OUR EXPERTISE. YOUR OUTCOMES

We develop innovative research, aimed to obtain bioactive products useful for human health.

Welcome to the Department of Pharmaceutical
and Pharmacological Sciences

Freedom and pure interest in research. The main reasons to work with us

Freedom and pure interest in research are the most important reasons for choosing our services.
We are a university department, and what moves us are research, teaching and the third mission, namely communication and technology transfer. There are no commercial interests in our activities other than those related to these three areas of activity.

Our History

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences was created in 2012 by the merger of the pre-existing Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacology and Anesthesiology, which had always been reference structures for drug research and teaching at the University of Padua.

The department of Pharmacology dates back to the 1930s.

Our People

Our staff includes about 60 researchers and professors, 40 technicians, and 100 young researchers-in-training, including students from 3 doctoral schools, postdoctoral fellows, and fellows.
More than 100 undergraduates are housed in the research laboratories for experimental thesis work.

Our Research Areas

The faculty members in our Department perform research in the areas of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacognosy, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Technology and Drug Delivery, Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Biology, Regenerative Medicine.

Our Labs

Our Department has about 50 research laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art furniture and instrumentation, 10 classrooms and 7 laboratories with modern equipment for frontal and practical teaching for more than 2,000 students.

Our Mission

Our mission is to develop innovative research aimed at obtaining bioactive products that are useful for human health, through the use of modern technologies and the combination of cultural, scientific and educational skills of our department.

Our Vision

Our vision is to create a department that becomes a centre of knowledge in pharmaceuticals and health and wellness products that is a benchmark for research and services in the manufacturing world.

Our Values

Free thinking and cultural independence are the most important of our values.
Applied to our research, they become a powerful source of inspiration for new discoveries and the achievement of important breakthroughs in the pharmaceutical and pharmacological sciences.
Defending them in study and teaching has become a hallmark that is also found in the motto of our University: Universa Universis Patavina Libertas.

Our collaborations

Our researchers

Valentina Gandin

Luigi Quintieri

Genny Orso

Stefano Comai

Morena Zusso

Lucia Trevisi

Barbara Spolaore

Maria Cecilia Giron

Mariangela Garofalo

Daniela Gabbia

Guglielmina Froldi

Lisa Dalla Via

Maria Teresa Conconi

Rocchina Colucci

Rocchina Colucci

Chiara Bolego

Stefano Salmaso

Nicola Realdon

Anna Piovan

Erica Franceschinis

Raffaella Filippini

Raffaella Filippini

Alice Sosic

Claudia Sissi

Veronica Salmaso

Patrizia Polverino de Laureto

Gianfranco Pasut

Stefano Moro

Giorgia Miolo

Andrea Mattarei

Francesca Mastrotto

Cristina Marzano

Antonella Grigoletto

Alessandro Dolmella

Rosa Di Liddo

Stefano Dall’Acqua

Girolamo Calò

Margherita Morpurgo

Sara De Martin

Laura Acquasaliente

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