Associate Professor Daniela Traini

ARC Future Fellow
Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences
Woolcock Institute of Medical Research

A15
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Research interests

General interests are into all areas of pharmaceutical technology and surface material science including: investigation into surface energy and particle interactions; characterisation and optimisation of pharmaceutical materials used in dry powder and pressurised metered dose inhalers; evaluation of controlled release formulations for both inhalation and other biological applications.

Current national competitive grants*

2012

Treating tuberculosis: targeted delivery of multidrug nano-suspensions
Traini D, Young P
ARC Discovery Projects ($325,000 over 3 years)

Multi-drug dry powder inhalation systems for the effective treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Young P, Traini D, Stewart P, Honnery D
ARC Discovery Projects ($355,000 over 3 years)

2010

The effect of electrostatic charge on the plume of pressurised metered dose inhalers
Traini D, Young P, Chan K
ARC Linkage Project ($290,000 over 4 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

International links

Italy. (The University of Ferrara-Prof Santo Scalia) Honors and PhD exchange and Cotutelle Agrement.
Italy. (The University of Parma-Prof Paolo Colombo) Honors and Phd exchange- Faculty of Pharmacy.
United Kingdom. (University College London-School of Pharmacy) Collaboration with Prof Simon Gaisford for PhD exchange.