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Euro Gastroenterology 2019 & Clinical Pharmacy 2019

Archives of General Internal Medicine | ISSN: 2591-7951 | Volume 3

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March 25-26, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY

International Conference on

CLINICAL PHARMACY & PHARMACY PRACTICE

World Congress on

Joint Event on

OF EXCELLENCE

IN INTERNATIONAL

MEETINGS

YEARS

ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS IN SKINWOUND HEALING AND TOPICAL DRUG

DELIVERY

Marilena Vlachou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

lthough electrospinning is not a contemporary technology, in the recent years it has attracted considerable

attention, due to the technique’s offering advantages making it ideal for applications in the medical and

pharmaceutical areas. In the past few decades, electrospinning techniques have advanced even more and the

use of materials, such as natural and synthetic polymers has allowed the generation of ultra-thin fibers with

various diameters and morphologies.

Electrospum nanofibers have a potential in many fields, including biomedical, such as regenerative medicine,

tissue, engineering and biosensing. They have exhibited a surprising performance for topical drug delivery due

to high surface area to volume ratio as well as high porosity and flexibility, and so fiber-based systems, like gels,

films, hydrogels and wound dressings, have been produced. The drug release from nanofibers can be adjusted

by controlling the nanofiber diameter, its mode of encapsulation or changing the morphology to core-shell

type. This research elaborates on the advancement of using nanofibers in topical drug delivery systems and skin

wound healing.

Marilena Vlachou, Arch Gen Intern Med 2019, Volume 3 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C1-023

Marilena Vlachou is an assistant professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUoA), Greece. Af-

ter obtaining her pharmacy degree from NKUoA, she conducted research related to novel pharmaceutical technology

techniques at the University of Rhode Island, USA, as a visiting research scientist. She then moved back to Greece to pur-

sue PhD studies on physical pharmacy/pharmaceutical technology. In her capacity as a member of staff of NKUoA, she

teaches two undergraduate courses and one postgraduate, all related to the field of pharmaceutical technology. She has

co-authored the textbook entitled “Pharmaceutical Technology I: Principles of Physical Pharmacy and Nanotechnology”,

2007, parisianou editions, Athens, Greece, (ISBN: 978-960-394-487-4), and has presented her research work in more than

fifty international and national scientific conferences and has published more than thirty five articles in peer-reviewed

journals. She is a member of the Greek Pharmaceutical Society, Greek Society of Pharmaceutical Technology and Greek

Society of Cosmetology.

BIOGRAPHY