R&D Director
Hovione FarmaCiencia SA, Portugal
Eunice Costa joined Hovione in 2011 and currently leads the Research & Development activities in the fields of Inhalation & Advanced Drug Delivery at Hovione. As Director, she is accountable for formulation and manufacturing process development as well as medical device design for respiratory & advanced drug delivery modalities, supporting Pharma partners pushing forward innovative and generic medicines. Since joining Hovione, Eunice has been actively researching the impact of particle engineering, particularly spray drying, formulation composition and processing on performance, stabilization and disposition of medicines, particularly biologics, supervising multiple PhD and MSc thesis. Prior to that she has held positions as junior researcher in organizations such as Genentech, TNO and academia. Eunice is a PhD in Bioengineering Systems from the MIT-Portugal program, during which she has investigated polymer synthesis and processing for biological applications.