About

Fernanda Onofre, PhD, is Americas Regional Applications Leader at DuPont Nutrition and Bioscience. Dr Onofre joined FMC in 2010, transferring to DuPont in 2017, taking on the role of Americas Regional Applications Leader for Pharma Solutions, heading the Technical Teams and Applications Labs in both North and Latin America. During her career, Dr Onofre led the customer Technical Support and all Technical-related activities in the EMEA and LATAM regions. She holds a PhD and a MSc in Food Science from the University of Arkansas (US), where she worked with food ingredients in pharmaceutical applications. She is a licensed pharmacist, graduated from the Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil).

Contributions

GI/ORAL

POLYMER CHEMISTRY’S INFLUENCE ON CR TABLETS MANUFACTURED VIA DIRECT COMPRESSION

Nasrin Mahmoudi, Kevin McIntyre, Joseph Lee, Holly Bertrand, Yeli Zhang, Fernanda Onofre and Amina Faham investigate the effect of a simple direct compression method on controlled-release matrix tablet formulations.