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Prof. María Vallet-Regí, Madrid, Spain

Professor María Vallet-Regí is a Spanish chemist, scientist and Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She is recognized as a pioneer in the field of ceramic materials applied to medicine. She was the pioneer who suggested introducing drugs into the pores of mesoporous silica materials, which inspired thousands of publications worldwide involving mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug delivery. She is a Highly Cited Researcher 2018 (Clarivate Analytics). Her publications have been cited over 38.500 times and her h-index is 91. Prof. Vallet-Regí has been awarded many important International prizes. She has an ERC Advanced Grant entitled “Polyvalent mesoporous nanosystem for bone diseases. https://www.ucm.es/valletregigroup

Plenary lecture given at EUROMAT Stockholm: Bioceramics for health