Catarina Rosado has received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology at Cardiff University, UK.
She is currently Associate Professor at ECTS of Universidade Lusófona. She has established her research at CBIOS, leading the Formulation Strategies and Nanosolutions laboratory, but has collaborations with other Portuguese and foreign universities.
Her research is focused on the study of the impact of formulations on transdermal penetration and also in the development of non-invasive in vivo strategies to assess efficacy and safety of innovative ingredients for topical drugs and cosmetics. Catarina is also interested in the application of lipidic biomaterials as innovative excipients of topical and transdermal formulations, and in the impact of nutrition on human skin, namely on barrier function, skin pathologies and ageing.
Catarina Rosado has been involved in the supervision of several MSc and PhD students, and has hosted in her research lab postgraduate students from varied countries.
