Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Qualifications

• MSc, PhD, MRPharmS, FRSC, FHEA

Internal memberships/posts

• Departmental Erasmus coordinator, Teaching and Learning coordinator, induction tutor

External memberships

• Funding member, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
• Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy

Key teaching responsibilities

• Pharmaceutical formulation and compounding, controlled and targeted drug delivery systems

Key research interests

• Biomedical applications of carbon nanotube
• Development of composite bioceramics
• Development of peptides drug delivery systems

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2006

• Roldo M, Hornof M, Caliceti P & Bernkop-Schnürch A, Mucoadhesive thiolated chitosans as platforms for oral controlled drug delivery: synthesis and in vitro evaluation, Eur. J. Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 57, 115-21, 2004.
• Caliceti P, Chinol M, Roldo M, Veronese F, Semenzato A, Salmaso S & Paganelli G, Poly(ethylene glycol)-avidin bioconjugates: suitable candidates for  tumour pretargeting, J. Controlled Release, 83, 97-108, 2002.

Book contributions

• Fatouros DG, Calabrese G, Barbu E, Roldo M, Fatourou AG, Tsibouklis J. Boron neutron capture therapy: active agents and lipid carriers. In: Vizirianakis IS, editor. Handbook of Personalized Medicine Advances in Nanotechnology, Drug Delivery and Therapy: Pan Standford Publishing; 2013.
• Roldo M, Fatouros DG. Chitosan-Derivative Based Hydrogels: Applications in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering. In: Zilberman M, editor. Active Implants and Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; 2011. p. 351-76.
• Fatouros D, Roldo M, Van der Merwe M. Stabilisation of carbon nanotube suspensions. In: Pastorin G, editor. Carbon Nanotubes: from bench chemistry to promising biomedical applications: Pan Stanford Publishing; 2011. p. 1-22.