About
João Pires is R&D Manager – Inhalation and Advanced Drug Delivery at Hovione and earned his PhD in the field of Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing, under the MIT Portugal Program, at Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal). In 2018, he joined Hovione as a Drug Product Development Scientist, leading process development for different administration routes, from early stage until commercial scale. Since 2021, he has been working as R&D Manager, leading the Process Development team in the Inhalation and Advanced Drug Delivery group.