Personal Details

Born Fuentes Andalucía. Seville (Spain) in 1967. Work address: Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology. Faculty of Pharmacy. University of Seville. Spain. e-mail: carabalo@fafar.us.es

Education

Degree in Pharmacy (Industrial) from the University of Seville 1990. Degree’s Extraordinary Prize Ph.D. in Pharmacy: Percolation Theory: application to the design and characterisation of Controlled Release Systems. University of Seville 1994. Ph.D.’s Extraordinary Prize of the University of Seville

Employment

Associated Professor, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology. University of Seville, October 1994 to January 2001. Titular Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics. University of Seville. February 2001 to present. Invited Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology. University of Basle (Switzerland). June to September 1995 and May to August 1999.

Awards

Degree’s Extraordinary Prize of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Seville 1991 (best degree of the Faculty of Pharmacy). Mesa Portillo Memorial Graduate Prize. 1991. Ph.D.’s Extraordinary Prize of the University of Seville. 1994 (best Ph.D. on Pharmacy of the University of Seville). Eurand Award 2001 “for Outstanding Novel Research in Oral Drug Delivery” organized by the Controlled Release Society and Eurand. 28th Symposium of the Controlled Release Society, San Diego, California, 26th June 2001. Prize for Teaching Excellence of the University of Seville, 16th October 2001.

Publications

Main research fields:

-Application of Percolation theory to the design of Controlled Release Systems. Interesting findings in this field were the influence of the relative particle size on the percolation threshold as well as the influence of the compaction method. -Preformulation studies (including stability studies). Development of Chromatographic and Conductometric analytical methods. Study of degradation mechanisms. The most important results have been published in 54 research papers in different scientific journals including those having a higher impact in the area of pharmaceutics: Pharmaceutical Research, Journal of Controlled Release, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, etc. Other results have been published in more than fifty Proceedings or Communications to Congresses.

Reviewer

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences