The commission of the International Association of Pharmaceutical Technology has chosen the PhD thesis of Dr Flavia Fontana as the best thesis 2018/2019.

The awarded thesis, Biohybrid Cloaked Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy, was presented in the Faculty of Pharmacy on 14 June 2019. The thesis aimed at developing a biohybrid multistage nanovaccine formulation and to evaluate its anticancer efficacy in murine tumor models.

This is the third time a member of Professor Hélder Santos’ group Nanomedicines and Biomedical Engineering receives this award.