Laura Guastaferro

I am a young graduate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology and I am strongly motivated to learn more and broaden my technical knowledges in the pharmaceutical field and to develope new trasversal skills.

• Dynamicity
• Teamworking
• Proactivity
• Reliability
• Accuracy are my typical personal skills and describe my "modus operandi", in life and at work.

Furthermore, I have reaped the benefits of being a professional basketball player, which are teamwork skills, motivation and commitment.

I feed my mind with travelling, cinematography, music and cultural events.

• Working in a team-based environment within a two lines manufacturing department responsible for filling liquid and lyophilized products in vials
• Coordinating team’s workload and workflow on daily basis, ensuring project goals are met
• Ensuring aseptic technique is correctly applied in class A and B areas
• Taking ownership of work instructions or SOP updates
• Consulting with Engineering, Facilities and Maintenance on equipment or department issues
• Assessing impact of production issues and formally escalate when appropriate
• Supporting Quality departments on deviations and non-conforming materials
• Problem solving and implementing process improvement

Graduation in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology

Eleven months of research activity in Medicinal Chemistry at "Università degli Studi di Siena", aimed at drafting my experimental thesis entitled: "COR 1112 as antibiotic adjuvant: approaches to enhance water solubility".

Activity: synthesis, characterization and physicochemical properties optimization of pyrazolopyrimidinone-carboxamides as antibiotic adjuvants against clinically relevant Gram negative bacteria.

• Expanding knowledge in organic reactions and structural characterization techniques (MS, NMR,IR, UV-Vis)
• More or less thorough knowledge concerning antibiotics and antibiotic resistance
• Working in a multicultural research team
• Handling chemicals and the laboratory equipment
• Managing with effectiveness my time and my work
• Attending group meeting with students and professors