Associate Professor SSD ING-IND 25 (DIFARMA)
Academic Curriculum
Dr. Anna Angela Barba got her Laurea in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, in May 1997, then she gained the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 2002. Starting from 1999 she had a CNR fellowship (one year), a post-doctoral grant (2002-2004) and worked at some research projects as external consultant at the Department of Chemical and Food Engineering, faculty of Engineering, University of Salerno.
In February 2005 she obtained a position as assistant professor in Chemical Plants at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, which she joined in October 2005.
She had, since a.y. 2005/2006, the cathedra of Pharmaceutical Industrial Plants. She also had and has didactic activity in post-degree corse. She is a member of the faculty board of the doctorate of research in Chemical Engineering.
The research activities of dr. Barba, developed mainly at the University of Salerno, are developed in the field of power applications of electromagnetic field to the development of innovative methodologies and equipments for microwave assisted heating. From October 2002 to March 2003 she worked as post-doc research fellow at the Technical University of Eindhoven, TUE (NL) – Department of Electrical Engineering / Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry – where was involved in research activities on pulsed plasma.
Recently, dr. Barba addressed her research activities to the transfer of Chemical Engineering processes and methods to pharmaceutical productions. Her activities, developed in different scientific collaborations and characterized by experimental and modeling actions, are based on the use of electromagnetic energy (microwaves region) in heating intensified processes (cooking, drying, blanching, curing) of vegetal matrices and pharmaceutical ingredients. Non-conventional analytic procedures are also developed to study the dielectric behavior of materials (nanometallic powders, composite, biopolymeric hydrogels).
Dr. Anna Angela Barba was scientific responsible of research projects funded bybudget Ateneo and she was involved and is currently involved in different financed projects.She is co-authors of many publications: papers on international and national journals, communications to international and national conferences, chapters in books/monographs.
Publications
2023
Impact of drug release in USP II and in-vitro stomach on pharmacokinetic: The case study of immediate-release carbamazepine tablets Journal Article
In: Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 267, 2023.
2016
Gastrointestinal behavior and ADME phenomena: I. In vitro simulation Journal Article
In: Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, vol. 35, pp. 272-283, 2016, ISSN: 1773-2247.
Gastrointestinal behavior and ADME phenomena: II. in silico simulation Journal Article
In: Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, vol. 35, pp. 165-171, 2016, ISSN: 1773-2247.
2015
PHARMACOKINETICS OF REMIFENTANIL: METABOLISM AND MODELING Proceedings Article
In: 1st International Congress of Controlled Release Society - Greek Local Chapter, 2015.
Bioaccessibility of active principles: an in-vitro reproduction of human physiology Proceedings Article
In: Proccedings of 4th International Conference on Food Digestion, pp. 1–1, 4th International Conference on Food Digestion, Naples, Italy, 2015.
A PSE approach to patient-individualized physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling Journal Article
In: 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, vol. 37, pp. 77–84, 2015, ISSN: 15707946.
2014
In-vitro models of the gastro-intestinal tract for pharmaceutical and nutritional purposes Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of CHISA 2014/PRES 2014, pp. 2–2, CHISA 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, 2014.
A physiologically oriented mathematical model for the description of in vivo drug release and absorption Journal Article
In: ADMET & DMPK, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 80–97, 2014, ISSN: 1848-7718.
AN IN VITRO MODEL TO REPRODUCE THE MECHANICS AND THE ABSORPTION IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT Proceedings Article
In: 13th European Symposium on Controlled Drug Delivery, pp. 1–2, ESCDD 2014, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, 2014.
In-vitro reproduction of human physiology involved in bioaccessibility of drugs and nutrients Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of Conference of Food Engineering (CoFE), pp. 1–2, Conference of Food Engineering (CoFE), Omaha, Nebraska, 2014.