Alvaro Goyanes PhD

Dr. Alvaro Goyanes is the Development Director and lead project researcher at FabRx. Alvaro holds a PhD in pharmaceutical technology and has more than 10 years’ experience in Pharmaceutics spanning Industry and Academia. He was one of the first researchers assessing opportunities of 3D printing using Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) to manufacture oral dosage forms and medical devices. Before moving to FabRx, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL School of Pharmacy researching about 3D printed medicines for oral drug delivery.

He led also formulation development projects for pharmaceutical companies and managed multiple research projects of MSc and Ph.D. students evaluating multiple technologies for drug delivery. Prior to this, he worked for 3 years as a Registered Pharmacy, thus has first-hand knowledge of the needs in terms of medicines in the community pharmacy.