecularly Imprinted Polymers and Hydrogel from Natural Origin. His interest in nanomedicine, and in the application of carbon nanomaterials, started in 2008 during his visiting Ph.D. position at when Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden (Germany) in the Marie Curie Research Training Network CARBIO. The research activities in biomedicine were implemented during the post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Calabria from 2009 to 2016 in cooperation with IFW Dresden where he was visiting researcher. During this period, further cooperation was established with the Children’s Cancer Institute (CCIA) and the Centre for NanoMedicine, University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia; the University Hospital Dresden, and the National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology Dresden, the Department of Biology, University of Pisa, the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza. In this context, polymer therapeutics and multi-functional hybrid materials for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications were designed, synthesized, and characterized in a multi-disciplinary context.