Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Dr. Adalberto Pessoa Jr., Full professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of São Paulo and Visiting Senior Professor at King's College London. He has experience in enzyme and fermentation technology and in the purification processes of biotechnological products, such as liquid-liquid extraction, cross-flow filtration and chromatography of interest to the pharmaceutical and food industries.Dr. Michele Vitolo, Full professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of São Paulo. He has experience in enzyme technology, in immobilization techniques (aiming the reuse of the biocatalyst), and in the operation of membrane reactors for obtaining biotechnological products of interest to the pharmaceutical, Chemical, and food industries. michenzi@usp.brDr. Paul Long is Professor of Biotechnology at King's College London and Visiting International Research Professor at the University of São Paulo. Prof Long is a microbiologist by training and his research uses a combination of bioinformatics, laboratory and field studies to discover new medicines from nature, particularly from the marine environment.