About Associate Professor Daniela Traini
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
Dr Traini is an Early Career Researcher, having completed her PhD in June 2005 under the primary supervision of Dr. Robert Price, at the University of Bath, UK. She has extensive experience in both academic and industrial pharmaceutics, and still retains strong link with the pharmaceutical industry. As an industrial senior scientist, she directed a team, developing inhalation based drug systems. She has established research collaborations with the University of Parma and the University of Milan, Italy
My current tenure is as lecturer at the University of Sydney in the Faculty of Pharmacy. Working mainly within the Advance Drug Delivery Group, together with Prof Hak-Kim Chan and Dr Paul Young, my focus is primarily on inhalation drug formulation, delivery and technology and physical pharmaceutics. During the past two years I have worked consistently to secure both competitive (ARC-Linkage, ARC-LIEF. USYD R&D) and non-competitive funding, to support my research activities and have attracted a total of $900,000 in funding. My success in this area has come as a result of a sustained effort in applying for grants, strategic collaborations, building a strong track record and designing innovative research projects that are outcomes focused. I am a reviewer for one of the major international journal: Pharmaceutical Research (IF: 2.752).
Selected publications
- Young, P.M., Sung, A., Traini, D., Kwok, P., Chiou, H., Chan, H-K. (2007) Influence of humidity on the electrostatic charge and aerosol performance of dry powder carrier systems performance. Pharmaceutical Research, Vol 24, No 5, 963-970.
- Young, P.M., Tee, T., Chiou, H., Chan, H-K., Traini, D. (2007) The influence of mechanical processing dry powder inhaler carriers on drug aerosolisation performance. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol 96, No 5, 1331-1341.
- Traini, D., Young, P.M., Rogueda, P., Price, R. (2007) In vitro investigation of drug particulate interactions and aerosol performance of pressurised metered dose inhalers. Pharmaceutical Research, Vol 24, 125-135.
- Adi, H., Larson, I., Chiou, H., Young, P.M., Traini, D., Stewart, P. (2006) Dispersion of salmeterol xinofoate from powder mixtures for inhalation – the influence of fine lactose size on the mechanism of dispersion. Pharmaceutical Research, Vol 23, 2556-2565.
- Traini, D., Price, R., Young, P.M., Rogueda, P. (2006) A novel apparatus for the determination of solubility in pressurised metered dose inhalers. Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, Vol 32, 1159-1163.
- Traini, D., Young, P.M., Jones, M., Price, R., Edge, S. (2006) Comparative study of erythritol and lactose monohydrate as carriers for inhalation: atomic force microscopy and in vitro correlation. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol 27, 243-251.
- Traini, D., Young, P.M., Rogueda, P., Price, R. (2006) The use of AFM and surface energy measurements to investigate drug-canister material interactions in pressurised metered dose inhalers. Aerosol Science & Technology, Vol 40, 1-10.
- Traini, D., Price, R., Young, P.M., Rogueda, P. (2006) Investigation into the influence of polymeric stabilising excipients on the performance of pressurised metered dose inhalers. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Vol 320, 58-63.
- Traini, D., Rogueda, P., Young, P.M., Price, R. (2005) Surface energy and interparticle force correlation in model pMDI formulations. Pharmaceutical Research Vol 22, 816-825.
- Young, P.M., Price, R., Lewis, D., Edge, S., Traini, D. (2003) Under pressure: Predicting pressurised metered dose inhaler interactions using the atomic force microscope. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Vol 262, 298-302.