MEEX Speaker
BOSQUILLON Cynthia, PhD
Lecturer in Drug Delivery School of Pharmacy University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom
Biography
Dr.Cynthia Bosquillon is Lecturer in Drug Delivery at the University of Nottingham, School of Pharmacy, UK. She obtained her Master of Pharmacy and PhD from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Following her PhD, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at King’s College London on a project directed by Prof.Ben Forbes before being awarded a 2 year fellowship that she undertook at the same institution and finally, being appointed to a lectureship at Nottingham. Her research has essentially focussed on drug inhalation, of which she has explored different aspects, from the formulation and characterisation of dry powders to the development of in vitro and ex vivo models of the lungs as tools to predict pulmonary drug absorption in vivo. She has published two book chapters and more than 20 papers in the field, including the first review on drug transporters in the lungs. She has collaborated with the pharmaceutical industry on various lung projects and has been invited to talk at several national and international meetings.
