About

Rui Churro, PhD, is a Senior Scientist – Inhalation and Advanced Drug Delivery at Hovione and earned his PhD in the field of Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto (Portugal) in 2020 with a thesis dedicated to heterogeneous catalysis. In 2020, he joined Hovione as a Drug Product Development Scientist, having been enrolled in drug product and drug product intermediate process development from early stage until commercial scale. Since 2022, he has been leading process development projects and internal R&D projects within the respiratory field, focusing on spray drying, capsule filling and formulation strategies for the Inhalation and Advanced Drug Delivery group as a senior scientist.