Personale docente

Professional Profile

2011- Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Department of Food and Drugs, University of Parma, Italy.

2010- Founder and Director, since its foundation, of the Interdepartmental Centre for Innovation in Health Products, Biopharmanet-Tec, University of Parma, Italy.

2017- President of the Master course in “Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Strategies in Medicinal Products Development”, University of Parma.

2013- Founder of PumeStars srl an innovative start-up start-up company developing innovative medicines for inhalation.

2015- Faculty representative in the European University Consortium for Pharmaceutical Sciences (ULLA).

2016- Founder of M3datek srl a spin-off of the University of Parma devoted to the development and commercialization of 3D printed medicinal products and medical devices for local drug delivery and regenerative medicine.

Positions held

-2003-2017 President of the Master Course in “Pharmaceutical Technology and Regulatory Affairs”, University of Parma.

-2015-2016 Coordinator of the Doctorate course in “Biopharmaceutics-Pharmacokinetics”, University of Parma.

- 2012-2014 Director of the Italian inter-university Consortium Tefarco Innova;

- 2009-2011 Member of the Council of the University of Parma.

- 2008-2012 Deputy Director of the Italian inter-university Consortium Tefarco Innova;

-2007-2015 Member of the Committee for Training and Education (CTE) of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS).

- 2002- 2011 Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Parma, Italy.

- 1997- 2002 Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Parma, Italy.

- 1994-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacy University of Parma, Parma Italy.

- 1993-1994 invited Visiting Scholar, School of Chemical Engineering of the Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

- 1990 Visiting Student, Laboratoire de Pharmacie Galénique et Biopharmacie, University of Lille, France.

Education

1994          Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, University of Pavia, Italy

                  THESIS: Hydrophilic, swelling controlled drug delivery systems: relation between swelling rate and drug release kinetics.

1991          M.S. in Pharmacy (Hons.), University of Parma, Italy.

                  THESIS: Permeation of the piroxicam/beta-cyclodextrin inclusion compound through artificial membranes.

Scientific production

134 papers published on international peer reviewed journals;

20 patents (16 granted, 4 pending applications);

7 book chapters;

74 invited lectures;

more than 200 conference proceedings.

Research metrics

Scopus Author ID:  7101984571

Source Scopus

H Index: 33; Total citations: 3820.

Source Google Scholar

H Index 41; Total citations 5604.

Awards

- 1999 J. Heller Journal of Controlled Release outstanding paper Award, Controlled Release Society, USA;

- First Eurand Award 2000. The Prize for Outstanding Research in Emerging Fields of Oral Drug Delivery, Controlled Release Society, USA;

- 2014 Listed in “Who is Who in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry”, Akadémial Kiado, Hungary;

- 2016 AAPS Fellow, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, USA.

- 2019 AIMBE Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, USA.

Scholarships

- 1990 European Erasmus Scholarship;

-  1991 Research Scholarship, University of Parma;

- 1995 The Nagai Foundation Tokyo (Japan) Scholarship;

- 1997 First Italian School on Supercritical Fluids Scholarship.

Editorial Activities

Guest editor of the Special Issue of International Journal of Pharmaceutics 324 (2006).

Associated Editor

-Pharmaceutics

Member of the Editorial Board of:

- International Journal of Pharmaceutics;

- Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology;

- Drug Delivery and Translational Research;

- The Journal of Validation Technology (2010-2013).

Reviewer activities

Currently R. Bettini serves as reviewer on regular bases for:

• Pharmaceutical Research;
• AAPS Journal;
• AAPS PharmSciTech;
• Journal of Controlled Release;
• European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences;
• Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences;
• International Journal of Pharmaceutics;
• Biomaterials;
• AIChE Journal;
• Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery;
• Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry;
• Pharmaceutical Development and Technology;
• European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences;
• European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics;
• Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy;
• Journal of Supercritical Fluids;
• Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology;
• Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis;
• Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory;
• Journal of Microencapsulation.

Affiliations

•                American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS);

•                Association de Pharmacie Galénique Industrielle (APGI);

•                Controlled Release Society (CRS);

•                Italian Association of Thermal Analysis (AICAT);

•                Italian Chemical Society (Pharmaceutical Technology Division);

•                International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE).