**Meet the editor**

Rosario Pignatello is a Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Legislation at the Department of Drug Sciences, University of Catania (Italy). He assists, as an Independent Expert, the European Commission for the evaluation of grant proposals within the REA programmes. He co-authored about 120 peer-reviewed papers published in international journals and has re-

cently performed many editorial activities in the field of biomaterials and pharmaceutical technology. Prof. Pignatello's main research interests are focused on the production of colloidal carriers (micro- and nanoparticles, liposomes, micelles, lipid nanocarriers) for ophthalmic drug delivery and brain targeting, synthesis and characterization of amphiphilic prodrugs and conjugates, polymer engineering for drug delivery, and the application of calorimetric techniques to study drug–biomembrane models interactions.
