Associate Professor Daniela Traini
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ARC Future Fellow
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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
PhD and Masters project opportunities
Novel inhalation formulation to improve quality of life of cystic fibrosis sufferers
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.