
School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, UK;
Dimitrios Lamprou is Full Professor (Chair) of Biofabrication and Advanced Manufacturing at Queen’s University Belfast, and a subject matter expert in emerging (bio)pharmaceutical technologies for drug delivery systems and medical implants. Dimitrios has been recognized as world leader in Printing with PubMed-based algorithms placed him in the top 0.047% of scholars in the world writing about Printing in the last 10 years. Dimitrios, is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed publications, has over 350 conference abstracts, has given over 140 Invited Talks in institutions and conferences across the world, and has secure Funding in excess of £2.5M. His research and academic leadership have been recognized in a range of awards, including the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Science Award and the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance Leaders Scheme Award. For more info, please check at www.emergingtechnologieslab.com.
On Wednesday, 8 February 2023, MDPI and the Journal Pharmaceutics organized the 2nd Webinar of the Pharmaceutics series, entitled “3D and 4D Printing in Pharmaceutics”. This online seminar was chaired by Prof. Dr. Dimitrios A. Lamprou, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and discussed state-of-the-art 3D & 4D printing for pharmaceutical applications, as well as some regulatory considerations.
The first speaker to kick off the webinar was Dr. Dolores R. Serrano, who gave a talk on 3D printing technologies for innovative medicines. Dr. Lucia Zema followed with her presentation on the introduction of the fourth dimension (4D printing) in the field. Finally, Dr. João F. Pinto addressed the use of FDM 3D printing for the manufacturing of individualized medicines. Speaker presentations were followed by a Q&A session moderated by the chair.
The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found below. To stay updated on the next Pharmaceutics webinars, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.
3D Printing of Pharmaceuticals and Drug Delivery Devices
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Dimitrios A. Lamprou
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019)