GUSTAVO PURAS OCHOA
- Knowledge area
- Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Department
- Farmacia y Ciencia de los Alimentos
- Centre
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Electronic mail
- gustavo.puras@ehu.eus
Gustavo Puras Ochoa
Perfil
Gustavo Puras Ochoa obtained his PhD degree from the Pharmacology Department in the University of the Basque Country (Spain, June, 2002). He worked for the Lloyds Pharmacy company in the United Kingdom of Great Britain as European Pharmacist until June 2005.
In September of 2005, Dr Puras was hired as a Researcher-Assistant member in the University of Texas-Brownsville (UTB, EEUU), under the supervision of Dr Luis V Colom. In this period of time he was a faculty member of the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (Matamors, México).
In September 2009, Dr Puras was hired as a researcher for the CIBER-BBN in the group directed by Dr José Luis Pedraz. Since March 2012, Dr Puras works as a faculty member in the Laboratory of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology of the University of the Basque Country. His research interest is focused on ocular pharmacology, nanotechnology and drug delivery-systems, especially on the design characterization and evaluation of non-viral vectors for gene delivery applications.