Founding Partner and Associate Director
More than 25 years experience in pharma and biotech industry. Before founding SITEC pharmabio, Piero held various R&D management positions at Esteve (Spain), SITEC Consulting (Italy), Bio-Ker (Italy), Critical Pharmaceuticals Ltd (UK), Serono (Italy – Switzerland), Vectopharma (Italy).
Pierandrea’s main experience is in pharmaceutical product development, of products based on delivery systems, innovative formulations, and conjugation technologies. His scientific interests focus in delivery technologies for small molecules and for biomolecules, in micro- and nanoparticles systems, and in imaging techniques evaluating drug product performance.
He holds a Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from University of Trieste, (Italy). He’s been a visiting scientist at University of Kentucky, (USA), an Attached Professor at University of Sao Paulo (Brasil), and University “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara (Italy). Currently he is a Faculty at ITS-Biotechnology (Italy).
Authored 23 publications, 45 abstracts; an inventor in 16 patents, and member of Scientific Editorial Boards of Drug Delivery and Translational Research, and of European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics.